Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Gravity, the weakest force in the universe
The only reason we initially noticed gravity is thanks to the size of huge and easily observable objects like the planets — but all material possesses this force and scientists are determined to measure it, even at the atomic level. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL report
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THE world is in free-fall. This seems obvious enough in a world in which billionaires have collectively got richer by $3.9 trillion during a pandemic, exceeding by $0.2 trn the global combined wage income lost by workers in the same time.
However, beyond the inability of governments to regulate capital, the Earth itself is falling towards the Sun, always “overshooting” but being pulled constantly down in a way that creates its orbit.
This is the effect of gravity, the force that keeps us stuck on Earth, the Earth spinning round the Sun, and the Sun moving through space as part of an enormous galaxy.
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