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Devoting all energies to fight over an imaginary border deflects attention from the real issues.
Martin Luther has always given the country a chance to examine itself. Half a millennium on, the picture is more complex than ever.
Both systems are dangerous in the wrong hands.
Unpicking the baffling case of how one of Africa’s dictators became the world’s top ambassador for non-communicable diseases – at least for a while.
Specialist courts and judges could ensure that key laws protecting the environment are upheld. But the Scottish government has rejected the idea
The Spanish government is dealing with the Catalonian secession movement in entirely the wrong way. But what would getting it right look like?
Why do roboticists dream of electric women?
In the wake of the #MeToo campaign we need to build cultures that do not tolerate any level of harassment at work.
Is the 61% spike in the price of Brazil nuts this year because we’re going nuts for nuts?
Palau has banned commercial fishing in most of its waters – while encouraging more foreign visitors.
Most people’s shortbread-tin ideas about the Highlands and Islands are missing a key traditional ingredient.
Four decades after the release of punk’s most famous album it remains a classic moment in popular culture.
Many parents may insist on their child wearing headgear in the belief they are reducing the injury risk, when in fact the opposite could be true.
Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
A new method has been developed to find objects that land at sea using underwater sounds.
Meet Jakob Fugger, the man who underwrote the ambition of power-hungry medieval Princes.
New research tries to suggest mothers’ responses are pre-programmed, but there’s a problem with the evidence.
Cladoxylopsid trees were hugely complex and very different to those we have now.
The UK has the highest rates of self-harm in Europe.
Is there light at the end of the Brexit talks tunnel?
The dark sheep of the Brontë family found his way into the sisters’ work.
People working in caring professions are not superhuman.
Kuwait has first-hand experience of how financial and political shocks can stifle investor confidence in the entire region.
A lurch to the right in central Europe runs into a familiar obstacle: the tricky maths of coalition.