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Britain has felt the shift to home working more than most countries

For many reasons it is no surprise that the office exodus is so pronounced in the historical centre of Anglo-Saxon capitalism

The Guardian - UK

Changing of the guard: Meet the Great Britain track cycling coaches chasing gold medals

British Cycling replaced all four track head coaches last year. Here's how they're masterminding a path to Olympic titles

Cycling Weekly

Let’s stop kidding ourselves we’re a rich nation and get real… the UK’s gone bust

Britain depends on the kindness of strangers to get by in the world. It doesn’t have to be like this

The Guardian - UK

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No 10 scientist who helped steer Britain through Covid crisis dies in mountain bike crash in Italy

Susannah Boddie was pronounced dead at the scene after cycling accident near Lake Garda

The Independent UK

Weeds May Be a Better Friend to Pollinating Insects Than We Assume

Dandelions, ivy, and other wildflowers typically not lumped in with prettier flowers serve just as important a role as their brethren.

Inverse

Can Britain recreate a microchip industry worth its salt?

UK governments let processor manufacturing drift overseas for years. Now Covid and war have shown how vital homegrown capability is, the country is scrambling to catch up. But so is everyone else

The Guardian - UK

Afghan refugees ‘getting knockback after knockback’ in house searches after hotel evictions

Afghans are struggling to find somewhere to live amid the government’s “shameful” campaign to evict thousands of refugees from hotels in Britain

The Independent UK

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Six dead after migrant boat capsizes in English Channel

Six Afghan males died when a migrant boat heading to Britain sank in the Channel early Saturday, French officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing.

Radio France Internationale

Gone in 48 hours: How fire at ‘Britain’s wonkiest pub’ sparked criminal probe

Questions are being asked about how the much-loved Crooked House pub, which had stood for more than 250 years, came to be demolished, Jane Dalton writes

The Independent UK

Grayson Perry on popularity, pottery and class: ‘I still enjoy looking for discomfort in the faces of the overeducated’

The Turner Prize-winning artist talks to Mark Hudson about why art shouldn’t feel like homework, why he used to have a ‘screwed up’ relationship with art dealers, and his new retrospective ‘Smash Hits’

The Independent UK

Tory policies left UK exposed to energy shocks – Labour

The International Energy Agency data shows that in 2021 the UK had the highest average domestic electricity price among several countries.

The Independent UK

China's plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London stall amid local opposition

China’s plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London have stalled following local opposition to what would be the biggest diplomatic compound in Britain

The Independent UK

Josh Tarling and Ben Wiggins claim world championship medals for Britain

The British teenagers Josh Tarling and Ben Wiggins claimed medals in the men’s time trial disciplines in the cycling world championships in Scotland

The Guardian - UK

Don't just wait for the water firms – three things we can do right now to clean up Britain's rivers

Britain’s rivers and coasts are polluted – there’s no escaping that fact – and water companies are coming under more and more pressure to fix things. Most recently, a law firm has announced its plans to take collective legal action against the UK’s six biggest water companies over alleged pollution…

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Evening Standard

The best house museums for 20th-century interiors, from a PoMo funhouse to Britain’s answer to Villa Savoye

Forget fusty stately homes — these domestic spaces are ripe with the relatable tastes of artists, architects and aesthetes

The Independent UK

Britain’s barge for asylum seekers faces new setback as legionella bacteria found in water system - OLD

Britain is removing 39 asylum seekers from a barge moored in southern England after environmental samples showed legionella bacteria in the water system

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s surging deer population is causing an ecological disaster. I have a solution: wolves

Humans have failed to keep numbers down. Reintroduce these predators, and let them get on with the job, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: The UK economy is stuck in a low-growth trap

The UK economy is not in recession but it is stuck in a low-growth trap. GDP in the three months to June registered a 0.2 per cent jump, marking the fifth successive quarter in which the economy has kept its head above water since a 0.5 per cent advance in…

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Beer in Britain's pubs just got cheaper, thanks to changes in the alcohol tax

The U.K. has lowered taxes on draft beers in pubs, in what it's calling its biggest shakeup to alcohol tax in a century. But taxes on other alcoholic beverages are rising, so not everyone is cheering.

The Independent UK

Timeline of Crooked House fire as ‘major questions’ remain over devastating blaze at Britain’s wonkiest pub

The Crooked House was recently bought by private buyers for ‘an alternative use’

The Independent UK

No 10 suggests Britain is still part of EU in embarrassing social media gaffe

Downing Street boasted UK had more AI companies than ‘any other EU country’

The Independent UK

What the papers say – August 11

A variety of stories feature on the front of Britain’s newspapers.

The Independent UK

MP calls for closure of ‘potential loophole’ after Crooked House pub demolition

Britain’s ‘wonkiest pub’ was hit by a blaze which police are treating as arson.

The Guardian - UK

It’s time to professionalise our underemployed MPs

Letters: Readers on Britain’s elected representatives making millions of pounds through second jobs

The Guardian - UK

Luke Brooks inquest: a shocking spotlight on living conditions in modern Britain

Patricia Brooks had blamed mould and poor state of privately rented house in Oldham they lived in for death of her sonMouldy, damp house did not cause man’s death, coroner rules

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