A ‘hard Brexit’ appears increasingly likely.
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American companies still face enormous uncertainty about how they’ll be doing business in the UK and EU in the coming years, particularly as the April 12 Brexit deadline draws closer.
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School textbooks from Germany deal with Europe in much greater detail and with more of a positive angle than those published in England.
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In England, one in fifty children cycle to school. But if English children cycled at the same rates as Dutch children, this could rise to two in five.
The family that votes together remains together?
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Westminster has consistently disregarded the concerns of the devolved administrations over Brexit.
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Inequality is one of the major issues of the modern age – but understanding where it happens is harder than you think.
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Regional deprivation is causing thousands of northerners – especially men – to die young each year.
Theresa May likely wants to escape this room.
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The UK’s agonizing efforts to find a path out of the European Union is beginning to look a lot like a game or riddle with no solution – and certainly no winners.
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Case management systems used by GPs are supposed to help those at risk.
For centuries, Pulter’s manuscript lay untouched at the University of Leeds’ Brotherton Library.
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In a time when women were expected to be silent, no topic was off limits for Pulter, who penned verses about politics, science and loss. Her manuscript was just published in a free digital archive.
The crisis enveloping the British government started when Britons voted “yes” to leaving the European Union in 2016.
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As England agonises over Brexit, divisions have emerged in other parts of the UK, especially in Northern Ireland and independent-minded Scotland.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Glasgow Pride, 2018.
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By changing the curriculum, Scotland acknowledges that society has always been diverse – and that will help more young people feel accepted.
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Scotland tends to take a more progressive approach to inequality, but how is it actually faring compared to the rest of the UK?
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Record numbers of families rent privately in England. But the law has not kept a fair balance between landlord and tenant rights.
The ‘north’.
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Northern dialects are actually close to original English – despite what southerners might say.
Naloxone counteracts the effects of an overdose.
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Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
Knife crime is on the rise in England and Wales.
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Distrust in the police is a surprisingly central factor when people arm themselves illegally.
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Children in the north of England are more likely to finish school with poorer grades and are less likely to go on to further education.
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Medieval cathedrals were fund raising powerhouses – it’s time to let history live again.
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The Great Exhibition of the North is putting paid to tired stereotypes of the region – but now, the North itself is becoming divided.
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Sporting success depends on strong squad bonds.