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The speed and scale at which disinformation spreads is one of the central challenges of our age. But if facts alone were sufficient to dispel rumours,…

The aim of Thursday’s Downing Street meeting between Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy could not have been clearer. It was to send a strong visual…

When Sir Keir Starmer told reporters last week that his government’s upcoming budget would “build on what we’ve done” by focusing on “living standards” and “making…

Science is not black and white. It’s more complicated and more exciting. It’s a constant process of exploration. An adventure into the unknown. Scientists come up…

Earlier this month, as Nordic countries were hit with an unprecedented heatwave and wildfires in the US began spurting “fire clouds”, Barclays pulled out of the…

“We are, it is admitted, the financial centre of the world,” said the chairman of the Union Bank of London in 1903. Back then, the City…

Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the summit of…

Despite the noise around England’s sewage scandal, the political response so far has mostly generated headlines, not real consequences. Ministers performatively “rage” about polluting water companies.…

The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called for the creation of a European army earlier this year, suggesting that, this time, the continent might finally be…

With its ruling in the car finance case, the UK supreme court sent a clear message: some motorists purchased vehicles with deals that were indeed unfair,…