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• Scott Morrison is fighting the 2007 election again. It can only backfire | Greg Jericho

  01-12-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  The PM’s suggestion Labor would change everything is a free ad for the opposition – because change is what voters want
  Governments often try to win elections by fighting the last one again. And to an extent you can understand it – after all, they did win it. But this week the prime minister adopted a rather more bizarre strategy of trying to win the next election by fighting the 2007 election over again. It is about as likely to result in victory for Scott Morrison as it did th
  
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• We ban cannabis but let people eat as much meat as they want. That makes no sense | Sonia Sodha

  01-12-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  If our goal is to limit social harm, we should reassess what we allow and what we rationFor any tourist visiting Seattle, there’s the standard bucket list: ride the monorail, ascend the Space Needle, pay a visit to the world’s largest building, and, if you’re not squeamish about tax avoidance, check out the first-ever Starbucks and the Amazon Spheres.But, as I discovered on a recent visit, there’s a new attraction in town: the cannabis shops peppered through its downtown
  
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• Feargal Sharkey’s mission to save our chalk streams

  01-12-2018 17:10 via theguardian.com
  The former Undertones lead singer and keen fly fisherman is taking on the water companies and Environment AgencyFeargal Sharkey, the former frontman of the Undertones, is not a man who is short of opinions. By the time we’ve walked a few hundred metres, he’s discussed the plight of journalism, the destructive monopoly capitalism of Google and Facebook, the state of the music industry and the irrepressible nature of British creativity.But those are not the subjects I have come to talk
  
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• Brexit: Sam Gyimah resigns over Theresa May's 'naive' deal

  01-12-2018 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Sam Gyimah says the row over the EU's Galileo system shows how the UK will be "hammered" in any deal.
  
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• Trump officials argue climate change warnings based on ‘worst-case scenario'

  01-12-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Official minimize warnings and say government report considers only the highest possible levels of greenhouse gas emissionsThe Trump administration has a new strategy for deflecting concerns about the warming planet. Related: Why no US region is safe from climate changeContinue reading...
  
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• Country diary: the bird of the Blitz

  01-12-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Plymouth, Devon:Bombed buildings provided ideal nesting sites for the black redstart, which went on to colonise Britain In the heart of Plymouth, between the railway station and the football ground, the rectangular expanse of Ford Park Cemetery spreads like an open book, bisected by a low path with lines of graves traversing the gentle slopes on either side.Civilian casualties of the second world war air raids that devastated the city are among those honoured in the graveyard, and at this time o
  
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• Nation's botanical treasure troves 'under huge threat'

  01-12-2018 03:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK's herbaria are great scientific collections that must be safeguarded for the future, say scientists.
  
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• TEDWomen: Vibrations offer new way to track elephants

  01-12-2018 02:24 via bbc.co.uk
  A technique used to study earthquakes have been adapted to track elephants in the wild.
  
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• Climate change: How slag can remove CO2 from the air

  01-12-2018 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists in Wales are looking at how slag heaps can be used to remove CO2 from the air in the fight against climate change.
  
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• Brexit: Minister resigns over Theresa May's 'naive' deal

  01-12-2018 00:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Sam Gyimah says a row about the EU's Galileo sat-nav system shows any deal will be "EU first".
  
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