How a York-born artist influenced some of Britain’s greatest names – and helped shape everything from fine art to Wedgwood

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GDP is the standard measure of economic success, but it can tell us surprisingly little about whether people’s lives are improving

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Patrick Wright explores the difficulties of balancing the demand for new homes with the demand for affordable food and food security

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Play is essential to early learning and children's development because our brains evolved to ‘boot up’ through social interaction and exploration

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Climate change, disease and human activity are killing trees faster than governments can deliver the planting needed to replace them

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Labour’s broad coalition faces tensions over culture, class and identity. Can shared economic goals keep the party united?

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The United States is stripping the world trading system’s foundational most-favoured nation principle of its meaning and the European Union has clumsily joined that bandwagon

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A fire on a much-loved York nature reserve highlights what is at stake as Andy Burnham considers further North Sea drilling

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Barbara Briggs: Wakefield artist illustrator and traveller with an international reputation and a champion of working women

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Gertrude McPherson, née Briggs (1882–1948), defied convention as an artist, teacher and missionary from Wakefield to Hong Kong

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When the history of Brexit is written, the Lib Dems’ decision to let Johnson hold this election will be seen as a key strategic error.

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We can kick Johnson out. So brave the elements and vote for the candidates with the best chance of beating the Tories.

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Relying on the WTO for our trade was always a terrible idea. Now that the US president has ripped a hole in it, it’s economic suicide.

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Good news from YouGov poll is Tory lead is shrinking. Bad news is they are still ahead because too many pro-European votes are being wasted.

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A Tory victory means more chaos. The only way to end the arguments over Brexit and fix our real problems is to vote them out.

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Johnson yesterday hinted he would axe the licence fee. This had two purposes: cover up his NHS blunder and pummel the BBC into submission.

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PM rips off Love Actually in his video but misses out the punch line: “Just because it’s Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth.”

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Right-wing press has branded Corbyn unelectable. They are right - he is. Not for the reasons they suggest, but because of simple maths.

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To cover up Johnson’s NHS disaster, Tories fabricate story about Labour activist punching Hancock aide.

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Not only is Johnson lying about surrendering to the EU demand for an internal UK border, he isn’t ready to deliver a deal by December 2020.

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