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Artist Lucy Sparrow’s 2016 exhibition Shoplifting, at London’s Lawrence Alkin Gallery, highlighted the most shoplifted items from UK supermarkets. PA Images/Alamy

Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’

The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
Since May 2024, an elected mayor of the north-east has been leading a new authority spanning Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham. Gary Calton/Alamy

Inequality is dividing England. Is devolution the answer?

Years of political turbulence, economic shocks and the failure to ‘level up’ as pledged have turned English devolution into a key political and constitutional issue

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