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    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi: who was the greatest footballer?

      As their ‘beautiful rivalry’ comes to an end, which of these sporting superstars emerges the winner?

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      UK society
      Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it

      The US brand of national conservatism fails to resonate in the UK because it is a fundamentally different society

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Residential property
      How England’s flats turned into second-class housing

      Leaseholds and cladding crisis help explain the stagnation in apartment prices

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Data PointsUS gun violence
      Collapsing social trust is driving American gun violence

      Mass shootings and high-powered rifles draw most attention, but the reality of most US firearm deaths lies elsewhere

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      UK immigration
      Progressives are winning the immigration debate — but it doesn’t feel like it

      In the west, increased openness to diversity may be a direct reaction to populism

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Data PointsNational Health Service
      Pay rises alone will not stem the flow of Britain’s medics

      Stress, burnout and workplace culture are driving the mounting exodus

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Data PointsDemographics and population
      London’s parasitical housing market is driving away young families

      Sky-high property costs are forcing thousands to flee the capital, leaving a trail of closed primary schools behind them

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      UK employment
      Tell-tale signs that UK slowdown is here to stay

      While other countries have recovered, clues among UK employment figures suggest problems ahead

    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Data PointsMillennials
      Millennials are not as badly off as they think — but success is bittersweet

      Highly educated and with earnings to match, this generation still falls behind boomers in the housing market

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Data PointsDemographics and population
      Why are Americans dying so young?

      US life expectancy is in freefall as the young and the poor bear the brunt of struggles for shared prosperity

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Data PointsMillennials
      Conservatives win some culture battles, but they are losing the war

      Exploiting wedge issues such as immigration and LGBT rights has cost the right its next generation of voters

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Data PointsProperty
      The Anglosphere needs to learn to love apartment living

      Housebuilding rates in English-speaking states have fallen behind the rest of the developed world

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Data PointsSocial Media
      Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

      Evidence of the catastrophic effects of increased screen-time is now overwhelming

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Data PointsAutomobiles
      America’s obsession with big cars has fatal consequences

      The US relationship with automobiles is costing thousands of lives

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Premier League
      Manchester City’s outsized domination is hurting English football

      Data suggest that fans and officials are right to be asking whether money is warping sporting achievement

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Residential property
      It’s not easy being green when you live in a conservation area

      Outdated and overprotective regulations preserve the ‘character’ of England’s ageing housing stock at all costs

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Data PointsPolitics
      Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics

      Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      Data PointsUK government spending
      Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity

      A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      National Health Service
      The real reason for the NHS crisis

      Years of under-investment have left English hospitals with creaking infrastructure and no spare capacity

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Data PointsUK society
      Incendiary claims about the UK census do not reflect reality

      We should interrogate the convenient weaponisation of the latest data

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      News in-depthNational Health Service
      ‘Winter feels a scary place’: Bolton hospital braced for zero capacity

      Health system on critical list amid record backlogs, staff shortages and funding black hole

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      US midterm elections
      Red and Blue America refuse to budge

      Despite two years of economic and political turmoil, the political map looks almost indistinguishable from 2020

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows

      Lengthy waiting lists are preventing millions from accessing the services they need

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Data PointsSocial affairs
      Britain and America’s electoral geographies are broken

      The UK and US systems warp our understanding of key social issues among the public

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Data PointsChina
      China’s GDP blackout isn’t fooling anyone

      There is diminishing faith in the few economic indicators that, after years of obfuscation, still see the light of day

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