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June 2026

  • Young group of people standing in circle using mobile phones outside.

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    Let’s call it what it is: antisocial media

  • Portrait of strawberry blonde young men

    ‘Mogging’ is suddenly everywhere. Is that a problem?

  • Dominik Taubert and Carla Cron hold open a large pink card with hearts on it

    Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion

  • The motorhome that Peter Murrell purchased with funds embezzled from the Scottish National party.

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    A new elephant in Nicola Sturgeon’s room

May 2026

  • Various hand tools including hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers, levels, and pliers

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    Fourscore candles for a hardware legend

  • Sats papers

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    Weighing up the value of Sats

  • A cartoon man and woman have a conversation with each other

    Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives

  • Illustration by Elia Barbieri

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    What happens when we lose a language?

  • double quotation markAI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures

    Diego Marani

  • Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms

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    Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother – podcast

    Podcast48:04

April 2026

  • Close-up of hands typing on a smartphone

    ‘I’ll key your car’: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds

  • Emma Beddington

    double quotation markHow can you tell if your boss has a big ego? Their email habits are a definite tell

    Emma Beddington
  • A dictionary of slang words on a bookshelf

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    Word up – this is the best put-down of all

  • Rachel Riley standing next to letters spelling the word 'gobshite' on the Countdown set

    From divvy to dinlo: index of insults aims to record Britain’s diverse dialects

  • Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

  • double quotation markAI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think

    Ada Palmer and Bruce Schneier

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    Keir Starmer is no Neville Chamberlain

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    Ex-Waitrose worker needs our support

  • Say it right! The trouble with unfamiliar names

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