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Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · Episode

Solar farms overtook coal plants in July to become ​China's top source of installed power ‌capacity, state-run media reported on Tuesday, although solar still lags well behind coal in terms of ​power ...

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

Regarding that Economist article ...

Journal club: Judd et al 2026 -- a surprising result about natural selection in recessive genes

Abstract. Liberals claim that globalization has led to fragmentation and decentralized networks of power relations. This does not explain how states increasingly “weaponize interdependence” by leverag...

Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.

Toyota's Solid-State Battery Is the Real Deal — But It Won't Reach Your Driveway Until 2027

Andy Burnham has promised nothing short of the end of “forty years of neoliberalism”. That begs the question: what is neoliberalism, really? A set of ideas, a policy paradigm, or something else? As p...

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Burnham should promote a broader conception of advanced manufacturing that goes beyond frontier technologies

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

Iran has struck Amazon data centres four times since March; Ukraine is bombing a Russian e-commerce warehouse chain. The Overton window on legitimate targets has moved.

A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.

It appears that Britain’s Neet problem is just one manifestation of wider epidemiological and psychosocial trends that...

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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