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PARTY CONFERENCE SPECIAL
While Andy Burnham decries “vested interests”, the party conference shows Labour still has ties to some finger-lickin’ corporate sponsors.

THE FLINT ZONES
Is there a clue to the government’s direction of travel in appointing Rav Athwal, a partner at consultancy Flint Global, as chancellor John Healey’s spad?

TRIPLE SCHLOCK
No sooner had Andy Burnham announced an end to the pension triple lock than Reform rushed out attack ads that played fast and loose with the known facts.

CALLED TO ORDURE
The landscape of the Malvern Hills has inspired CS Lewis, Edward Elgar and now the denizens of the red benches, who are getting quite worked up about it.

PUMP FRICTION
Installations of heat pumps remain far lower than they should be. Who’s responsible? The rap sheet is longer than in Murder on the Orient Express.

NUCLEAR PLANT
A top civil servant who was involved in the government’s generous Sizewell C deal has left to become chief of staff for… Sizewell C.

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Money pits
The astonishing costs of prison repairs

No incentive
How the farm subsidy scheme became a total farce

Catching the Sun
Kemi Badenoch’s media charm offensive

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