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The Tory letter that forced Sunak’s hand
on climate change

PM’s watered-down goals closely match list of Tory MP demands delivered after Uxbridge by-election.

the news matrix

new audio series

Survey shows why Liz Truss was a winner – for the Labour Party

Fortieth annual British Social Attitude Survey reveals increasing acceptance for same-sex relations, abortion and women’s presence in the workforce.

Latest attitude survey shows Britain has become more socially liberal over the last four decades

mental health crisis

“A national scandal.”

Judge reluctantly returns distressed 13 year-old to the care of her family after nine months in solitary confinement. No appropriate facility has room for her.

How Britain’s vulnerable children are being abandoned

15 May 2023

Long stories short

• News Corp announced Rupert Murdoch stepped down as chairman (more below).

• Mick Jagger joined President Macron and the King and Queen for a dinner of Bress poultry in champagne.

• A Michigan woman had to be hauled out of an outdoor toilet after lowering herself into it to retrieve her Apple watch.

media

Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of Fox and News Corp

Fox News’s relationship with the truth reportedly cost Murdoch $787 million. This is the inside story of what happened

13 March 2023

“He and his son have poisoned the atmosphere… and that’s a bad legacy.”

Barry Diller, founder of Fox Broadcasting Company speaking at the Sir Harry Evans Summit

the royals

William and Rupert: Did Prince’s secret deal help fund the Earthshot prize?

An associate of Prince Harry claims Rupert Murdoch’s media business secretly paid the heir to the British throne £1 million or more to settle a phone-hacking claim.

Harry calls changing the media landscape in Britain his “life’s work”. Why?

13 February 2023

The octopus’s world

Embattled Odey’s first admission: I did grab employee’s breasts

Fund manager says assault took place after he “had just come back from having two hours [of] canal root fillings and was under heavy medication.”

How serious money, polite society and the law enabled Crispin Odey

3 July 2023

india and the world

Canada’s stand over Sikh murder forces West to confront Modi’s ugly truth

20 September 2023

Baku’s bombs

Azerbaijan demands Armenian separatists surrender as 32 die

20 September 2023

uk elections

ID checks cost 14,000 the chance to vote in local elections

20 September 2023

long shot

Liz Truss seeks a political comeback

19 September 2023

lording over it

Charlotte Owen’s elevation to the Lords is hard to explain, but speaks volumes about how British democracy works.

ecology

What can the story of one dying river and the campaign to save it teach us about how to value nature?

sport

Britain’s biggest match-fixing scandal in over a decade starts in a snooker hall in Sheffield – and ends in a black market in south-east Asia.

Martha’s rule

Is the NHS “fobbing off” the mother of a girl who died of sepsis?

Had doctors intervened sooner, Martha Mills might still be alive. Now her parents are calling for a new rule to give families the right to a second opinion.

war in ukraine

The Ukrainians rooting for Russia

human rights

Disabled women are being excluded from essential services

online hate

How I found the person behind QAnon

true justice

Three doors down

A mother. A murder. An innocent man wrongly convicted. And a 30-year search for justice.

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Tortoise Quarterly | Edition 13

Faith

From Xavier Greenwood’s account of converting to Judaism to Rosie Blunt’s story about a lost religious masterpiece, many of the pieces in Tortoise’s thirteenth book of long reads follow a recurring theme: faith.

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