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Digested week: BuzzBallz signed by Tory leader builds excitement for conference
Kemi Badenoch-autographed cocktail offered as raffle prize. Plus, Bruce Springsteen’s surprisingly normal nigh...
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‘A man threatened to shoot me’: the abuse pushing UK councillors out of politics
Exclusive: Survey finds 78% of councillors feel at risk in their roles, with 52% saying intimidation has risen...
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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over a...
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s g...
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Is the tie dead? Fashion connoisseurs hope not as House of Lords relaxes rules
Switch to ‘business attire’ is a sign of the times, but formal neckwear still has its place, say some of Savil...
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Addison Lee founder owes £20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin’s claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of when black holes ‘burp’
The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers disc...
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global...
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Scientists create mice with part-human brains
Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual dis...
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Plantwatch: The insect-eating alpine plant that proves Darwin was right
Study shows alpine plant traps and digests midges – just as the evolutionary biologist predicted back in 1875
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UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions
Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined...