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John Kay | 25th November 2015 | U
The FCA and PRA have finally published their report into HBOS, the bank formed from the merger of Halifax with Bank of Scotland, more than seven years after its collapse. The 600 pages contain much detail on events and personalities. But there…
Kiki Dy | Sunday Long Read | 23rd October 2025 | U
Editor’s note: This story includes repeated reference to drug use and addiction. If you or someone you love struggle with addiction, you can find resources online at the National Harm Reduction Coalition or samsha.gov, and if you…
Kevin Blake | Asimov Press | 24th November 2025 | U
“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.”
—Alexander Fleming
Many know the story of Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery of penicillin. Fleming,…
Alice Gribbin & Blake Bartlett | Notes Of An Aesthete | 22nd November 2025 | U
If one painter could replace another in the popular imagination, for the sake of the arts and…
Sonia Faleiro | Guardian | 25th November 2025 | U
In the summer of 2023, I arrived in Dharamshala, an Indian town celebrated as the home of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. The place hadn't changed much since my last visit almost two decades ago. The…
Our local district attorney has been caught using AI to write garbage briefs to wrongly punish people
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