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The world is becoming a more dangerous place. It’s an often-heard sentiment these days, but is it really true? Historical comparisons are of limited help.

Last week’s 80th anniversary of the

liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau

concentration camp, where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered by the …

It is one of the least appreciated substances on the planet and its misuse is now threatening to unleash environmental mayhem. Phosphorus is a key component of fertilisers that have become vital in providing food for the world. But at the same time, the spread of these phosphorus compounds – …

As Lady Olga Maitland, Conservative member for Sutton and Cheam, awaited the second reading of her anti-knives bill, it remained to be seen how long she could avoid political meltdown, wrote Robert Chalmers in the

Observer

on 14 January 1996. ‘A recent poll found Maitland, now 50, well placed …

In 2020, Rachel Reeves, the MP for Leeds West and Pudsey, was clear why she opposed expansion of nearby Leeds Bradford airport. It would, she said, “significantly increase air and noise pollution”, so on environmental grounds, it should not happen.

By the autumn of 2021, as shadow chancellor, Reeves was …

Even a nonexistent Heathrow third runway or HS2 northern leg have arguably done their bit for the economy: keeping a small army of planners, lawyers and lobbyists busy over years of tussle between the “builders and the blockers”, as Rachel Reeves has styled them.

Now the blockers are, as the …

Rail passengers face severe disruption on Sunday as Avanti West Coast train staff resume strike action that threatens to affect every weekend until June.

The strikes, which were

suspended for two weeks

to allow for “intensive talks” between unions and the intercity rail operator, will be compounded …
  • Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles against Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and damaging dozens of residential buildings as well as energy infrastructure across the country

    , Ukrainian officials said. In the central city of Poltava, a Russian missile struck a residential building, killing …

Two people have been arrested after two children died in a car collision in Essex, police have said.

Officers were called to Walthams Place in Basildon at about 6.25pm on Saturday to reports of a crash and a car failing to stop.

Emergency services attended but a boy and girl …

Britain is to become the first country to introduce laws tackling the use of

AI tools to produce child sexual abuse images

, amid warnings from law enforcement agencies of an ­alarming proliferation in such use of the technology.

In an attempt to close a legal ­loophole that …

Steve Borthwick has blamed England’s continuing poor results on his team’s relative lack of experience but says he was proud of his players for fighting back to earn a late losing bonus point. England have been beaten in seven of their last nine Tests and must now face an in-form …

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