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Social contagion can help explain falling birth rates — and offers a way out of the demographic trap

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On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Chancellor John Healey is looking for revenues in next month’s Budget to compensate for hit from higher borrowing costs due to Iran war

consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.

A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving

Is your phone in your hand? You’re using a datacentre. Yes, datacentres also host AI, but we can’t live without them

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The Guardian reported yesterday that: A lifeboat station on the south coast of England near the spot where far-right activists tried to stop asylum seekers landing has been forced to temporarily clos...

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Economists urge John Healey to press Bank to change policy that is costing the exchequer billions of pounds

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Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

RNLI lifeboat launches across the UK were showcased at Cromer Lifeboat Day, highlighting water safety and coastguard teamwork.

As the FT has reported this morning: On Saturday, people dressed in black and wearing scarves and balaclavas blocked roads near the Port of Dover, which is England’s main hub for ferries to France, di...

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Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector

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The Prime Minister misunderstands exactly why four decades of neoliberalism have failed the UK, writes Simon Nixon

England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...

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The number of known promoters and suppliers of tax avoidance schemes in the UK has increased by 34% in the last year from 137 businesses to 183* (as of June

A consultation closing this Wednesday aims to end "exploitative" zero-hours contracts. But are such contracts exploitative? By design?

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