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Hyacinth macaw
Face it, I'm gorgeous. I doubt if there's anything living more gorgeous than me: a full metre of glorious blue from beak to tail.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
The Observer
To solve the housing crisis, parties must be willing to take some electoral pain
A renter buying an average first home in London needs more than £65,000 in savings and a salary of £120,000.
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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The lab detective: how genetic breakthrough freed a mother jailed for killing her children
Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison until Carola Vinuesa uncovered the truth in a drop of blood. By Rachel Sylvester
10+ min |
July 20, 2025
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From Watergate to Covid, this is why so many of us vanish down rabbit holes
What do we mean when we talk about conspiracy theories? It isn’t simply about holding the idea that there are sinister, secret forces doing shady things.
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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Hezbollah must decide: disarm, fight on or turn fully to politics
Devastated by war with Israel and with its key allies in disarray, the Lebanese militant group is isolated and facing the most significant choice of its 40-year history, writes
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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Three years on, the honeymoon is over for Poland's Ukrainian refugees
More than a million people fleeing the war have brought many benefits, but a painful history between the two nations and the far-right is stirring divisions.
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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Deny, delete and delay: the secrecy operation inside special forces
After allegations emerged of unarmed men and boys being murdered in Afghanistan, the special forces closed ranks when the military police investigated
9 min |
July 20, 2025
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Bacteria know no borders we must stay in the fight
The reported cessation of the Fleming Fund represents a catastrophic abandonment of Britain's leadership on one of the gravest threats to global health security.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
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Video killed the radio star, but who killed the WTF!
The fabled music video director Tim Pope is to appear at the North Berwick arts festival, Fringe by the Sea, next month.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
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Wellies, worms and birdsong are vital to child mental health, writes the ZSL's
We have a problem. Young people’s mental health has reached a crisis point. Outdoor time at school has halved in a generation, according to a recent report from the Play Commission.
1 min |
July 20, 2025
The Observer
The Epstein files: Trump is trapped by the conspiracy theory he once gloried in
The US president's closest aides loved to accuse Democrats in the Biden team of covering the child sex-trafficker's tracks. Yet in power, they now call the client list a hoax. The Maga movement is not buying it, report Xavier Greenwood and Fred Harter
5 min |
July 20, 2025
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The prizes and perils from sucking up (or standing up) to Trump
Stand up or suck up? There are two choices world leaders face in dealing with Donald Trump, and last week provided supporters of both theses with the perfect argument for why they are right.
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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In her genes? The woman who is giving DNA analysis a reboot
After paying $305m, Anne Wojcicki is back at the helm of 23andMe - the genetic data company she cofounded, ran, then left bankrupt. Can she convince the doubters who say she can't lead the business into its new, nonprofit phase?
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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Tech giants rush to secure energy for Al datacentres
Mark Zuckerberg said last week that his company Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build datacentres, some of which would rival the size of Manhattan.
1 min |
July 20, 2025
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Mortgage rules shake-up has an instant effect for first-time buyers
When Amber Leaux graduated from university in 2018, she moved back into her parents' council flat in north London to save for her first home.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
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Starmerish diplomacy is earning global respect – but Britain remains unconvinced
While foreign leaders warm to a steady, pragmatic prime minister, voters at home are waiting to be impressed
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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The show's over: Stephen Colbert is cancelled ... and so is satire in America
Jacob Weisberg unpicks the sorry tale behind a court case, the payment of $16m to Trump's future library and the end of The Late Show
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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Big four cut jobs for graduates as AI adds to consulting crisis
Accountancy giants are reducing their university intake and workforces while offshoring roles, as the disruption caused by advanced AI begins to take effect.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
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Women are falling further behind as pension gap widens
Women are saving roughly half the amount men are putting aside for their retirement, with the pensions gender gap widening over the last five years.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
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Beaten by court backlogs and conviction myths, rape victims are giving up on justice
Martha Gill
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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Starmer's next big battle: reforming the system for special needs children
Provision for pupils needing extra help could turn into a 'mess like welfare' if parents are ignored, Lib-Dem leader Ed Davey warns
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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'Controlling the narrative' always fails
It is a cliche that a cover-up is usually worse than the cock-up it is attempting to conceal.
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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Are we supposed to believe no one noticed this email for 18 months?
Which of us has not sent an embarrassing email to the wrong person? Those of us who have struggled with Excel know just how easy it is to clip and send the wrong part of the data set.
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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Fauja Singh
Long-distance runner who became a sporting legend after competing in his first marathon aged 89
4 min |
July 20, 2025
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Labour must exploit the advantage of power — or lose it
The government is listing in the water. Yet it is vital not just that it stays afloat, but it succeeds. In fairness it is doing many of the right things - the NHS 10-year plan, a clever industrial strategy, raising public investment and getting closer to the EU on defence and security. It also had to raise tax big time, and from whatever source the impact would have been economically depressive.
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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Gone rogue
The superinjunction around the Afghan data leak reveals a culture of impunity at the special forces
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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Hard times and migrant fears lure voters to jump on Japan-first bandwagon
A far-right party leader who models himself on Donald Trump and rails against foreigners is expected to win seats in today's election.
3 min |
July 20, 2025
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Markets vote for Fed chair Powell
Conspiracy theories that the US Federal Reserve is a tool of the “deep state” have percolated since at least the 1990s, when pseudoscientist G. Edward Griffin wrote The Creature from Jekyll Island. More recently Curtis Yarvin, an influential far-right thinker, has questioned whether Fed independence is a good idea — despite evidence that countries with independent central banks have lower inflation and interest rates.
1 min |
July 20, 2025
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It's great to have a US-style summer jobs scheme but it lacks scale and ambition
I started work, aged 14, paid £3 an hour in today's money, for Saturday mornings in a shop. At 16, I worked a full day, as did most of my friends. We also worked every summer. This was normal in the 1980s.
2 min |
July 20, 2025
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Teach First's brand must be protected, say headteachers
More than 100 headteachers are urging the government to protect Teach First, the education charity that recruits high-flying graduates to work in schools in deprived areas.
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