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Nobody wants to hurt a child. The howl of pain, the tears, the look of betrayed shock all make it very hard to deliver a cherished small person to the...
Most pupils who received their GCSE results this week were in the penultimate year of primary school when Covid struck, disrupting their preparation...
There is something profoundly wrong when the company behind Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding paid more compensation to its shareholders than to...
For months health experts have warned that the scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could surpass the one that...
Interest in all things Jane Austen remains high, following the celebrations of her 250th anniversary. In September, the museum based in her former...
In November, Californians will vote on a one-off 5% levy on residents worth more than $1bn. The union-backed plan could raise $100bn, more than enough...
To win one gold medal is impressive. To win two indicates a certain relentlessness. To win four in the space of one remarkable week of athletics may...
The tragic death of Jason Arday raises serious questions about race, institutional authority and what happens to people in a society increasingly...
Almost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI bot, according to recent research, leading many to give up in frustration. As one...
In a short story called Career Move, published in the New Yorker in 1992, Martin Amis imagined a world in which screenwriters wrote for little...
Nigel Farage didn’t attend the count of the byelection he forced upon Clacton. Instead, Reform UK’s leader celebrated his win with supporters at a...
“I’d describe it as a magical eeriness.” Lisa Redfern’s description to the Guardian conveys the combination of beauty and wrongness that...
A strong set of A-level results should raise confidence in Britain’s future. These are difficult exams, and schools and colleges across England,...
Japan’s yen has slid back towards 160 to the dollar, despite last month’s extraordinary US-Japanese intervention. Traders are betting that its...
There are no votes in leniency for criminals, which is why oppositions demand harsher penalties and ministers acquiesce. It is a policy ratchet that...
As the huge societal ramifications of artificial intelligence have become clear, some of the tech industry’s most senior figures have taken to...
The wildfire that began on protected heathland in the New Forest in Hampshire on Sunday was reported to be under control on Tuesday. But with...
It is not yet clear to what extent Meta’s new smart glasses will live up to the nickname of “pervert glasses” – bestowed in recognition of the...
At the end of July, Donald Trump announced that a “monumental” US-backed deal had been struck on Gaza, securing the phased disarmament of Hamas in...
India is attempting to do something the world has never seen before. So claimed Niti Aayog, the government of India’s policy thinktank, earlier this...
After the playwright Tom Stoppard died last year, one of the most striking tributes to his work came from a clinical scientist. Michael Baum explained...
“How did you go bankrupt?” a character is asked in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. “Gradually, then suddenly” comes the reply....
Jason Arday’s resignation from the University of Cambridge on Wednesday marked a full stop of sorts, but not an end to the furore surrounding his...
When a serving Italian general published a far-right tract in 2023 entitled The World Turned Upside Down, a disciplinary inquiry swiftly followed....
The rise in children and young people with mental health problems makes this week’s announcement of a new network of community clinics in England...
For weeks now, anglophone cinephiles have been focusing their attention on the virtues and vices of Christopher Nolan’s $250m adaptation of The...
Kemi Badenoch has been clear about the qualifying criteria for prospective Conservative MPs. They must be “serious people who understand common...
“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote in The Listener in July 1945....
After early statements of intent on homelessness and social care, Andy Burnham capped his opening two weeks in office by addressing what one might...
There are few more vulnerable moments in life than the days before and after the loss of a loved one. The rituals of farewell surrounding a funeral...
At least 72 people are believed to have died late last week, most of them drowned or crushed as they joined tens of thousands of others in attempting...
Governments are told that public services must shrink because money is tight. Yet a new Tax Justice Network report says that countries could capture...
Compared with rising heat-related deaths, and devastating wildfires in the Cairngorms and Suffolk, the announcement that the Royal...
The iconic Lovell telescope, housed at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, has always expanded our view of the universe – from tracking the...
That England is among the rich world’s most centralised countries underpins Andy Burnham’s critique of the economic history of the past 40 years....
One incident has dominated this week’s sporting headlines, garnering even more column inches than Gianni Infantino’s apparent desire to sell the...
In Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so....
Like a sporting Dr Pangloss, Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, would like to persuade football followers that they are living in the best of all...
Andy Burnham is well qualified to speak on the subject of what can go wrong with social care policy. As health secretary in 2010, he proposed...
The roar of late-night traffic is not just annoying for those trying to sleep. It can also have profound effects on their health. A pioneering new...
“What if all cockroaches come together?” was the question that humbled India’s strongman prime minister, Narendra Modi. It was posted on X by...
Archaeologists believe the Upton Lovell Shaman, who lived in what is now Wiltshire 4,000 years ago, was an important religious leader and metalworker...
A new and ominous word has entered the vocabulary of firefighters struggling to cope with the vast wildfire sweeping through south-west France. A...
Even as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door to...
A lack of clear vision, low morale, dwindling popularity and financial shortfalls – this may sound like a description of the previous Labour...
Frogs; newts; small fish such as minnows and sticklebacks; dragonflies; water boatmen and water snails: these are just a few of the hundreds of animal...
Appropriately enough, Andy Burnham ended a week of political signalling and first impressions back in Manchester on Friday. At the offices of the new...
“Our ability to trust that our homes will keep us safe from the outside is under threat,” the geographer Sam Johnson-Schlee writes in Hot House,...
Europe is ageing at pace as birthrates fall and people live longer. A new report by the European Commission, published this month, notes that 2012...
The hundreds of millions who have built modern China from the ground up – sweeping its streets, labouring in its factories and ferrying its goods...
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