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Back to school: how to cut the cost of school uniform

Parents face paying hundreds of pounds for uniforms as the back-to-school rush begins. 

The Week · Aug 30, 2023

Australia woman's brain invaded by parasitic worm that normally infects pythons

The red worm was alive and wriggling as doctors pulled it out of the woman's brain.

LiveScience · Aug 29, 2023

Cleverly China visit: can UK pull off tricky diplomatic balancing act?

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visits China on Wednesday hoping to tread a fine diplomatic line between calling out Beijing over human rights abuses and posturing over Taiwan and seeking greater cooperation on economic ties and climate change.

The Week · Aug 29, 2023

How the political world might change in 2024

Elections are due next year in some of the world’s biggest democracies, including the US, India and Indonesia, heralding the possibility of significant political upheaval across the globe.

The Week · Aug 24, 2023

Chess and trans rights: another pawn in the culture war?

The English Chess Federation (ECF) has said that it will not enforce restrictions on transgender people’s involvement in the game, in defiance of new rules introduced by chess’s international governing body.

The Week · Aug 23, 2023

The grim homogeneity of fast-food dining

It's no accident that Wendy's, McDonald's and Taco Bell are all starting to look more and more alike inside

Salon · Aug 22, 2023

There’s something about Mary: how a little girl from Notts became England’s most beloved keeper

The Lionesses’ goalkeeper came from ‘a dark place’ to become a national treasure. Maddy Mussen reports on Mary, Queen of Stops

Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2023

20 Netflix shows and movies that critics hated, from Emily in Paris to Secret Obsession

If you’re in the mood to hate-watch movies and TV shows – you’ve come to the right place

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2023

HS2: is this the end of the line?

Britain has endured its fair share of doomed prestige projects, said Larry Elliott in The Guardian, but “as white elephants go, HS2 is in a class of its own”. Since the high-speed rail link got the formal parliamentary go-ahead in 2012, it has become a byword for bureaucratic incompetence and…

The Week · Aug 19, 2023

The decline of the tampon

Sales of tampons in the UK have fallen by 12% in the past five years, raising questions over the long-term viability of the menstrual product.

The Week · Aug 18, 2023