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Music is everywhere, including in our heads. So why is it so hard to describe?
The earliest-known musical score is a clay tablet found in Ugarit, northern Syria, that dates back to around 1400 BC
Music

Music is everywhere, including in our heads. So why is it so hard to describe?

Landlords are worried about rent controls. Will Labour introduce them to cap record-high rents?
Activists from London Renters Union hold up placard calling for
Rent controls

Landlords are worried about rent controls. Will Labour introduce them to cap record-high rents?

It turns out Jane Austen was a secret radical all along
Literature

It turns out Jane Austen was a secret radical all along

A Kamala Harris win could make her the first TikTok president
Kamala Harris
Politics

A Kamala Harris win could make her the first TikTok president

Weather forecasts are more important than ever. Here's the science behind them
Michael Fish illustration
Weather

Weather forecasts are more important than ever. Here's the science behind them

UK inflation holds at 2.2% – but it's still a bleak picture for poorer people and benefit claimants
keir starmer
Cost of living crisis

UK inflation holds at 2.2% – but it's still a bleak picture for poorer people and benefit claimants

Get ready for the next Great Resignation as workers say they're burned out and yearning for joy
Work

Get ready for the next Great Resignation as workers say they're burned out and yearning for joy

Four ways Labour's Renters' Rights Bill differs from the Tories' doomed Renters Reform Bill
View of terraced houses in Bath
RENTING

Four ways Labour's Renters' Rights Bill differs from the Tories' doomed Renters Reform Bill

UK can learn valuable lessons from how this Leeds suburb came together after riots
Community

UK can learn valuable lessons from how this Leeds suburb came together after riots

These are the ticking Tory time bombs Labour must defuse as parliament returns
Politics

These are the ticking Tory time bombs Labour must defuse as parliament returns

How this year's Paralympic Games definitely corrects the mistakes of old
Paralympics

How this year's Paralympic Games definitely corrects the mistakes of old

Millions of Brits unable to afford winter energy bills as price cap rises by £149: 'Disastrous'
hob on flame
Energy bills

Millions of Brits unable to afford winter energy bills as price cap rises by £149: 'Disastrous'

Labour accused of 'aligning with landlords' and 'heaping misery on families' over social rent hike
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Social housing

Labour accused of 'aligning with landlords' and 'heaping misery on families' over social rent hike

Fontaines DC, TikTok crazes and trouser chains: The unsettling return of nu metal, explained
Fontaines D.C.
Music

Fontaines DC, TikTok crazes and trouser chains: The unsettling return of nu metal, explained

Here's the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down
UK riots

Here's the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down

Awaab's Law: How AI holds the key to tackling deadly damp and mould in social housing
Switchee is using data to fight damp and mould
Social housing

Awaab's Law: How AI holds the key to tackling deadly damp and mould in social housing

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How classical music is taking cues from pop's taste for retro
Tenor Ian Bostridge, pianist Steven Osborne and cellist Alban Gerhardt recreate the 1961 recital at Aldeburgh
Music

How classical music is taking cues from pop's taste for retro

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison
The silhouette of a women standing in front of prison bars
Prisons

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison

How to make the perfect running playlist, according to science
Celine Dion, Richie Sambora and Pheobe Bridgers can soundtrack your run
Music

How to make the perfect running playlist, according to science

Paris Olympics: 'The city is under siege. I just want it all to be over'
Gendarmes outside the Gare de Nord train station in Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
Robert McLiam Wilson

Paris Olympics: 'The city is under siege. I just want it all to be over'

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