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Will Labour get better marks on education next term? | Politics News

Will Labour get better marks on education next term? | Politics News

πŸ‘‰Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπŸ‘ˆβ€―β€―β€―β€―β€―β€―β€― “Education, education, education” was how Tony Blair set out New Labour’s priorities in the early noughties. A quarter of a century on, what story is Sir Keir Starmer trying to tell about schools under his premiership? In this episode, Sam and Anne are joined…

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Terence Stamp, prolific actor who played General Zod in ‘Superman’ films, dies at 87

Terence Stamp, prolific actor who played General Zod in ‘Superman’ films, dies at 87

Terence Stamp, the prolific English actor who played General Zod in the β€œSuperman” films and earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the title character in β€œBilly Budd,” has died. He was 87. Stamp died of undisclosed causes Sunday morning, his family confirmed to Reuters. β€œHe leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both…

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A robotics activist's remarkable crusade

A robotics activist's remarkable crusade

Twenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley executive Henry Evans had a massive stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. But that didn’t prevent him from becoming a leading advocate of adaptive robotic tech to help disabled people – or from writing country songs, one letter at a time. Correspondent John Blackstone talks…

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Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art

Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art

For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers in the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He’s been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape, as the effects of human-caused climate change on glaciers becomes even more starkly apparent….

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