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Prisoner release: Andy Burnham’s difficult choices
With no clear plan to manage sentencing inflation, one option becomes to release prisoners early.
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Firefighting aircraft aren’t enough – Britain needs to build a wildfire-resilient society that involves everyone
The most effective wildfire risk reduction happens long before the first 999 call.
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The Ceuta border incident shows how EU migration can be ‘weaponised’ – but overall levels are declining
The Ceuta crossing is just one part of the wider migration story in the Mediterranean.
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Are cats getting tamer – or is it people who are changing?
It’s not just you – many people have been getting more intense about their pet cat over the decades.
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Abuse and silence in South Africa’s classical music culture: what a student’s story reveals
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
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Zed Beats: how home studios reinvented Zambian pop music and gave young people a voice
Zed Beats artists aren’t known for political songs, but they’ve become so popular that they’re used to mobilise voters during elections.
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Why it’s so hard to switch off on holiday – and what workers and employers can do
For vacation time to be truly restful, the onus is on both employers and employees.
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Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state, says human rights lawyer
The Electronic Intifada Israel and Iran are unique for starkly different reasons — Israel has less of a right to exist than any other country, while Iran is the only country that has stood up against the assault on international law by the US, Israel and their allies. That is according to Craig Mokhiber’s comments
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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
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Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity, new Statistics Canada data shows
Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.
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What is emotional regulation? A child psychologist explains
The aim isn’t to get rid of difficult feelings, but to find ways of managing them effectively.
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Weeks before devastating wildfires hit, Spokane practiced a mass evacuation – the drill paid off
Evacuations in the face of a wildfire, hurricane or other disaster are stressful and can take more time than you might expect. Here’s why practice helps and what to think about.