Britain

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Britain

Biotech is coming to Wales

A new biotech organisation is eschewing more established innovation centres for Cardiff. Why?

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The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked

Not least by its own inhabitants

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The grooming-gangs scandal is a stain on the British state 

It involved a toxic combination of victim-blaming and misguided political correctness

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The rise of Nigel McFarage

Reform UK fractures the myth of progressive Scotland 

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MI6’s new “C” used to be “Q”. And she’s good with the gadgets

Blaise Metreweli is the first female head of Britain’s spy service, too

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Britain’s newest way of demoralising doctors

A lottery decides where they will work

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Inverted commas are falling out of fashion

Blame James Joyce. And “fashion”

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The English have become wine producers as well as wine consumers

English wine is changing the landscape

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For once, London is short-changed by the government

Cash for everywhere outside the M25

Leaders

Rachel Reeves’s big-government rhetoric is a worrying sign for Britain

The country needs defence spending and nuclear power, but not more social housing