In this competitive market, gen Z has started to turn to untraditional ways to land a job – including dating apps

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The Impact Economy Collective brings together leading organisations across philanthropy, impact investing, and purpose-driven business to partner with UK government. We mobilise capital, expertise,…

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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Public design leaders David Singer, Lucy Kimbell and Jeff Allen report on how designers envision the future.

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When Romantic artists turned personal feeling into creativity

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Guidelines for leaders shaping perception, decision-making and system formation

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In the late 1920’s, Einstein and Bohr were engaged in a series of famous debates about the future of physics, in which Einstein insisted…

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The reopened Train de Merveilles route takes passengers from the glamour of Nice to a grandiose alpine landscape

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Policy professionals spend a lot of time creating space for others to learn, collaborate and solve problems. We don’t always create enough space for ourselves. That’s why I’m excited about the first...

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The sweet drink is a staple in Spain and Mexico, and it’s being served around the UK as an iced beverage and even in desserts. Here’s how to drink it

The Yorkshire Dales Explorer is a little-known alternative to the Settle to Carlisle rail route, and takes you deep into wonderful walking country

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Whether it’s the traditional boiled diet, a dental epidemic or white-winged extremism, Patrick Gathara explains why political turmoil is engulfing the UK

I’ve been spending more time recently thinking about gardening than strategy documents.

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There’s something about a Bank Holiday that disrupts the usual rituals. I turned my alarm off, I was able to have breakfast in the garden…

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There are few places where history can be felt more powerfully than these pathways, walked by explorer, author and TV presenter Nicholas Crane

In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner

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Introducing Morgan Maps — a tool for mapping digital decisions in public services

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The illusion of plenty ends the same way every great oil shock has ended: at the moment when the buffer everyone assumed would appear on…

I kept thinking about a line from Simone de Beauvoir while reading an old notebook recently. It wasn’t a famous passage, just fragments she…

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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

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What “investing in the human side” actually means

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