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Record 5.45m people on NHS England waiting lists
Speed Read Health chief warns that crisis is nearing ‘boiling point’ as backlog grows
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Covid testing: the ‘great new game of holiday roulette’
Speed Read On one day last week, the price of a private PCR test ranged from £23.99 to £575
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Olympic sprinters and Ryanair planes: Belarus’s war on dissidents
Speed Read For thousands of Belarusians living in exile, the message is chillingly clear: ‘no one is safe’
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Boris Johnson’s coal mines joke: is anyone laughing?
Speed Read PM sparked fierce backlash by suggesting that Margaret Thatcher helped decarbonise the economy by closing coal mines
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Fires, floods and storms: America’s ‘permanent emergency’ has begun
Speed Read This summer of climate horror feels like the ‘first, vertiginous 15 minutes of a disaster movie’, says The New York Times
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The X Factor: farewell to Simon Cowell’s talent circus
Speed Read The talent show hadn’t actually been on air since 2018, but its death knell was officially sounded last week
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Hot air and empty rhetoric: is the UK acting too slowly on climate change?
Speed Read ‘Every day, new evidence accumulates that humanity is on an unsustainable path’
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Crackdown in Tunisia: the death of a young democracy?
Speed Read President Kais Saied’s seizing of power suggests he plans to ‘eliminate any oversight and all obstacles to his rule’
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Cronyism and the Conservatives: is the UK’s democracy for sale?
Speed Read ‘If this was happening in Iraq, Zimbabwe or Venezuela, we’d call it what it is: corruption’
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Liverpool stripped of Unesco status: could this ‘logical conclusion’ turn out to be a good thing?
Speed Read Last week, a committee in China voted to strip the city of its World Heritage status, citing ‘irreversible’ damage
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Northern Ireland Protocol friction: who’s to blame?
Speed Read No one seriously thinks that this is really about British sausages ‘sneaking into Co Donegal’, says The Sunday Telegraph
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A ‘paltry’ 3% pay rise for the NHS: do nurses deserve more?
Speed Read Even in normal times, the issue of nurses’ pay is ‘politically volatile’
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Trump’s end game: new books paint ‘terrifying picture’ of a president ‘consumed by personal hatred’
Speed Read A slew of recent releases claim Trump prepared to desecrate the constitution to stay in power
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‘Almost impossible to halt’: should UK have handed France £54m to crack down on migrant Channel crossings?
Speed Read French authorities insist that they will not stop boats at sea, or accept back migrants from the UK
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