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Most businesses won’t pay more national insurance. But the UK’s small employers still need support
There are nearly 5.5 million businesses in the UK. It may come as a surprise, however, to learn that most...
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Labour has bet big on green industrial policy. But there may be there cheaper ways to net zero
Labour’s first budget in 15 years included a highly anticipated change to the so-called fiscal rules which constrain how much...
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From a scream to a whisper – ‘quiet horror’ novels are making a comeback
Ever since its inception with Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), a delirious mixture of violent death and...
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the crown’s role in Indigenous rights in the Commonwealth
That the recent visit of King Charles to Australia – his first as the country’s sovereign – attracted protests will...
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Getting carbon capture right will be hard – but that doesn’t make it optional
The UK government has given the go-ahead to carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) schemes worth £22 billion (US$28.6 billion)....
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We’ve bred corals to better tolerate lethal heatwaves, but rapid climate action is still needed to save reefs
Our research group has bred corals able to better survive marine heatwaves. Our work, now published in Nature Communications, shows...
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Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both
Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal emits more...
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Odyssey by Stephen Fry – the tales of return from the Trojan war are charmingly retold but at an uncomfortable cost
Stephen Fry’s Odyssey is the final instalment in his retellings of Greek myth that began with Mythos. Here, Fry tells...
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the killing of Hassan Nasrallah leaves Hezbollah leaderless and vulnerable
The assassination of Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike on September 28 is a decisive blow – not...
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Keir Starmer’s party conference speech – what he said and what it meant
Prime Minister Keir Starmer was under immense pressure to announce some big policies in his 2024 party conference speech. Those...
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