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Brits bemoaning mid-twenties temperatures aren’t just weather weaklings – there’s science behind why we struggle to beat the heat, the experts tell Helen Coffey

Editorial: The TV contests between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were sometimes illuminating, but they avoided the big questions facing Britain

Letters: Readers respond to a long read on how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books to local communities

Jack Anderton says his vision of Britain in 2050 is ‘fictitious’

There are two axiomatic ingredients for building world-changing companies: Capital and talent. In both areas, Britain is at a huge advantage.

Her online sketches about being bicultural and the radical differences between the British and French have garnered her 50 million views and nearly 500,000 followers on social media. Tatty Macleod’s videos tackle the idiosyncrasies surrounding booty calls, Parisian chicness, French waiters and British binge drinking. She's performed across Europe and…

Labour faces a choice: change course or continue hoovering up petrodollars and turning a blind eye to citizens suffering in the region, says David Wearing, a lecturer in international relations

Now things are getting interesting. Yes, Max Verstappen won again last weekend, but McLaren’s pace at a circuit many expected to be prime Red Bull territory suggests we have some fine Formula 1 battles to come in 2024. Lando Norris’s early fight with Verstappen in Spain – hard but just…

Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull