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New ONS data indicate that the UK’s poorest households are doing better and the richest are worse off. But this isn’t the full picture.
Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of imaginary languages’ most successful proponents – yet their aims were very different.
MPs have proposed Britain follows Canada’s model allowing regions to decide how many immigrants they let in.
As a British judge has just discovered, swearing’s fine … until you do it in the wrong place.
Companies and institutions shouldn’t make it so hard for people to enjoy their right to privacy.
Nurses have taken on a surprising number of tasks that were once the preserve of doctors. And they do them exceptionally well.
They may make you feel squeamish but maggots have some incredible medicinal benefits.
The plan is to start again in 2017, but the Labour leader’s key messages are still too vague.
The market for sythnetic cannabinoids, or spice, shows no sign of decreasing.
Searching for a sensitive route to the practical aftermath of tragedy.
Robots may match humans in recognising different types of emotions in the next few decades.
The species died out long before humans could properly study it.
Academics have little confidence in the current higher education reforms.
The great polymath’s late output reads like a manual for artists saying goodbye.
People with dementia are prone to getting lost. Thankfully, there’s technology to help find them.
A cryptic part of DNA helps keep a species’ mutations in check until they become useful.
Presenting violence of any sort as a cultural issue does not help prevent it.
You can slash your meat intake and still easily meet your requirements.
Spending a year living life as David Bowie gave me a better understanding of the pop icon’s mind and work.
It’s a nice idea: a society where people are judged on merit alone. But it remains a fiction.
What the Obama administration achieved with Iran deserves great credit. But can it endure?
A political scandal has laid bare the irreconcilable differences between to two main parties in the power-sharing agreement.
A new study examines the benefits of cramming all of your weekly exercise in at the weekend.
Copeland has been Labour for more than 30 years, but these are not normal times and this is no ordinary by-election.