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Sex education: a new moral panic?
Talking Point MP Miriam Cates believes relationship and sex education in schools is a ‘safeguarding scandal’
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Fifa World Cup 2026 expansion: for the global game or for Fifa’s greed?
Talking Point The men’s tournament co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the USA will have a record 104 matches
By Mike Starling Published
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The Premier League’s short-haul flights crisis
Talking Point Top teams choose to fly despite it being between 25 and 30 times worse for the environment
By Jamie Timson Published
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London Stock Exchange: what might stop a wider exodus?
Talking Point Cambridgshire chipmaker Arm’s decision to float in New York rather than UK has led to worries over British decline
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Divided America: is it time to dissolve the union?
Talking Point Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s dream of a national divorce is ‘more popular than you think’
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Turnips vs. tomatoes: should salad crisis force UK shoppers back to their roots?
Talking Point Britons should eat more seasonally amid national salad shortage, suggests environment secretary
By Sorcha Bradley Published
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Jet zero: future of flight or pie-in-the-sky thinking?
Talking Point New report finds no amount of alternative sustainable jet fuels could sustain the UK’s current flying habits
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Covid lab leak: is conspiracy theory becoming concrete truth?
Talking Point US Energy Department becomes second government agency to conclude virus most likely came from Chinese laboratory
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Shamima Begum: what next after ‘Isis bride’ loses bid to regain UK citizenship?
Talking Point Lawyers say the Isis bride was victim of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation
By Arion McNicoll Last updated
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AI and Big Tech: busted flush or next gold rush?
Talking Point Generative AI start-ups won $1.37bn in investment last year – almost as much as the five previous years combined
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All Quiet on the Western Front: war kitsch or timely reminder?
Talking Point Having swept the boards at the Baftas, Netflix adaptation of anti-war classic is now tipped for Oscars glory, but critics in Germany have decried the film as ‘a piece of indescribable impudence’
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Great British Nuclear: one step forward to take two steps back?
Talking Point New flagship agency to deliver UK’s next generation of reactors delayed as nuclear output is set to decline further
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Rewriting Roald Dahl: ‘absurd censorship’ or a sign of the times?
Talking Point References to weight, mental health, gender and race have been changed having been deemed offensive to modern readers
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‘Ghosts of the 1970s’: the government fear of state intervention
Talking Point Fears Britain will be left behind unless government what to subsidise and what to tax
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