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Metropolitan policeman on duty in front of 10 Downing Street

No lectern and the promise of a ‘new model’ – what we can learn from Andy Burnham’s speech

July 21, 2026

A pile of folded newspapers on a table

How the British press has undermined the ECHR over many years: new study

July 14, 2026

Robot Dogs at the World Cup: Safer Crowds, Smarter Technology and Privacy by Design

June 15, 2026

Low angle view of a road crossing the equator line in Uganda, marked by a yellow centre line leading toward green hills and a rural settlement.

Are Uganda’s environmental impact reports just a box‑ticking exercise? What a study of 108 projects reveals

June 9, 2026

Sonny Rollins at Detroit Jazz Festival

Sonny Rollins the last great of the jazz era dies

June 2, 2026

Image if Miles Davis taken from a portrait of Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Miles Davis, and Duke Jordan, Three Deuces, New York, N.Y.

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is the highest selling jazz record of all time – he thought it was a failure

June 1, 2026

Three little boys shelter from the sun under a battered umbrella during London's summer heatwave.

How London, Paris and New York coped in the heatwaves of the past

May 22, 2026

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester

Andy Burnham: what has made the king of the north so popular?

May 20, 2026

British Postage Stamp showing The Let It Be Album Cover showing the Four Members of the Beatles Pop Group

Beatles museum to open on seven‑storey site (and rooftop) of band’s last gig

May 13, 2026

Road photos from the highways of western Iran while traveling to the western cities of Iran

Where Iranians are going under fire – a real‑time picture of displacement

May 5, 2026