Giles grew up mainly in Africa, studied history and worked as a Times correspondent in LA, Moscow and Washington. He was the Times‘ chief leader-writer for three years before joining Tortoise in 2018. Along the way he’s written a few books including Spitfire Women of World War II, Bridge of Spies, and a biography of snow.
Giles Whittell
Deputy Editor

“No news organisation was able to anticipate or explain the great voter rebellions of 2016 — the Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Trump as president in the US. Tortoise was set up to try to do a better job of getting at the truth behind the news. That’s what we’re doing. Every day it feels worthwhile, and it’s great to see that more and more members feel the same way.”
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Tuesday 21 November 2023
12:00-13:00 GMTDo airlines not like passengers?
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Tuesday 17 October 2023
12:00-13:00 BSTMusk: the whiff of trouble
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Wednesday 25 October 2023
18:30-19:45 BSTThe News Meeting Live with Matt Chorley
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Wednesday 27 September 2023
18:30-19:45 BSTThe News Meeting Live with Andy Hamilton
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Thursday 22 June 2023
18:30-19:30 BSTThe Tortoise Interview with Dr Julia Patterson
In this ThinkIn, Dr Patterson will be discussing the solutions laid out in her book, her work at EveryDoctor and the chance to address some of the criticism they have faced.
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Tuesday 23 May 2023
18:30-19:30 BSTWhy politics fails: what are we getting wrong?
In this ThinkIn, Tortoise political editor Cat Neilan is joined by Ben Ansell, an award-winning Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions.
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Wednesday 21 June 2023
18:30-19:45 BSTThe News Meeting Live
Join Tortoise Media for a live recording of the hit podcast, ‘The News. Meeting’ and help set the news agenda.
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Tuesday 18 April 2023
18:30-19:30 BSTRussia: what is to be done?
If commercial, financial, cultural and military options have run out of road, what other levers are open to the West, and is the West prepared to use them?
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Tuesday 7 March 2023
20:30-21:30 GMTThe world and Iran: what can the west do?
What role can the international community play in supporting the push for change?
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Thursday 23 February 2023
18:30-19:30 GMTHow do words work?
Join us for a ThinkIn with Susie Dent as we find the right words for the right time, covering any emotional, political, or social situation.
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Wednesday 1 March 2023
13:00-14:00 GMTIs Brexit working?
Join us as we discuss the indicators by which to measure the current and future successes and failures of Brexit, and the stories that could bring them to life.
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Tuesday 7 March 2023
19:00-21:00 GMTIran: a new revolution?
Join us as we’ll be exploring recent developments in Iran, covering everything from protests and media coverage, to international and geopolitical perspectives.
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Wednesday 22 February 2023
18:30-19:30 GMTAlzheimer’s: are we chasing cure over care?
Join us for this ThinkIn to explore the hidden sides of caring for those with Alzheimer’s
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Wednesday 11 January 2023
13:00-14:00 GMTHow did small boats become such a big issue?
Join Tortoise as we explore how small boats in the Channel became such a big issue in Westminster.
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Thursday 23 February 2023
18:15-21:00 GMTTortoise Lates: Words
Join us for an evening of conversation, ideas and entertainment all about language and the use of words
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Tuesday 6 December 2022
18:15-21:15 GMTTortoise Lates: Christmas
Join us as we chat to Trevor Horn all about his memoir adventures, the secrets and the stories behind the greatest hits of all time.
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Monday 5 December 2022
13:30-14:30 GMTHow do you build a fairer world in an era of permacrisis?
This ThinkIn will pose the challenge of imagining a ‘new internationalism’.
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Thursday 17 November 2022
08:00-09:15 GMTCOP27 Debrief and R100 Index update
Join us in our newsroom or online for our debrief on Cop27
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Tuesday 8 November 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTThe £1billion Greensill swindle: how did it happen?
Join us for this ThinkIn which reveals how the grubby world of shadow banking really operates.
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Thursday 22 September 2022
18:30-19:30 BST200 days of war: can Ukraine still count on global support?
A special ThinkIn where we take stock of the international perspective and geopolitical realities on the war in Ukraine
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Thursday 28 July 2022
18:30-19:30 BSTMaking sense of cheap chicken, with Giles Whittell
How much should a chicken really cost?
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Wednesday 29 June 2022
18:30-19:30 BSTMaking sense of airport chaos, with Giles Whittell
What’s behind the disruption?
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Wednesday 15 June 2022
18:30-19:30 BSTMaking sense of batteries, with Giles Whittell
Is it time for democratic countries to form a western battery alliance?
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Tuesday 17 May 2022
10:00-11:00 BSTSlow News Cafe at the British Library
Bring your morning paper routine to the British Library, with a Tortoise Editor and special guests.
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
18:30-19:30 BSTDoes the UK have enough nukes?
Is renewing Trident worth it? Can we afford it?
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Thursday 28 April 2022
18:30-19:30 BSTIs NIMBYism killing the planet?
How and why are local objections killing windfarm projects?
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Monday 11 April 2022
18:30-19:30 BST40 years after the Falklands: what can the British armed forces still do?
Four decades after the Falklands War, how have the British armed forces changed, for better and worse?
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Thursday 17 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTDoes Britain really want Ukrainian refugees?
How can the government reconcile its pledge to impose tighter controls on immigration, with the need to respond to the refugee crisis caused by the invasion?
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Tuesday 8 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTRussia and Ukraine: a return to conventional warfare?
Are Nato forces better prepared than Russia’s military?
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Tuesday 1 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTPutin: How much opposition is there in Russia?
Is Putin’s nostalgia for the Soviet Union and obsession with Ukraine shared by fellow Russians?
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Thursday 3 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTWelcome to Londongrad: why does London still attract so much dirty money?
Is it really such a bad thing if the world’s billionaires want to bring their money into the city?
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Tuesday 22 February 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTThe Iranian hostages: has Britain prolonged the crisis?
Following the broadcast of Nazanin, a Tortoise production on BBC Radio 4, Richard Ratcliffe, Sherry Izadi and others explore how a 1970s arms deal is impacting families today.
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Thursday 26 May 2022
18:30-19:30 BSTBeyond tobacco: is the end of cigarettes nigh?
Is a world without tobacco a real possibility?
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Monday 21 February 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTClimate backlash: are we bored of climate change?
Are there different ways to talk about fighting climate change and make sure everyone is on board, or are we in danger of losing sight of what’s important?
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Thursday 10 February 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTShould the UK return the ‘Elgin Marbles’?
Where is the line between fair claims of ownership and ‘heritage nationalism’?
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Thursday 27 January 2022
18:30-19:30 GMTDancing in Downing Street: Is the Gray report a moment of reckoning?
Will Sue Gray’s report be a moment of reckoning for Boris Johnsons’s government? How was the investigation conducted and did everyone cooperate?
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Tuesday 30 November 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTWhat will accelerate the UK’s EV transition?
The UK has made a good start in the shift to electric vehicles, introducing ambitious targets and incentives for EV adoption. We know that electric vehicles are the future: so what’s delaying the switch?
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Tuesday 23 November 2021
18:30-19:30 GMTAccelerating Net Zero: what we’ve learnt, and what next?
A special Accelerating Net Zero Open News meeting – the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference.
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Thursday 4 November 2021
08:30-09:30 GMTGoodbye Big Oil, hello Mega Oil?
A ThinkIn during Energy Day at Cop26 where we asked, what is to be done about the national oil companies (NOCs)? Are any of them serious about diversifying away from oil and gas?
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Monday 25 October 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTIs our dependence on technology sustainable?
Is technology an environmental saviour – or a threat?
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Friday 22 October 2021
08:30-09:30 BSTCan Asia kick its coal addiction?
A special Accelerating Net Zero ThinkIn in partnership with the Judith Neilson Institute, where we heard from experts, stakeholders and reporters across Asia on the state of play at the true coalface of the clean energy transition.
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Wednesday 6 October 2021
18:30-19:30 BSTWho are the biggest Covid profiteers?
What do we know about the ethics of major pharmaceutical companies before the pandemic, and how might this affect our understanding of what’s happened since?
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Thursday 11 November 2021
08:30-09:30 GMTHow do we kick start the renovation revolution?
A Cop26 series ThinkIn assessing household carbon emissions: who should front the retrofit costs of draughty windows, tired boilers and poorly insulated walls?
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Wednesday 10 November 2021
08:30-09:30 GMTToo slow, too many cars – can we change the electrification roadmap?
A Cop26 series ThinkIn about electric cars and their role in solving the climate emergency.
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Tuesday 9 November 2021
08:30-09:30 GMTTalk is cheap. What should CEOs actually do about the climate crisis?
A Cop26 series ThinkIn where we asked, what is the CEO’s role in resolving the tension between the need for collective action to survive versus the need for competition to thrive?
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Monday 8 November 2021
08:30-09:30 GMTHow far can we go with the technology we already have?
A Cop26 series ThinkIn where we considered whether the technology we need to deliver our Net Zero commitments already exists.
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Wednesday 29 September 2021
17:00-18:00 BSTCan soil save the planet?
How we can optimise natural-based solutions to slow, or even halt, global warming.
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Wednesday 8 September 2021
17:00-18:00 BSTWhat are the economics of greening energy?
What is the financial cost and impact of a successful green transition? Join us to find out.
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Friday 2 July 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: How slimmed down should the royals be?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 16 July 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: Can’t we just ditch social media and get along?
Why not just scrap the apps and use the phone for talking, or not getting lost?
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Friday 23 July 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: Are the Olympics doomed?
Are the Olympics doomed, or are we just going through a grumpy patch?
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Friday 7 May 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: Local elections – so what did we vote for?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 21 May 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: How can we vaccinate the world?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 14 May 2021
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: Is Blair right about the future of Labour?
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
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Thursday 29 April 2021
08:30-15:15 BSTThe Tortoise Climate Summit: How can we accelerate net zero?
Join us to start writing a global to-do list before the world gathers in Glasgow to work out how to save itself.
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Friday 19 March 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: Can the police restore public trust?
Make sense of this weeks major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 12 March 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live – The Royals: are we done with the dynasty?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 5 March 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: Who will pay the bill for Covid?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Monday 1 March 2021
18:30-19:30 GMTAre we alone in the universe?
Join us for a ‘close encounter’ with Professor Avi Loeb.
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Friday 19 February 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: Back to school – should everyone take an extra year?
Make sense of this weeks major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Wednesday 10 February 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTNet Zero: From talk to action – what really works?
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Friday 12 February 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: Britain’s borders – what took so long?
Make sense of this weeks major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 5 February 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live – Does Gamestop change anything?
Make sense of this weeks major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 22 January 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: When are people going to stop dying of Covid?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors
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Friday 15 January 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: The great forgotten story of Brexit – what’s really happening with trade?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors
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Thursday 14 January 2021
18:30-19:30 GMTWhat are the glaciers telling us?
Join us for the first ThinkIn of our year long conversation on ‘Accelerating Net Zero’
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Friday 8 January 2021
13:00-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: Operation vaccination – is the rollout plan working?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 13 November 2020
12:55-14:00 GMTSensemaker Live: What does Biden mean for Brexit?
How will the new president affect Brexit?
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Friday 2 October 2020
12:55-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: Egg freezing – what’s the deal with fertility preservation?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 23 October 2020
12:55-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: America and Covid
Whatever happened to the country’s can-do spirit?
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Friday 16 October 2020
12:55-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: America and the world – beacon of nope?
We launch our series of special pre-election ThinkIns.
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Friday 9 October 2020
12:55-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live – Uni in isolation: grin and bear it, or your money back?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Tuesday 29 September 2020
07:55-09:00 BSTIs hydrogen the answer?
And if not, what is? Join us to investigate
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Friday 25 September 2020
13:00-14:10 BSTSensemaker Live: Who’s afraid of TikTok?
Examining this week’s biggest story.
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Friday 18 September 2020
12:50-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live: Will Brexit ever be reversed?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Friday 11 September 2020
13:00-14:00 BSTThe death of Mercy Baguma: is the UK asylum system broken or just cruel?
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Friday 4 September 2020
13:00-14:00 BSTSensemaker Live – Cummings, Covid and the battle for government
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
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Tuesday 26 September 2023
US billionaire Ken Griffin joins Paul Marshall’s bid to buy the Telegraph group
The project is turning out to be a high-speed failure
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Monday 25 September 2023
Sunak plans to scrap HS2 line north of Birmingham
The project is turning out to be a high-speed failure
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Tuesday 19 September 2023
Liz Truss wants to make a comeback – the UK needs to make sure it doesn’t happen
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Monday 18 September 2023
Brand news
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Tuesday 12 September 2023
Chinese trolls said Hawaii’s wildfires were man-made
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Tuesday 12 September 2023
UK can no longer afford its pensions
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Monday 11 September 2023
Over 2,000 dead in Morocco after earthquake, as rescuers search with bare hands
More than 2,000 dead; rescuers search with bare hands
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Friday 8 September 2023
Potus or officer?
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Friday 8 September 2023
Offshore flop
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Friday 8 September 2023
H2 flight
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Friday 8 September 2023
G20 + X minus Y
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Thursday 7 September 2023
Turkish delight
Erdogan’s economic U-turn attracts investors
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Thursday 7 September 2023
The Horizon deal shows how Britain might creep back towards Europe
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Wednesday 6 September 2023
Glum Brum
Giant local authority paralysed by equal pay bill
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Tuesday 5 September 2023
Keir Starmer’s strategy is to project competence while the Tories don’t
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Monday 4 September 2023
Elon Musk is Russia’s useful idiot
The EU says X is helping the Kremlin spread misinformation
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Friday 1 September 2023
Murder by mushroom?
Russian rocket scientist’s death unexplained
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Friday 1 September 2023
Proud Boys shamed
Insurrection ringleader gets 17 months
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Friday 1 September 2023
Tally the turtle
Rare errant turtle flies 4,000 miles home
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Friday 1 September 2023
Dopamine delivery
Stem cells could help Parkinson’s patients
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Friday 1 September 2023
Indian elephant in the room
Adani scandal resumes at an awkward time
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Thursday 31 August 2023
LGBT+ mass arrest
Nigerian police accused of blackmail and extortion
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Thursday 31 August 2023
Coup in Gabon
The army ends 60 years in power for the Bongo
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Thursday 31 August 2023
Artificial kidney
Hope for dialysis patients
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Wednesday 30 August 2023
Hurricane Idalia
It could cut Florida in half
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Wednesday 30 August 2023
X gets political
Musk allows political ads for US election
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Wednesday 30 August 2023
King of whoppers
Burger King will have to explain its burger size in court
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Wednesday 30 August 2023
London’s big new Ulez could be a model for the world
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
UK ATC SNAFU
Hundreds of BA flights cancelled by a glitch
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
Going bare
US home insurance is going out of fashion
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
It’s hard to know just how badly China’s economy is doing
Xi Jinping doesn’t realise China’s economic miracle depended on capitalism. Or he doesn’t care. Either way, by most accounts the world’s second-biggest economy is in big trouble.
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Friday 25 August 2023
Trump surrenders
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Friday 25 August 2023
Tesla power surge
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Friday 25 August 2023
Under the chip bar
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Thursday 24 August 2023
Prigozhin’s “death” looks like spectacular revenge
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Wednesday 23 August 2023
British Museum admits up to 2,000 items stolen
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Wednesday 23 August 2023
Parallel universe
Putin dials in a fantasy to Brics
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Wednesday 23 August 2023
Grid grind
The UK can’t build connections fast enough
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Tuesday 22 August 2023
Gladstone slavery apology raises stakes for King Charles
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Monday 21 August 2023
Russia’s moon failure
Spacecraft smash gets 26 seconds on state TV
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Wednesday 16 August 2023
Not his DNA
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Wednesday 16 August 2023
The IRA effect
Republican districts love Biden’s subsidies
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Wednesday 16 August 2023
Why Donald Trump may already be disqualified from 2024 run
If the US Constitution is alive and well, it has already disqualified Trump from running for the White House again
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Tuesday 15 August 2023
Trump’s 4th indictment
Giuliani is front and centre too
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Tuesday 15 August 2023
China stops publishing youth unemployment data
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Monday 14 August 2023
World values
They exist, but with a twist
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Monday 14 August 2023
Royal money
Charles Windsor’s 45 per cent pay rise
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Friday 11 August 2023
News Corp profits
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Friday 11 August 2023
Honking for humans
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Thursday 10 August 2023
Bet on Saudi
It’s illegal if you’re there; not if you’re not
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Wednesday 9 August 2023
New UK sanctions are overdue and undermined
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Tuesday 8 August 2023
Russia rewrites history
New textbook completed in 5 months
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Tuesday 8 August 2023
Trump’s legal strategy is aimed squarely at the public
Trump’s lawyers are softening up the public with smorgasbord defence which only has to persuade a single juror. It might just work.
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Monday 7 August 2023
Oils talent crisis
Who wants to work for a climate villain?
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Monday 7 August 2023
Ignition – again?
US lab repeats fusion breakthrough
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Monday 7 August 2023
HSBC’s eastern ambo
Whose side is Sherard Cowper-Coles on?
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Friday 4 August 2023
Ancient supercapacitors
They could solve renewable energy’s storage problems
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Friday 4 August 2023
Bookend
Stephen King’s publisher could be taken private
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Friday 4 August 2023
The government paying for HS2 thinks it can’t be built as planned
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Thursday 3 August 2023
Oof VanMoof
Cool e-bike maker goes bust
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Thursday 3 August 2023
BAE boom
Defence giant boasts big backlog
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Wednesday 2 August 2023
Fitch downgrades US
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Wednesday 2 August 2023
Trump indicted again
But is it criminal to lie?
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Wednesday 2 August 2023
UK recession looms
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Tuesday 1 August 2023
Predictive policing
London’s Met is trying to catch potential rapists early
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Tuesday 1 August 2023
Greedy banks
High rates, high profits, stiffed savers
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Monday 31 July 2023
Tesla’s range inflation
Musk ordered exaggeration to make drivers feel good
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Monday 31 July 2023
Carbon McCapture
Sunak’s CCS plan for Aberdeen
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Friday 28 July 2023
Lebedev
Lord of Siberia throws a tantrum
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Friday 28 July 2023
Despite everything, humans are consuming more oil than ever
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Thursday 27 July 2023
Spacey cleared
Now he wants his career back
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
Running AMOC
The chilling effect of Greenland’s melting ice
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
Scalp for Farage
NatWest boss steps down
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Tuesday 25 July 2023
Smug British SMEs
Complacency is harming productivity
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Tuesday 25 July 2023
A Knesset vote to tame Israel’s supreme court has plunged the country into crisis
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Monday 24 July 2023
Barbenheimer delivers
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Monday 24 July 2023
Rhodes burns
As UK bickers
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Monday 24 July 2023
Toyota rover
Life to imitate sci-fi on the moon
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Monday 24 July 2023
Unilever and conscription
Marmite maker toes the line in Moscow
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Friday 7 July 2023
The UK has a debt problem
And it won’t be easy to fix
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Thursday 6 July 2023
Hot and cold
5 July was hottest day ever and big for aircon
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Thursday 6 July 2023
New Horizon
Plan for UK to re-enter EU science programme
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Thursday 6 July 2023
BookTok publishing
TikTok makes bestsellers
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Wednesday 5 July 2023
FCA Odey probe explained
Regulator claims “intensive” supervision of alleged sex predator
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Wednesday 5 July 2023
Solid state
Toyota teases EV world with battery breakthrough talk
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Wednesday 5 July 2023
Richcession?
Bidenomics may be hurting the wealthy most
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Tuesday 4 July 2023
Storm cloud
US to stop China using cloud for AI
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Tuesday 4 July 2023
Apple leaves rivals in the dust as the world’s biggest listed company
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Monday 3 July 2023
Twitter limits
Musk thinks AI bots are a threat to his business
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Monday 3 July 2023
Swiftonomics
She makes more per concert than any star in history
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Monday 3 July 2023
France is at a turning point on police violence
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Friday 30 June 2023
Affirmative action ruling
US Supreme Court ends affirmative action in universities
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Friday 30 June 2023
Space-time pandemonium
Earth is surfing on a sea of gravitational waves
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Friday 30 June 2023
Sri Lankan holiday
Five days off to prevent a run on banks
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Tuesday 27 June 2023
Boulevard of dreams
Paris plans a makeover
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Tuesday 27 June 2023
Cut profits not wages
IMF warning on greedflation
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Monday 26 June 2023
Zaporizhzhia plan
Russia ready to blow up nuclear station
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Monday 26 June 2023
Russia reparations qualms
Germany thinks twice about seizing funds
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Friday 23 June 2023
Stable door, meet lasso
Chancellor meets banks over mortgage crisis
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Friday 23 June 2023
This has to hurt
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Thursday 22 June 2023
Making friends
US could ease visa rules for Indian workers
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Thursday 22 June 2023
The Bank of England has failed to control inflation
The governor of the Bank of England had one job and he blew it. How Andrew Bailey failed to tame inflation.
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Wednesday 21 June 2023
Hot city
Ahmedabad copes with extreme temperatures
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Wednesday 21 June 2023
UK inflation stuck
Core inflation is up and rates will have to follow
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Wednesday 21 June 2023
Sounds of life
Rescuers hear banging in search for mini-sub
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Tuesday 20 June 2023
EV nightmare
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Tuesday 20 June 2023
The Prince and the banker
More Epstein emails, more curious connections
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Tuesday 20 June 2023
Antony Blinken meets Xi Jinping in Beijing
A 35-minute meeting between America’s top diplomat and the president of China might have been the moment two nuclear superpowers stopped sleepwalking towards conflict.
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Monday 19 June 2023
Rebuilding Ukraine
Wall Street fund has strings attached
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Friday 16 June 2023
Silvio Berlusconi: the original populist
Silvio Berlusconi collected Napoleon figurines and dreamed of a bridge to Sicily. He invented modern populism, and died this week as his imitators covered themselves in shame.
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Thursday 15 June 2023
X-plane
Nasa reinvents the wing
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Thursday 15 June 2023
Lost at sea
79 drown in migrant boat disaster
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Thursday 15 June 2023
UK’s gilty secret
Will BoE have to force a recession to control inflation?
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Thursday 15 June 2023
What did Charlotte Owen do to deserve a peerage?
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Wednesday 14 June 2023
Hunt’s handouts for creatives
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Wednesday 14 June 2023
Periodic ocean warming is bad news for world prices
Warm Pacific waters affect weather but also economics all over the world
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
Epstein’s victims can’t take him to court – so they’re going after the banks that handled his money
JP Morgan’s settlement was a long time coming – and it’s unlikely to be the last
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
Pumped up
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
UK Covid inquiry begins
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Tuesday 13 June 2023
Sun and games
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Monday 12 June 2023
WIV in crosshairs
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Monday 12 June 2023
Singapore on Thames?
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Monday 12 June 2023
Trump, Johnson, Sturgeon… Putin?
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Friday 9 June 2023
Odey assets shrink
Misconduct allegations bite into hedge fund’s business
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Friday 9 June 2023
Inside job
A scandal at PwC Australia over providing information about tax avoidance to clients raises wider questions for the business of audit and consulting.
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Thursday 8 June 2023
Austria’s bad friend
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Thursday 8 June 2023
Sunak sees a future for Regulation PLC
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Wednesday 7 June 2023
Ducks not in a row
Harry squirms under cross-examination
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Wednesday 7 June 2023
$50m for ocean carbon
More research on how to soak up CO2
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Wednesday 7 June 2023
Golf sells out
The PGA-LIV deal is a triumph of sportswashing
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
EV, baby!
In their recent series, Mel’s Electric Adventure, Mel Giedroyc and Giles Whittell road-tested nine electric vehicles. But which was the best?
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
Binance sued
SEC says platform mishandled billions
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
Apple’s biggest product launch in a decade is a $3,500 VR headset
Apple claims to have reinvented personal computing with its long-awaited entry into VR. But how many of us really want to live in goggles?
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Monday 5 June 2023
Double 0 Donald?
Trump could be charged under espionage act
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Monday 5 June 2023
Battle for Donetsk
Claim and counterclaim about the spring offensive
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Monday 5 June 2023
The human factor
Left alone, AI makes a fool of itself
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Monday 5 June 2023
Confederation of bosses
Big British business teams up with new name
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Friday 2 June 2023
India’s curriculum
Periodic table and evolution dropped for Indian teenagers
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Friday 2 June 2023
UK accused of torture
Tribunal allows Guantánamo case to proceed
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Friday 2 June 2023
Earth’s life support systems are breaking down but there’s a plan to fix them
1.5 degrees of warming would be too much for more than half a billion people, says a new plan to keep Earth’s life support systems working.
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Thursday 1 June 2023
Sacklers shielded
But they could still face criminal charges
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Thursday 1 June 2023
We are seen to be alone
That is the evidence of Earth’s atmosphere so far
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Thursday 1 June 2023
Sanity prevails
Republican radicals underestimated Biden again in debt talks
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Wednesday 31 May 2023
Battle management
Lord Barker of Battle spends big on lawyers
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Wednesday 31 May 2023
Troops to Kosovo
Nato struggles to keep the peace
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Wednesday 31 May 2023
Asda does petrol
Billionaire owners buy their own filling station chain
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Wednesday 31 May 2023
Putin could use nuclear weapons, and the West needs to be ready
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Tuesday 30 May 2023
Sewage impunity
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Tuesday 30 May 2023
Wuhan lab?
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Friday 26 May 2023
Big solar
Clean energy investment has overtaken fossil fuels
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Friday 26 May 2023
Rezession bites
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Friday 26 May 2023
Workers arise!
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Friday 26 May 2023
Bipartisan value
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Friday 26 May 2023
Perks up
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Friday 26 May 2023
AI trillions
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Friday 26 May 2023
BankStop
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Friday 26 May 2023
Sex education
At the end of next month John Allan will step down early as chair of Barratt Developments even though no complaints about his behaviour have been reported in nine years at the company.
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Thursday 25 May 2023
Biden’s failure to reach a debt ceiling deal worries world markets
All America’s political passions are drawn into the debt ceiling crisis, even though it is manufactured, harmful and pointless.
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Wednesday 24 May 2023
UK traffic deaths
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Wednesday 24 May 2023
Vaping hurts
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Wednesday 24 May 2023
Women’s tennis subsidy
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Tuesday 23 May 2023
Chinese solar boom?
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Tuesday 23 May 2023
Reeves woos pensions
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Monday 22 May 2023
What Bakhmut really means for Ukraine’s war effort
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Monday 22 May 2023
Blue Moon
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Friday 19 May 2023
Blockchain mansions
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Friday 19 May 2023
Buyback boom
Share buybacks are transforming the relationship between investors and companies, and not necessarily in a good way.
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Friday 19 May 2023
Invest in luxury
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Friday 19 May 2023
Russian diamonds
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Friday 19 May 2023
Next pandemic
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Friday 19 May 2023
Mouse roars
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Friday 19 May 2023
Clean sans batteries
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Thursday 18 May 2023
The other summit
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Thursday 18 May 2023
1.5 degrees is nearly us
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Thursday 18 May 2023
Jane Does win
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Wednesday 17 May 2023
License to edit
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Wednesday 17 May 2023
Rubber, road
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Wednesday 17 May 2023
A marriage proposal
Half a billion Chinese women are being encouraged to have more children, but they don’t show much appetite for social engineering.
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Tuesday 16 May 2023
Rishi vs migration
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Tuesday 16 May 2023
Loosey goosey EUsy
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Tuesday 16 May 2023
Borrow to invest
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Monday 15 May 2023
Erdoğan ahead
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Monday 15 May 2023
“Dead man walking”
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Monday 15 May 2023
Fake ADHD diagnoses
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Monday 15 May 2023
End of the god pod
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Monday 15 May 2023
Coffee and John Lewis
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Friday 12 May 2023
Play with Customers
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Friday 12 May 2023
Title 42
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Thursday 11 May 2023
Harry v Piers
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Thursday 11 May 2023
Fusion bet
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Thursday 11 May 2023
Trump on debt
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Thursday 11 May 2023
The tragedy of Rupert
At least Fox News had the cash: it paid its entire $787 million settlement fee to Dominion Voting Systems before lawyers for the two companies got up to leave the courtroom, Dominion’s co-founder told a conference in honour of Sir Harry Evans.
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Wednesday 10 May 2023
Sodium ions
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Wednesday 10 May 2023
Predator Trump
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Tuesday 9 May 2023
Coronation physics
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Tuesday 9 May 2023
Turkmen methane
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Tuesday 9 May 2023
Epstein’s billionaire’s club
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Friday 5 May 2023
Georgia on his mind
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Friday 5 May 2023
Short shrift
Hindenburg Research, the New York short-seller, is on the hunt again after it targeted India’s Adani Group. Its target this time is an activist too.
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Friday 28 April 2023
Insecurity Council
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Wednesday 26 April 2023
Biden glide-in
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Friday 21 April 2023
Companies for old men
Rupert Murdoch is one of a substantial group of ageing business patriarchs who may not be as indispensable as they and their board directors seem to think.
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Tuesday 18 April 2023
Putin’s revenge
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Friday 14 April 2023
Mosquito boast
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Tuesday 28 March 2023
Sensemaker: Meet Humza Yousaf
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Friday 24 March 2023
Sensemaker: Scot free
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Tuesday 21 March 2023
Sensemaker: Swiss tank
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Friday 17 March 2023
Sensemaker: Jupiter blinks
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Monday 13 March 2023
Sensemaker: Crash test dummies
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Wednesday 8 March 2023
Sensemaker: Small minds
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Monday 6 March 2023
Sensemaker: Covid truth or dare
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Tuesday 28 February 2023
Sensemaker: Two trains
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Monday 27 February 2023
Sensemaker: Isn’t Brexit fun?
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Wednesday 22 February 2023
Sensemaker: START stop
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Thursday 16 February 2023
Sensemaker: A brutal business
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Wednesday 15 February 2023
Sensemaker: The Modi effect
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Thursday 9 February 2023
Sensemaker: Rogue regime
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Tuesday 7 February 2023
Sensemaker: The big two
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Friday 3 February 2023
Sensemaker: Postcard from Brexitland
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Wednesday 1 February 2023
Sensemaker: Little big short
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Tuesday 31 January 2023
Sensemaker: China’s long hello
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Wednesday 25 January 2023
Sensemaker: Paper cuts
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Tuesday 24 January 2023
Sensemaker: Cabinet shaker
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Monday 23 January 2023
Sensemaker: Leopards’ leap
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Thursday 19 January 2023
Sensemaker: Extreme continental
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Thursday 12 January 2023
Sensemaker: Join the dots
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Sunday 8 January 2023
Sensemaker: Westminster money trail
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Wednesday 4 January 2023
Sensemaker: Talking about Kevin
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Tuesday 3 January 2023
Sensemaker: Deeper and deeper
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Wednesday 14 December 2022
Sensemaker: Starshot
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Wednesday 7 December 2022
Sensemaker: Trump’s awful day
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Tuesday 6 December 2022
Sensemaker: Phala Phala
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Monday 5 December 2022
Sensemaker: Cap in hand
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Tuesday 29 November 2022
Sensemaker: Revolutionary road
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Thursday 24 November 2022
Sensemaker: Scottish neverendum
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Wednesday 23 November 2022
Sensemaker: Darkbulb moment
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Thursday 17 November 2022
The Responsibility100 Index: The findings
The Responsibility100 Index assesses FTSE 100 companies on their actions and commitments toward a more sustainable future. Here’s what we found in our 2022 update
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Tuesday 15 November 2022
Sensemaker: Sleepy Joe Mojo
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Monday 14 November 2022
Sensemaker: Sam Bankrupt-Fried
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Thursday 10 November 2022
Sensemaker: Rubicon, Rubicoff
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Wednesday 9 November 2022
Sensemaker: Democracy’s big night
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Wednesday 2 November 2022
Sensemaker: Marco Scholzo
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Friday 28 October 2022
Sensemaker: Gas glut
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Monday 24 October 2022
Sensemaker: Gov actually
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Wednesday 19 October 2022
Sensemaker: Bone China
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Thursday 13 October 2022
Sensemaker: Peak house
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Monday 10 October 2022
Sensemaker: Bridge backlash
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Friday 7 October 2022
Sensemaker: Proving Einstein wrong
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Thursday 29 September 2022
Sensemaker: The abyss
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Wednesday 28 September 2022
Sensemaker: It’s rates, stupid
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Friday 23 September 2022
Sensemaker: Fearless in Iran
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Thursday 22 September 2022
Sensemaker: Nuclear options
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Wednesday 21 September 2022
Sensemaker: Russia on the edge
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Tuesday 20 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Mourning has broken
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Monday 19 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: 500 agendas and a funeral
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Friday 16 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Standstill Britain
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Thursday 15 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Pomp and happenstance
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Tuesday 13 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: William’s big raise
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Monday 12 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: King and country
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Friday 9 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker Special: Spellbound
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Thursday 8 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Winning v. malaria
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Wednesday 7 September 2022
What will Britain’s new prime minister do?
If Liz Truss isn’t going to raise taxes to pay for all her borrowing, someone else will have to, and she would be wise to admit it
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Wednesday 7 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Ms Delivery
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Monday 5 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Moonshot – not
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Thursday 1 September 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Power to the people
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Thursday 25 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Chinese crunch
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Tuesday 23 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Losing Russia’s war
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Thursday 18 August 2022
Who gets to choose?
The Conservative Party is running the election of the next prime minister in secret, with next to nothing revealed about its membership – which includes foreign nationals and underage voters – or what security checks are in place. Tortoise is calling for more transparency
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Thursday 18 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Who gets to choose?
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Wednesday 17 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Meet William Ruto
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Monday 15 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Double O Donald?
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Thursday 11 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: A government of laws
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Tuesday 9 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Leaderless in London
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Friday 5 August 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: War games
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Friday 29 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Long orbital goodbye
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Thursday 28 July 2022
Trump’s noose tightens
Trump’s plan for fake electors to steal the 2020 election could get him criminally indicted. It’s the biggest call a US Attorney General will ever have to make, but the case is only getting stronger
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Thursday 28 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Trump’s noose tightens
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Monday 25 July 2022
Trump dumped
Have Congress’s January 6 hearings served their purpose even if they don’t lead to an indictment?
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Monday 25 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Trump dumped
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Thursday 7 July 2022
End of the affair
Boris Johnson has announced his resignation, leaving a personal legacy as a serial dissembler, a party reeling from scandals and a country hobbled by the Brexit that swept him to power
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Thursday 7 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: End of the affair
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Wednesday 6 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Toasted Johnson
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Monday 4 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Beijing’s engine trouble
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Friday 1 July 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Man seeks plan
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Friday 24 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Double whammy
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Wednesday 22 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Rotherham whitewash
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Monday 20 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: World War Four?
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Friday 17 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Ulster bake-off
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Wednesday 15 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: The free speech fightback
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Friday 10 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Golf washing
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Wednesday 8 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: People minus power
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Tuesday 7 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: The selectorate
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Monday 6 June 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Appeasement 101
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Friday 27 May 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Stinkflation
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Wednesday 25 May 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Uvalde
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Tuesday 24 May 2022
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