National security of all countries at risk due to climate crisis, UK foreign secretary warns
"National security is the next frontier of the fight for climate action; the scenarios once of science fiction are now regular occurrences in the daily news," Miliband told the Guardian before his speech to world leaders…
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Governments 'asleep at the wheel' over social care, says head of review
As a result, she suggested a postcode lottery had developed with different levels of services available depending on where people live. And she also highlighted the fees that self-funders pay, saying they were much…
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Trump’s war with Iran has been terrible for us all but wanting the Ayatollahs gone is a noble cause
The Iranian regime – we don’t call it a government because to do so would be to misdescribe the bizarre and opaque way myriad factions in their system work – wants to hurt you. That’s the simple truth The Iranian…
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For Trump, Musk and Farage, the message is the same: voters don’t want to be hijacked by billionaires | Rafael Behr
In fact, there is no one richer. As the wealthiest of the US's tech oligarchs Musk could afford to blow huge sums on a failed bid to prop up Republican candidates in Texas, his adoptive home state, in last week's midterm…
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Katie Lam: Burnham’s devolution is just a power grab
For somebody who talks so much about devolution, Andy Burnham is remarkably willing to trample over local democracy when people don’t agree with him. He’s already announced that, in areas which have voted to keep council…
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Emmanuel Igwe: Kemi must still build trust on welfare
In his speech, he stated that nothing would be said of welfare reform until the Timms Review is released this autumn. After that, the Government will respond before the end of the year with a white paper with legislation…
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Magnus Taylor: Let’s return to a pen and paper education
While many European countries, especially the Nordics who led the charge on ‘Edtech’, are now becoming digitally minimalist in their classrooms , Britain is still pressing forward with putting more and more technology…
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Whitehall is too ‘tame, reactive and risk-averse’, says UK’s top civil servant
She said fundamental reform of the civil service to improve productivity was essential given the "tight fiscal context". Ministers are grappling with how to deliver higher defence spending in future while protecting the…
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Labour MPs raise concerns Burnham’s 10-year-plan will not be radical enough
Members of the group say they are particularly concerned about the prime minister's commitment to reviving Britain's heavy industries, which they say are being crushed by high energy prices and a lack of government…
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Acquitted 'China spy' tells BBC: I was fall guy for security services but also naive
The messages show how Cash's friend in China, Chris Berry - with whom he had been sharing information - dramatically described a "secret" meeting between Berry and a high-ranking Chinese official. Berry said he had been…
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