Scottish colourists exhibition: the painters who stood shoulder to shoulder with Matisse and Cezanne

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The exhibition curator James Knox is to be congratulated on bringing together an impressive collection of work that tells the story of a diverse group of artists who helped transform and modernise British art in the early...

DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

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Lightspring/Shutterstock We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a game changing large language model...

Is Keir Starmer the new Elvis? How celebrity endorsements can shape public health

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Sir Keir Starmer has become the first sitting UK prime minister to publicly take an HIV test to reduce stigma around Aids and encourage more people to get tested. There are historical parallels. In 1956, when Elvis...

Many Canadian households are being shortchanged from retrofit programs — this needs to change

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Canada has set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45 to 50 per cent below 2005 levels. This puts pressure on the residential and commercial building sector, which is responsible for about 18 per cent...

German party leaders are united against immigration – but there is little evidence for a key part of their argument

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As Germany elects its next Bundestag, migration remains one of the most important issues to voters. But politicians are not debating how to attract the 288,000 migrants the country needs every year to maintain its...

To achieve real growth, the NZ government needs to relax the rules around housing

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wants New Zealand to go for growth. But his plan, focused on reforming foreign investment, planning and competition laws, as well as boosting the tourism and mining sectors, is hampered by...

Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold

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Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 secured, as required...