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    AI: The new climate crisis we’re not talking about
  AI used to be the domain of overcaffeinated futurists and Silicon Valley slide decks, a glossy mirage hovering somewhere between Elon Musk’s Twitter...
      
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    An autumn of discontent for PM and Chancellor… and taxpayers
  If the Prime Minister and Chancellor were hoping for a period of respite during the Summer Recess, yesterday’s forecast from the respected think tank...
      
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    Degrees of risk: The policy shifts impacting student housing
  You wouldn’t necessarily think it based on some of the headlines we see – for example, a 14% rise in US student applications to UK universities (UCAS)...
      
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    Heathrow’s DCO journey restarts
  Last Friday, Heathrow Airport submitted its £49  billion “shovel‑ready ” expansion proposal . This includes a third north‑west runway, a T5X terminal...
      
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    Scrapping statutory public notices could pay for innovation in community engagement
  The Chancellor called time on statutory local newspaper notices for the licensed trade last week, telling The Mail on Sunday that they present an...
      
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    His Majesty’s official opposition – the Labour backbenches?
  Back in June 2024, before the general election, Robert Shrimsley, chief political editor of the Financial Times, stated that “in a landslide Keir...
      
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    Can ’Your Party’ become the Reform UK of the left?
  After much speculation and a fairly shaky launch, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have finally confirmed the creation of a new left-wing political...
      
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    A new breed of shareholder activists
  The next major activist campaign is just as likely to start from ‘internet beef’ as it is from Wall Street. The good old days – if you can call them...
      
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