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Blighty newsletter: British MPs are more radical than we thought

People gather in Parliament Square to demonstrate their support for assisted dying as Kim Leadbeater MP's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill reaches its Second Reading debate and vote in the House of Commons in London, UK.
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Illustration of Starmer, Badenoch, Davey and Farage climbing a mountain.

British politics enters the “death zone”

Every party in British politics is in danger, whether they think it or not

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The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disruptor

The boss of Octopus Energy wants to change the way the world uses electricity 



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Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry

And the prize for the oddest book title goes to…

The literary world’s least-coveted award is announced

How lucrative are MPs’ second jobs?

We crunch the numbers on their earnings from media gigs