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In 2023, when discussing what might be possible with levelling up, Peter John quoted the July 2021 words of the Prime Minister said a year before he was forced to resign from office

The UK government may be taxing people more (other than the very well off) than it has done in many decades, but

The 20th century coronary heart disease pandemic remains a partial enigma.

Any concerns that the UK’s covid-19 inquiry would give ministers an easy ride seem to have been dispelled by the determination with which its chair, Heather Hallett, has pursued information held by former prime minister Boris Johnson.

Danny Dorling discusses the end of the age of speed in his book Slowdown.

In ‘The long shadow of the cost-of-living emergency’, Amy Baker and Hannah Paylor revealed that:

In Response to: Oxford Magazine, No. 452, 0th Week, TT, “The New Roundheads”

From 1798 to 1822 Britain suffered it longest ever fall in wages and a huge drop in living conditions

I suspect they would agree to him joining, were he to ask. He is, after all, both patriotic and a multi-millionaire.

Finland has been the happiest country on earth for the past six years, according to the World Happiness Survey.

The gap between rich and poor is wider than it has been for a century. We think that change is impossible, but it may have already begun

New global ranking for life expectancy shows decades-long UK decline.

You may have become aware of a little controversy surrounding a few small changes concerning how car traffic is routed through the city of Oxford.

On 1st of February 2023 half a million public sectors workers took part in strikes. These were the largest strikes in more than a decade.

You probably don’t know about the 1922 general election. It was the ‘breakthrough election’.