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COP27 and warming targets

November 9, 2022

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Gender diversity reforms have helped UK company boards, but they are failing in other countries – new research explains why

November 1, 2022

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EU border agency Frontex accused of covering up human rights violations in Greece – the allegations explained

October 18, 2022

How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

October 14, 2022

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How many work projects are too many? Here’s why you should tell your boss to stop at five

October 13, 2022

Why wandering albatrosses get divorced – new research

October 4, 2022

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey

Bank of England bonds rescue has two ugly implications: more inflation and an even weaker pound

October 3, 2022

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government? The view from the party conference in Liverpool

September 27, 2022

UK Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris (second left) and Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker (far right) at a service in Belfast, with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin (far left) and UK foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney (second right)

Why Chris Heaton-Harris and Steve Baker mean instability for Northern Ireland

September 21, 2022

Jean Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard: how his prickly fragmented filmmaking asked all the right questions

September 15, 2022