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Letting go: the decluttering obsession moves into the mind
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In the early 2010s, mindfulness was the wellness trend to complement the times. It had a self-optimising, corporate vibe that promised if you did enough colouring books, or had a meditation app, life would be easier t...
Letting Republicans depress the vote is ‘not in the cards’: a US governor on a race that may shape democracy
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Wisconsin’s governor, Tony Evers, is not exactly known as a hotheaded partisan warrior – the softspoken Democrat enjoys polka, the card game Euchre, and a daily McDonald’s Egg McMuffin. But it struck a nerve this week...
Letting families in England choose schools hasn’t made things better – just more stressful
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In thousands of calendars across the length and breadth of England, 1 March will have a circle around it to mark that today is national offer day – when children find out where they will be starting secondary school i...
‘We’re letting these people die’: a family’s anguish for Melbourne grandmother lost to Covid in aged care
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Merilyn Saunders loved sport, music, dressing up and, most of all, her family. The Melbourne grandmother died alone after contracting Covid in her aged care facility in January. Her family believe she was more vulner...
As Covid-19 peak seems to near, experts warn against letting guard down
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In February 2021, Dr Craig Spencer wrote in a Medium post that he was as “eager as anyone to see the end of this pandemic. Thankfully, that may be in sight”. “Covid cases and hospitalizations are dropping,” wrote Spe...
Letting Hammond off shows PM won’t tackle corruption, says Labour
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Labour has accused the government of not being serious about tackling sleaze after ministers declined to punish or reprimand the Conservative former chancellor Philip Hammond for using his government connections to he...
Inter open to letting Christian Eriksen leave and play elsewhere
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Christian Eriksen is not permitted to play in Italy this season as a result of the cardiac arrest suffered at Euro 2020, Internazionale have said, but the Serie A champions are open to letting the Denmark midfielder l...
The WHO is letting down long Covid patients
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The WHO recently released its clinical case definition for what it called “post-Covid-19 condition”. This definition is too little too late, its myopic scope does not recognize the breadth of disability and disease ca...
James Bond’s mission stays the same: letting Britain think it’s still a superpower
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It’s no time to die for James Bond, which is a relief, because Britain’s best-known secret agent has plenty of work to do. There are the well-worn problems of tackling Ernst Stavro Blofeld, one explosion at a time, an...
The UK and US are kindly letting us pay too much to ‘help’ build fancy nuclear submarines
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Letting fully vaccinated skip quarantine in England ‘will cause resentment’
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Allowing those who have received two doses of a Covid vaccine to skip quarantine could breed resentment and result in mass non-compliance, a scientific adviser has warned. Robert West, a professor in health psychology...
Johnson does not rule out letting double-jabbed tourists skip quarantine
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Boris Johnson has not ruled out double-vaccinated travellers from England being able to skip quarantine when they return home from amber list countries later this month. The prime minister did not dispute that the cha...
Letting users bypass App Store would be security risk, says Apple
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Allowing users to bypass the App Store would lead to a wave of damaging malware on iPhones and iPads, Apple has warned, as the company faces the prospect of sweeping regulatory action on both sides of the Atlantic. Op...
‘Dingoes were here first’: the landowners who say letting ‘wild dogs’ live pays dividends
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By their own admission, John Knight and Caroline Thomas are blow-ins to the cattle country in South Australia’s far north. An Adelaide cardiac surgeon and a clinical researcher respectively, they bought Evelyn Downs, ...
Letting go: my battle to help my parents die a good death
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Almost as soon as the word Covid is coined, my parents update their “advance decision” documents. They’re constantly adjusting them, fine-tuning their wishes for future medical treatment. “Like a dowager with an elabo...
Luke Shaw admits letting Southgate down over serial England withdrawals
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Luke Shaw has talked about the deep sense of regret he carried for more than two years at letting down Gareth Southgate as he vowed to make the most of his fresh start with England. The Manchester United left-back, wh...