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A Scotland that is prudent and genteel is quietly angry with a raucous adversary
The Yes campaign’s take on health combines misdiagnosis and political hypochondria
England’s schools will never be the same after Michael Gove’s spell as education secretary
Research shows that firstborn children do better than their siblings
Some of us will die a lot younger than our income may suggest. And some of us will live longer
‘This is an exercise in Big Anecdote rather than big data, but it seems we rarely win an argument’
The international cohort are temporary migrants and should be excluded from targets
HS2 promises to bring business and jobs wherever it goes. It might also take them away
Wall Street and the City are smaller contributers to economic output than is generally assumed
80% of Britons support the target to cut migration yet have no confidence in it
We must not discount ‘non-cognitive’ skills, or what your mother might call ‘character’
‘I like the idea of a plural Scottishness but am not convinced that independence is a means to that end’
This is not evidence of a failed ‘welfare state’. It is more like a failure of the state, broadly defined
We ask too much of technology and too little of ourselves
He is already one of America’s greatest character actors. Now he’s about to star in eagerly awaited new movies from both the Coen brothers and George Clooney
So will my children have a better or a worse life than me?
Waiting lists fell by more in England, where targets were ‘brutal’, than in relaxed Scotland
Many Londoners would count as foreign home buyers – 37 per cent of the city was born abroad
Inequality has long followed scientific progress. But in an ultramechanised world, will a new ‘cognitive elite’ leave everyone else behind?
There is a profound ignorance among the powerful as to the depth of anti-elite feeling
A lucid analysis of the economics of Scottish independence is essential reading ahead of next year’s referendum
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