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Lord Dubs, the Labour peer this year persuaded the government to promise to give sanctuary to vulnerable unaccompanied child refugees with no relatives in the UK. In May he secured a commitment that Britain would give homes to some of the estimated 88,000 child refugees…

Yesterday Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was bitterly critical of the junior doctor's rejection of the latest employment deal. He claimed the result was undemocratic, saying: “The BMA’s figures show that only 40% of those eligible actually voted against this contract, and a third of BMA…

I was struck this week by the sharp contrast in language styles adopted by two of the world's great tech leaders - Tim Cook and Elon Musk. Tim Cook's keynote at the WWDC was full of the kind of language we have long associated with…

The Sage, Gateshead This year was something of a turning point for Thinking Digital as the Tyneside-based event, regarded as a kind of home-grown TED since its launch in 2008, this year branched out into satellite events in London and Manchester. The original event was…

I was very struck today, as I whizzed through the countryside in a Newcastle-bound train, by the number of south-facing roofs bearing solar panels. I wonder how long it will be before we start detecting a difference in value depending on the orientation of houses.