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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
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    Surge in overspending by British holidaymakers abroad

    The gap between budgets planned and money spent is at a decade high

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  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    LexUK arts
    The case for rethinking UK arts funding is getting stronger Premium content

    Ending of Baille Gifford’s partnerships with literary festivals is another blow for the sector

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  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Baillie Gifford and Edinburgh Book Festival end partnership after activist pressure

    Protesters targeted firm’s purported links to Israel and the fossil fuel industry

    Visitors to the annual Edinburgh Book Festival enjoying the sunshine in Charlotte Square
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Funding cuts have halved number of adult learners in England since 2010

    Research highlights growing skills divide between richer and poorer parts of the country

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  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Frances Crook
    The prisons crisis risks safety and drains funds from the public realm

    Challenges in jails, courts and probation are well known, but no politician has the courage to come up with a plan

    Wandsworth prison in south-west London
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Coronavirus
    Nearly 4,000 convicted of Covid rule breaches in England since curbs ended

    Calls for amnesty intensify as total guilty verdicts over pandemic regulations in England top 27,000

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  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    News in-depthUK infected blood scandal
    ‘We are not expendable’: UK infected blood victims await justice

    Final report of public inquiry will seek to bring closure to dark chapter of British medical history next week

    Dena Peacock
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Is there a middle way on children and smartphones? This researcher thinks so

    Social psychologist Sonia Livingstone says there are alternatives to banning the young from social media

    A portrait of Sonia Livingstone
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Ella Risbridger
    Why we need feuding families in our lives

    Scheming sons and warring sisters give us a narrative to help interpret our own clan tangles

    Jessica, Nancy, Diana, Unity and Pamela Mitford in 1935
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    John Gapper
    British pubs are recovering from years of closing time

    A revenue revival and the reopening of some locals show that an old institution is adapting

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  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Garrick Club votes to allow women members for the first time

    London institution reverses 200-year-old policy after members say position is untenable without change

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  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Cost of living crisis
    Britons avoid the pub as cost of living weighs on leisure spending

    Deloitte survey shows people opting to spend less money on social drinking than at any time since lockdown

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  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
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    England has highest rates of child alcohol consumption, WHO finds

    Global health experts call for curbs on online marketing to protect teens from marketing of ‘harmful products’

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  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
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    News updates from April 24: Meta shares fall after earnings; Spain’s PM considers quitting
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
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    UK creatives warn ‘superpower’ status at risk without investment

    Artists and executives call on next government to focus on ‘reinvigorating our international reputation’

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  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    The economics of running

    Does a hotter economy really make you faster?

    Ann Kiernan illustration of runners and other people participating in sport
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Quarter of UK children aged 5-7 own smartphones, regulator finds

    Ofcom report reinforces online safety concerns as social media apps show significant growth among youngest

  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Jennifer Dixon
    An election manifesto for the NHS — and a healthy economy

    A population equivalent in size to Greater Manchester is not working due to ill health, at a huge and avoidable cost

    An operation takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham
  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    UK crime
    Dozens of murder and rape convictions may face new DNA testing

    Jailing of innocent man for 17 years leads to review by CCRC of thousands of cases in light of advances in forensic technology

    Andrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, reads a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    Criminalising free speech only leads in one direction

    Scotland’s new Hate Crimes Act is an Orwellian nightmare

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of wooden hands pointing at a man with his head taped with ‘police crime scene’ tape, and a danger zone road sign above his head also with police tape.
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Scottish politics
    Scottish police receive 7,000 hate crime complaints in first week of new law

    ‘Substantial increase’ in reports since contentious law challenged by JK Rowling was enacted on April 1

    Members of the public walk past a hate crime billboard in Glasgow on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    National Health Service
    Sunak urges ‘extreme caution’ after review criticises NHS gender identity care

    PM’s intervention comes after report finds ‘remarkably weak evidence’ surrounding medical interventions

    Rishi Sunak
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Retail sector
    Assaulting retail staff to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales

    Intense campaigning by sector for more support leads to announcement by Rishi Sunak

    Police arrest a shoplifter in Oxford Street, central London
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Recreational drugs
    Lethal ‘tranq’ has ‘penetrated’ illicit drug market in UK

    Xylazine, commonly used to sedate animals, found cut with heroin, counterfeit tablets and cannabis vapes, study finds

    A bottle of Xylazine with its box and syringe
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Assisted dying: an idea whose time has come

    The rights of the terminally ill to choose a better death need careful consideration

    Close up of son holding his mothers hands in hospital
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