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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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The Sun’s mealy-mouthed non apology for its ‘1,200 mental patients’ headline

James Bloodworth
23 October, 2013

Tucked away in its ‘clarifications and corrections column today, the Sun has offered what looks like an apology for a distasteful and inaccurate headline two weeks ago.

It’s official: high earners delayed their bonuses to take advantage of Cameron’s 50p tax cut

James Bloodworth
23 October, 2013

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) yesterday made it official: high earners delayed their bonuses to take advantage of Cameron’s top rate tax cut.

Millions in Africa do not have access to morphine and suffer unnecessary preventable pain

Steve Hynd
22 October, 2013

Palliation care could benefit millions of Africans.

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22 October, 2013

Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.

‘BBC presenters have deeply held left-wing political views’. Do they? That’s not what the evidence suggests

James Bloodworth
22 October, 2013

If anyone should be complaining about BBC bias it is the left rather than the right.

NHS loses 445 nurses in a month

James Bloodworth
22 October, 2013

The NHS lost 445 nurses in the last month, meaning that there are now 5,890 less nurses than there were in May 2010.

What if borrowing was going to be a lot lower than predicted?

Cormac Hollingsworth
22 October, 2013

Could borrowing be a lot lower by the election than anyone now expects?

Most people will have bigger concerns than GDP this Friday

James Bloodworth
22 October, 2013

On Friday the latest GDP figures will be released and will almost certainly show that the recovery is well underway, with growth of perhaps as much as 1 per cent for the third quarter of the year. Provided the predictionstest

In a digital age, radical media must adapt

Josiah Mortimer
21 October, 2013

We must innovate and experiment, combining print and digital in new ways.

Preventing climate change and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin

Andy Atkins
21 October, 2013

The recent energy price hikes show what happens when you become reliant on increasingly expensive fossil fuels bought and sold to each other by six megalithic firms.

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