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• All care, no policy: Liberal party pretenders exposed | Greg Jericho

  19-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  On the ABC, the gender gap, climate change and wage growth, the Liberals pretend to care while making sure nothing changesSign up to receive the latest Australian opinion pieces every weekday
  It probably should be no surprise that last night’s royal wedding became part of the political debate this week. But the criticism by government members highlighted yet again the Liberal party’s policy of pretending to care about something while simultaneously doing everything to work against it
  
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• Brexit could wreck green agenda, says UN

  19-05-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  UK’s ‘reputation could suffer if environmental protections are weakened after leaving EU’The United Nations has warned the government that Britain’s reputation is at risk over plans that would significantly weaken protections for the environment after Brexit.In a stern intervention, Erik Solheim, executive director of the UN’s environment programme, called on the environment secretary Michael Gove to honour his promise to deliver a “green Brexit”, ensuri
  
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• Adventure in Albania: kayaking in one of Europe's final frontiers

  19-05-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  With wild rivers, mountains and Unesco sites aplenty, Albania is emerging as an exciting Mediterranean destination – but its wilderness could be devastated by huge dam-building projects‘Go, go, go!” The white-water rafting guide shouted orders from the back of the boat and our five-strong crew paddled hard to stay on course. We were tackling a stretch of the Vjosa, a 270km river that begins in Greece (where it is called the Aoös) and flows through Albania and into the Adri
  
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• Rocks or climate change? HIV or HPV? Take our Big Republican Science Quiz!

  19-05-2018 09:01 via theguardian.com
  Take our quiz and see if you know more about political faux pas than some politicians seem to know about scienceThis week the GOP reminded us once again just how much they champion science. First Mo Brooks, a congressman from Alabama, pondered whether rocks falling into the ocean could be causing rising sea levels at a hearing of the House science, space and technology committee. Then Bill Gates revealed that president Trump asked him if HIV and HPV were the same same thing.
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• Country diary: 'I’ve never needed a permit to go for a walk in England before'

  19-05-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Easton Hornstocks, Northamptonshire: A thousand years ago, mastiffs were allowed here if their front claws had been removed. Now it’s a national nature reserve, all dogs are bannedThe dawn light astonishes but mostly it’s the smell: sharp, delicate, wild garlic, the last of the bluebells, dewy grass. Dappled light is spilled up the trees and on the ground, and swirls, as the leaves casting it sway, like reflections off water. Silver birch limbs, knotted with birch polypore fungus, li
  
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