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RENEW 2022 saw industry associations come together virtually to kick off the year – Sam Peña-Taylor takes the pulse.

An account of the origins and influence of the most important book on British politics for 50 years

Major music labels signed the Music Climate Pact, a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the record business by 50% by 2030.

Under the agreement, signed by all three majors and several indies, music companies pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.

Tito's famous split with the USSR to walk the path of a mixed economy and the 'self-management' of production was the work of a former partisan hero whose transformative economic project's success still has much to teach us today, argues JOHN CALLOW

For 30 years, politicians have ducked hard questions about our economy. Now the Tories promise to magic the problems away, says political economist William Davies

With our international reputation in tatters, we need to take a long, hard look at ourselves and our place in the world

Older citizens have contributed to society for decades, and many rely on the state pension Many older people are dependent on the state pension. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Many older people are dependent on the state pension. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Sun 18 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT Will Hutton lumps pensioners together, equating us all with a wealthy elite (“Ending pension lock is a start, but there’s no easy fix to the yawning generation gap”, Comment). We are not ...

Such imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians.    Who will ever forget Rock Hudson playing Harold Macmillan, opposite Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Dorothy, or the glamour the young Clint Eastwood brought to playing the maverick, gun-toting loner Edward Heath in the Common Market blockbuster Busting Down the Doors (1973)? More recently, Gillian Anderson won awards for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. But people forget that an equally...

Oriel controversy: Meet ‘Red Kate’, leader of the ‘People’s Republic of Worcester College’ Although she made no secret of her Left-wing views, dons were nonetheless shocked to see professor had signed up to boycott Oriel 10 June 2021 • 10:00pm Prof Kate Tunstall is the most prominent scholar to join the Oriel boycott. Lord Mendoza, the provost of Oriel, is an exception to the usual left-leaning appointments and was last year handed a Tory peerage If the Rhodes Must Fall movement wa...