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Andy Burnham has come for the headphone-dodgers. But is there any evidence fines work?
UK leaders past and present love to nudge us towards good or bad behaviour. Social scientists, though, say £100 on-the-s...
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Sally Rooney’s stand on Palestine is brave and humane
The Normal People author’s determination to support Palestine Action, even if it means that her books are withdrawn from...
Technology
Britain loves its underdogs. We should be celebrating our Eurovision flops, not investigating them
The digital, culture, media and sport select committee is to explore why the UK’s entrants are frequently ‘dismal’. Sure...
Education
Water your plants and get an eye mask: 48 life rules every student – and adult – needs to know
If you’re a fresher, this may be the first time you’ve ever lived away from home. So how should you socialise, feed your...
Technology
Dear Ed Sheeran, fence-sitting is so last century: musicians can no longer opt out of politics
It’s all very 2026: with a stadium owner on one side and angry support acts on the other, the cornered star will have to...
Lifestyle
Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters
The author of Generation Maybe, Camilla Cavendish, explains the many reasons people are having fewer children, from dati...
Finance
All the Wrong Moves by Anthony Scaramucci review – confessions of an ex-Trumper
The president’s former press secretary has learned all the right lessons, but how come it took him so long?
Lifestyle
Dining across the divide: ‘The young have so much idealism – but for him everything was determined by getting the Conservatives elected’
A Tory twentysomething and a lifelong leftwinger agreed on the need for more housing stock, but did they concur on welfa...