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The best podcasts of 2021
Speed Read The Week’s pick of must-listen shows in genres including comedy, history, true crime and more from the past year
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What’s on TV this Christmas? The best holiday television
Speed Read From films and documentaries to musicals for all the family
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Hong Kong voters shun first post-crackdown election
Speed Read Pro-Beijing candidates sweep controversial Legislative Council vote
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Declining births: is civilisation going to crumble?
Speed Read Last week, Elon Musk expressed concerns about the global population growing out of control
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How to volunteer with the NHS booster vaccine campaign
Speed Read Thousands of voluntary and paid roles to be filled as jab target raised
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Shell’s North Sea oil U-turn: ‘a first victory in a longer war’?
Speed Read Controversy after oil giant pulls out of proposed Cambo project
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How Afghanistan is hurtling towards famine and ruin
Speed Read The UN estimates that about 23 million Afghans are facing acute hunger
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The traffic-light coalition: a new start for Germany?
Speed Read New government expected to be sworn in next week, signalling end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year rule
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Shoppers urged not to buy into dodgy Black Friday deals
Speed Read Consumer watchdog says better prices can be had on most of the so-called bargain offers
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Ethiopia’s civil war: how the country is on the brink of ‘irreversible state collapse’
Speed Read The basic issue is how much autonomy Ethiopia’s regions should have
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Handball: swapping bikini bottoms for tight pants
Speed Read Women competitors will be required to ‘wear short tight pants with a close fit’
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Ryanair: readying for departure from London
Speed Read Plans to delist Ryanair from the London Stock Exchange could spell ‘another blow’ to the ‘dwindling’ London market
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Kathleen Stock resigns: the ‘hounding’ of an academic on the front line of transgender rights debate
Speed Read Sussex University students claim ‘trans and non-binary students are safer and happier for it’
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Legalising assisted dying: a complex, fraught and ‘necessary’ debate
Speed Read The Assisted Dying Bill – which would allow doctors to assist in the deaths of terminally ill patients – has relevance for ‘millions’
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