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    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      UK retail industry
      UK retailers demand protection from shoplifting surge

      Employers say violence and abuse of staff is on the rise and call on the police to prioritise a response

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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Demographics and population
      Why are white Britons dying at higher rates than other ethnic groups?

      New mortality data could help create targeted policy to reduce the UK’s large and growing disease burden

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    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Jemima Kelly
      Dividing the world into heroes and villains does us little good

      We need to be able to speak in nuanced terms, including about Russell Brand or Donald Trump

      Illustration of the outline of a person divided down the middle with half in white on a black background and the other half in black on a white background
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Miranda Green
      Drivers’ re-education camp: embrace your inner swot

      As 20mph becomes a default speed limit, let’s swallow the road rage and learn to love taking endless courses

      Rural signposts to a local pub and nearby villages plus a 20mph speed limit
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      News in-depthUK retail industry
      The UK high street heist: how retailers are battling a crime wave

      Groups from Primark to John Lewis warn surge in shoplifting and abuse of staff is hitting profitability

      Pedestrians outside a branch of Primark in Romford, east London
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Metropolitan Police Service UK
      Met Police officer charged with murder over shooting of Chris Kaba

      Death of unarmed black Londoner last year sparked protests, contributing to falling confidence in UK’s largest force

      Chris Kaba
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      News in-depthUK property
      UK homelessness on the rise as rents soar

      Lack of affordable housing collides with growing demand and tighter margins faced by landlords

      The housing and homeless charity Shelter holds a protest on Parliament Square opposite the Houses of Parliament
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Number of people aged 100 or over in England and Wales hits record high

      ONS analysis finds 11,288 female and 2,636 male centenarians on back of reduced mortality

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    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      Garrick row over women members reignites after legal expert changes his mind

      Lawyer says that ‘he’ in rules could also mean ‘she’ — but club insists its ban will continue

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    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Emma Jacobs
      Oh no, not more tech stuff!

      The short-term pain of accommodating new gear such as Apple’s USB-C charger may make sense in the long run, but I really resent it

      A USB-C plug reflects in an Apple logo. When you next go to buy an Apple product, why not reframe the transaction as your decision to bequeath the company some money?
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Camilla Palladino
      Bans on disposable vapes would be an ill wind for tobacco companies

      The big companies are only bit players in disposables, but there is also wider scrutiny of cigarette alternatives

      Shelves of disposable vape cigarettes in a shop
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Glen O'Hara
      Britain’s university crisis is reaching a tipping point

      Ministerial rhetoric about too many undergraduates ignores the real causes of the problem

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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      The history wars have a big casualty — the past

      Sins of omission and distortion from politicians are complicating the real point of the discipline

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    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      UK north-south divide
      Lagging school spending for north of England poses risk to economy, study warns

      MPs and experts say educational attainment in region has been hit by insufficient financial support after Covid

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    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      FT live news
      News updates from September 5: Oil rises above $90 a barrel, Spanish women’s football manager sacked
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      FT SeriesExtreme renting
      Extreme renting: London’s bidding war escalates as rising rates hit buy-to-let

      Tenants in the UK capital face surging rents and eviction as landlords pass on pressure from higher borrowing costs

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    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      UK schools
      The numbers behind London’s free school lunch scheme

      A programme to offer meals to all primary school students is rolling out in the capital. But there are bumps in the road

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      UK politics
      UK makes inquiry into serial killer Lucy Letby statutory

      Government U-turn comes after ministers set out plans to force criminals to attend sentencing hearing

      A large television screen near Manchester Crown Court broadcasts the judge sentencing
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Sacha Romanovitch
      The ‘unbanked’ deserve as much attention as the ‘debanked’

      Farage-Coutts furore is a chance to focus on the plight of those without access to financial products and services

      FT montage of the logos of Barclays, NatWest, HSBC and Lloyds, four of the nine designated banks that had more than 7mn basic bank accounts open as of last year
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Falling birth rate highlights UK’s demographic challenges

      Number of live births in England and Wales last year was lowest since 2002

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    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      British neglect risks Northern Ireland’s future

      Too many London-based politicians neither notice nor care very much when a crisis looms

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of a hand holding a green bottle with a paper on fire sticking out of it that reads PSNI NAMES
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depthClimate change
      Third of England’s healthcare facilities at risk from heatwaves by 2050

      Government urged to act to prepare hospitals and care homes for higher temperatures as FT analysis reveals regional vulnerabilities

    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Cyber Security
      UK electoral register hacked by ‘hostile actors’, watchdog reveals

      Cyber attack obtained details of tens of millions of voters and was undetected for year

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    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Grenfell Tower disaster
      ‘Arbitrary’ cladding rules leave residents in England’s low-rises with big bills

      Leaseholders in buildings under-11m forced to pay for remediation work as they lack protection under post-Grenfell disaster legislation

    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Brits keep washing machines in the kitchen. Americans don’t. Who’s right?

      Our domestic habits can reveal a lot about society’s values

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