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SIR – The warnings of dire consequences if we don’t follow official “advice” amount to another Project Fear, this time to ensure that we buy into anthropogenic climate change and meekly accept the drive to net zero and its costs.

The United Kingdom's Royal Mail is revolutionizing definitive stamps by adding barcodes to them. But some are opposed to the change.

In today’s newsletter: After Roe v Wade fell in America, this is the state of reproductive rights in the UK

Most of us live busy lives. Between emails, texts, work, family, and friends, it’s easy to get bombarded by obligations and invitations. It’s also easy to have the tendency to say “yes,” even when we can’t or shouldn’t.

A special edition on a profound crisis for the world

Smart engineering solutions such as “sand motors” and artificial reefs will defend our coasts for a while. But in many places, conversations are already turning to a managed retreat inland

The work messaging and exercise platforms have become a social lifeline for many.

Letters: <strong>Robin Maynard</strong> and <strong>Barbara Williams</strong> respond to Simon Usborne’s article about the growing number of young men choosing to have vasectomies for environmental reasons

When Lloyd Williamson lay on his back in a physician’s clinic in November last year, it was for the surgical culmination of years of soul searching. Williamson, who is 30 and from Essex north of London, remembers wanting a family as a child, but something changed in his early 20s. “I thought: You know what? I don’t want to bring a life into this world, because it’s pretty shitty as it is and it’s only going to get worse,” he said two weeks after his vasectomy. Williamson was largely...

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