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David Lammy apologises for getting facts wrong about BA strike
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The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has apologised for condemning plans for a strike by workers at British Airways, saying he had “made a mistake” about the facts. Labour’s stance on strikes has come under inte...
Australia’s emissions climbed in Coalition’s final year as transport and fossil fuels wiped out gains during Covid
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Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2021 as the country wound back Covid-19 lockdowns without taking significant steps to maintain a fall in carbon pollution recorded during the pandemic. National emissi...
Mad House review – David Harbour and Bill Pullman spar in dark family psychodrama
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Theresa Rebeck’s play opens as a dysfunctional father-son drama with dark laughs. The father is terminally ill, sucking on an oxygen cylinder, though still able to hurl accusations of abuse at his son and carer (“You’...
Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites
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Bernardine EvaristoMore Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry, edited by Kayo Chingonyi, brings together a wonderful array of outstanding poets whose linguistic flair and wide-ranging perspectives excite, ins...
What do the byelection results mean for the Conservatives? Our panel’s verdict
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Governments lose byelections, but these results are very grim for the Conservatives. Wakefield was expected to return to Labour and it did, with a substantial (but not spectacular) 12% swing from Tory to Labour. Tiver...
Does David Frost’s claim that Brexit is working stack up?
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On 23 June 2016, slightly more than half of the UK, 51.9%, voted to leave the European Union, sending shockwaves around the world as the UK started the painful process of divorce from the bloc. The result also sowed t...
Brexit is working and naysayers have axes to grind, claims David Frost
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Brexit is working and anyone who says it has hit the economy and trade has an axe to grind, the former Brexit negotiator David Frost has said on the sixth anniversary of the UK voting to leave the EU. Lord Frost stopp...
Tory MP David Warburton faces parliamentary standards inquiry
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David Warburton, the MP for Somerton and Frome, is facing an inquiry by the parliamentary standards commissioner. The Conservatives suspended the whip from Warburton in April after a series of allegations emerged conc...