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  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    Politicians are unhealthily obsessed with getting to zero

    The key to making sensible policy is to be honest about the trade-offs involved

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Environment
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    Decision criticised by Greenpeace UK, while retailer body warns postponed deadline still ‘incredibly challenging’

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Data PointsFederica Cocco
    The UK’s adoption system is in peril

    Services for the most vulnerable in society are being undone by funding cuts and collapsing social care infrastructure

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    LGBT+
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    Move likely to anger Holyrood though London set to bring forward long-delayed plans to ban conversion therapy

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Laura Bates
    Stopping misogyny shouldn’t just be about Andrew Tate

    Schools and parents must do more than respond to the influencer after the fact

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
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    Former LGBT+ adviser warns Sunak against blocking Scottish gender bill

    Iain Anderson says move being considered by UK prime minister would hit country’s global reputation

  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
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    Welby apologises for ‘past wrongs’ as report finds institution benefited from enslavement

  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
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    NAO report highlights ‘significant gaps’ in understanding of scale of problem

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
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    What is an ethnic minority anyway?

    An individual’s self-declared status is ultimately secondary to how states choose to identify them

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    Sinister curbs on the freedom to protest are wrong

    Some activists are playing straight into the hands of a British government bent on introducing draconian new laws

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    Data show sectors’ contribution to economy remains below 2019 levels while personal wellbeing has also suffered

  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
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    Cursing may cause offence but we would be a lot worse off without it

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
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    First non-white occupant of Downing Street marks a major milestone for community that migrated from east African nations

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    Lawyers at Hogan Lovells work for free to help struggling Londoners to secure welfare

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  • Friday, 30 September, 2022
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    Cultural project is product of government attempts to stimulate post-crash economy

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    Leicester’s communal violence reverberates across continents

    UK’s first big clashes between young Hindus and Muslims caught authorities off-guard

  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
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    UK employers urged to give workers early pay boost

    Highest-ever increase in voluntary ‘living wage’ brought forward because of cost of living crisis

  • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
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    In the Queen’s queue, the journey matters as much as the destination

    Most British queues have something inequitable at their heart: the line to pay respects to the late monarch is different

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