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1. AI has sent stocks soaringThe S&P 500, which tracks the 500 biggest US companies, has been on a tear over the past five years –…

Last December, a letter from the Home Office dropped through Maria’s door. When she read it, she screamed. At 68, she lives with her disabled partner,…

To everyone else, it probably looked like a regular summer’s evening. Couples and families enjoying the beer garden, people playing cricket on the green – and…

Several research universities ratcheted up spending on lobbying last year. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Feverpitched/iStock/Getty Images Major research universities spent more than…

Gambling companies have spent nearly £5m to advertise on the London transport network since Sadiq Khan pledged to stop them from doing so, amid a prolonged…

More than half a million pounds has been spent since 2024 on using social media influencers to promote UK government campaigns on subjects ranging from the…

Conservative governments spent £325m creating 67 free schools that subsequently failed or disappeared, many through lack of demand, according to data revealed by a freedom of…

If you’ve been on the New York City subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend. CEO Avi Schiffman…

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When I was a teenager suffering from anorexia, I thought it was a life sentence. I genuinely believed slogans like “every woman has an eating disorder”…