Digital Border Failure: Why easyJet Flight U2-5420 Abandoned
a family forced into a £1,600 reroute — the EU’s new Entry/Exit System turned a routine short-haul hop into a public systems failure
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Author: Zain Ul Abidin
How the UK State Pension Age Rise Really Shifts the Cost
The rise in the UK state pension age is often described in tidy official language. It is framed as sustainability,
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How Julie Felix’s The Repair Shop Story Became Bigger Than the Shoes
Sometimes The Repair Shop works because the object is fragile
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Student scholarship reality: the dream, the struggle, and what happens after you win
Why scholarships matter so much to students
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Primrose Hill in education: history, landscape, myth, and what students can learn
Primrose Hill is often treated as a scenic London backdrop, but that description is too narrow.
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NASA Artemis II updates: this mission has already changed the story
NASA launched the mission on 1 April 2026, sending Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen aboard Orion on the first crewed Artemis flight
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Waitrose, Easter Eggs, and the Retail Breaking Point
At first glance, this sounded like one of those strange little British news stories people read, shake their head at, and move on from
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Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team and the Tech Behind Better Decisions
The most revealing part of modern mountain rescue is not the heroic image. It is the system underneath it: mapping, communications, weather data, aviation support, medical coordination, and the judgement to know when not to escalate.
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Barclays Branch Strategy 2026: The Return of the High Street Bank Manager
After a decade defined by rapid branch closures, Barclays appears to be rebalancing part of its high-street strategy. Recent reporting
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The Living Syllabus: Why Ripon Is a Powerful Real-World Classroom for Social History
Mention Ripon to anyone south of Yorkshire, and if they know it at all, they will likely conjure up an image of a sleepy,
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