Month: June 2025

The UK’s warm homes plan has been saved – here’s how Labour can learn from a decade of failed insulation schemes

Labour will not cut the £13.2 billion warm homes plan, as some expected. But issues remain.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning

Nineteen Eighty-Four filled with references to sinking ships, drowning people and the dread of oceanic engulfment

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The critical response to Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful exposes pop’s gender double standards

Female artists continue to be pigeonholed, while their male counterparts are encouraged to spread their creative wings.

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Another public inquiry into institutional abuses – why they so often fail to deliver justice for victims

Public inquiries are severely limited in their capacity to produce meaningful, systemic and lasting change.

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China positions itself as a stable economic partner and alternative to ‘unpredictable’ Trump

China is busy building a greater role in international organisations as Trump stands back.

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How pterosaurs learned to fly: scientists have been looking in the wrong place to solve this mystery

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

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What could have caused the Air India crash? An expert examines the proposed failure scenarios

Various failure scenarios have been aired as the Boeing 787 crash investigation continues.

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How to make sure the new grooming gangs inquiry is the last

Victims of child sexual abuse have been let down by the justice system.

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