Gearing up for Brexit.
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It’s unlikely the next budget will do much to address the UK’s failure to raise money from corporation taxes.
On the edge.
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Unemployment levels are low, but many people are being pushed into inadequately paid jobs by a punitive benefit system and lack of choice.
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It is worth remembering that sleep ‘crises’ are far from new.
A display at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.
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What does society want and need from the arts and humanities?
Charles Manson: cult leader extraordinaire.
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Charles Manson, who has died aged 83, was a cult leader par excellence.
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Letting Fukushima residents stay in their homes would have only cost them an average of three months’ life expectancy.
Don’t jump to conclusions: protesters in Kashmir with a mocked-up IS flag.
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Just because a group waves the IS flag or claims to be its friend doesn’t mean a global insurgency is underway.
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The Saint Regis Mohawk tribe has struck a multimillion-dollar deal with Allergan. But the deal may do more harm than good.
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Conventional approaches to assessing the impact of cameras on collisions may be overoptimistic.
It will certainly make you better at doing sudoku.
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New studies investigate whether music, chess, video games or puzzles can make us smarter.
Malcolm Young: the engine room of AC/DC.
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As guitarist in Australia’s most successful band, Young provided the driving rhythm that underpinned AC/DC’s heavy rock sound.
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Postnatal depression in men is starting to be recognised, but mental health services aren’t geared up to help this group.
Step this way …
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The late QC Jeremy Hutchinson only got away with it because the prosecution weren’t quicker on the uptake.
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All you need to know about illegal cigarettes and tobacco.
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German chancellor is running out of options to form a viable government.
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The murderous cult leader’s notoriety has not diminished over four decades in a US jail.
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Taking back control only means something if you’ve got the money to deliver on your promises.
Cat’s Brain long barrow is near the more famous Stonehenge (pictured) but predates it by hundreds of years.
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An archaeological dig at Cat’s Brain has unearthed a remarkable insight into life in Britain before Stonehenge.
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A history of Ayurvedic medical concepts is being exhibited at London’s Wellcome Collection.
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Salvator Mundi is the most expensive painting ever to be sold. It remains to be seen who bought it and where it will be kept.
Billie Jean.
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Sportswomen still struggle for attention and too many girls are discouraged from taking sport seriously.
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It’s not all bad news at Bonn – with low carbon precincts, living infrastructure and urban networks, cities are leading the charge against climate change.
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What if governments paid everyone a certain amount of money to cover basic needs?
The classroom of the future.
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The future of education is in the clouds.
Soviet troops advancing at Stalingrad.
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Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.