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Can the UK energy market take another geopolitical shock?
In a global system still nursing economic scar tissue from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the newest rupture in the world’s most strategically...
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Twelve months of trash: Can Labour survive after Birmingham’s bin-strike anniversary?
Tomorrow marks an anniversary few people in Britain’s second city will be toasting: one full year since bin workers began an allout strike that has...
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Anthropic vs the Pentagon: a defining contest over who sets the rules for AI
There is a quote popularly attributed to Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where...
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When campaigns go viral
The Texas Senate Democratic primary between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett has become one of the clearest examples yet of how digital campaigning...
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Iran conflict: Trusted insights and perspectives
As we enter day six of the conflict in the Middle East, finding trusted and insightful sources of information and analysis is more important than ever...
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Devolution cannot arrive quickly enough for transport reform
A futuristic Waymo driverless taxi welcomed visitors at the entrance to the Interchange transport conference in Manchester this week, its all-seeing...
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Will geothermal energy find itself in hot water?
You’d be forgiven for missing the latest cab off the renewable energy rank, as the UK’s first geothermal plant was turned on last week In Cornwall. It...
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The Green Party doesn’t sound very green lately
Much has been said already about the by-election last week in Gorton and Denton, in which the Green Party candidate won with 40.7% of the vote...
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