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What impact are services like Uber, TaskRabbit and Airbnb having on workers?
Are these new forms of work part of the solution to low pay and squeezed living standards? Or are they eroding workers’ rights and the social safety net? Last year saw growing concern about the nature...
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Michael Dugher sacked in Labour reshuffle
The shadow secretary for culture, media and sport has been shuffled out of the shadow cabinet, according to his Twitter feed. Michael Dugher, MP for Barnsley East and Shadow Secretary of tate for...
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The six obstacles Mark Zuckerberg will face while building his robot butler
What gender will it be? Will it have a face? And could it be hacked? Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and lately a rampant giver-away of money, has announced his New Year’s Resolution: to build a...
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This is everything bad that will happen to me in 2016
The best kind of predictions. Less than a week into 2016, I’m in bed with some kind of godforsaken lurgy I’ve caught off my petri dish niece and/or nephew. My limbs feel like giant sausages. I watch...
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2016 and a new government
2015 saw a striking return of the GSLP/Liberal Alliance to the Gibraltar Parliament. Mark Montegriffo looks to the future. the New Year begins the GSLP/Liberal Alliance will be looking to its second...
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“The most outspoken”? Not quite. Katie Price’s Loose Women debut
Not with a bang but a natter.“Love rats look out!” warned Katie Price in a promotional Loose Women trailer at the end of last year. “Badly-behaved celebs beware, and no-gooders get ready because it’s...
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“I’m a worrier, and this is my outlet”: Jessie Cave on the art of anxiety
The Harry Potter actress talks romantic relationships, controversial castings, and her one-woman show, I Loved Her. Anxiety and obsession are themes that unite all of Jessie Cave’s work: from her...
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Parliament will debate the petition to block Donald Trump from the UK
A Westminster Hall debate is scheduled for the end of this month to ban the Republican presidential hopeful from Britain. Parliament will debate whether or not Donald Trump should be blocked from...
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Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle: the changes are small but important
Jeremy Corbyn has put himself in a good position for the battles to come.“The truth is that these events are always very bad and perhaps the worst of all the duties of a PM," Harold Macmillan wrote in...
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How to deal with the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne and Hamburg
Let’s just keep sticking up for the women. As far as being a black man of African descent goes, the racists in Germany and elsewhere hate us anyway. For any woman, the sight must have been terrifying....
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Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
As a second carpark becomes the suspected burial site of a medieval English monarch, we wonder: who else is still under the tarmac? As 2016 begins, the recent public interest in hunting for royal...
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The Micawber Syndrome
In this personal and provocative piece, Joe Haines, Harold Wilson's press secretary, argues that the Labour moderates cannot "wait for something to turn up" in their battle against Jeremy Corbyn's...
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In this week's magazine | The God Issue
A first look at this week's issue.8th - 14th January 2016 issueThe God IssueLabour reshuffleGeorge Eaton on a reshuffle that has strengthened Jeremy Corbyn's position but done little for party...
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Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle: where do we go from here?
The divide between the parliamentary party and the members is real - but not unbridgeable, argues John Denham. A shambles can be a sign of sheer incompetence; or, as in the case of Labour's reshuffle,...
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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle drowns out his floods attacks
David Cameron deflected the Labour leader's questions with barb after barb on his party's strife. Jeremy Corbyn arrived at PMQs with plenty of ammunition to deploy against David Cameron....
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If we want to help Syrian refugees, Britain will have to get over our asylum...
We can and must do more for refugees - but things will have to change. Many, as they listened to the Christmas story of a Middle Eastern family seeking refuge for the night, will have reflected over...
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Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle gives him the advantage in Labour’s internal war
The leader has demonstrated to shadow cabinet members that they will serve on his terms. In 1963, soon after becoming Labour leader, Harold Wilson told his left-wing supporters: “You must understand...
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Watch: Stephen Fry is in a terrible video to welcome foreigners at Heathrow
Welcome to Britain, where pompous men burble stereotypes at you with their eyebrows raised and laugh at restaurant staff. Is this the worst promotional video for Britain ever, or is it a clever...
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The last week has been a disaster. Team Corbyn need to up their game
Corbyn's aides need to shape up or ship out says Tom Mendelsohn. It has been, even by the Corinthian standards of the leadership’s noble gang of gentleman amateurs, a terrible post-Christmas period...
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Leader: After the storm
Severe floods are becoming the new norm in Britain. Over Christmas and the New Year, Britain was once again hit by extreme weather. The West Coast main railway line between Glasgow and Carlisle is now...
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