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Economy, Business & Finance
There's no single measure of living standards. Different measures look at different groups of people, different income sources and adjust for inflation in different ways. Wages are growing in real … Read
Health
Ed Miliband has announced that the next Labour government will invest "£150 million each year ... in new cancer diagnostic infrastructure". We wanted to find out how different governments approach … Read
The use of Trussell Trust food banks by an alleged one million people last year is covered by the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Mirror today. You can read … Read
One of the most important things about human rights law, according to its supporters, is that the protections it provides apply to everyone. Opponents say that this feature of the … Read
What is human rights law and what does each side say in this debate? Read
Health
The effective number of practising nurses generally fluctuates across the year. So a comparison of the number of nurses from one year to another is most meaningful if figures for … Read
Most of the papers today have covered the tragic deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean on their front pages. The prospect of the SNP being in coalition leads the political … Read
Today's major political story, judging by the newspapers' front pages, is a rather old one in two senses. First, we've known for some time that, according to the opinion polls, … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
England is going to have a projected 220,000 extra households per year between 2012 and 2022. The supply of new housing has fallen far short of that figure—119,000 homes were … Read
Several of the major papers' front pages put the election to one side today, while the others are an eclectic mix, ranging from UKIP accusing the BBC of bias to … Read
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