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News and features
Mental Health: Why suicide-prevention studies stop—and why the reason matters
Section: Mental HealthA registry study suggests suicide-related research is more often stopped by recruitment, funding and administration than by study-specific safety events.
Economics: Britain’s August borrowing overshot the forecast—what the headline does and does not mean
Section: EconomicsAugust borrowing reached £18.3bn, but one provisional month is not a verdict: the important questions concern debt-interest exposure, public choices and who bears adjustment.
UK Policy and Politics: A £17bn tax promise rests on politics that has not happened
Section: UK Policy and PoliticsThe Liberal Democrats’ conference tax proposal is politically significant, but it is not law and depends on a future election, EU negotiations and uncertain growth.
AI News: Shopping agents are arriving before clear rules for blame and redress
Section: AI NewsBanks’ warnings about AI shopping agents expose a practical governance gap: automated purchasing can move faster than responsibility, consent and consumer redress.
Research and reviews
When wellbeing depends on teachers, who makes time for it?
Australian education professionals identify practical conditions for implementing social and emotional learning. The review asks when adaptation reduces burdens and when it transfers them.
A seat is not the same as power
A framework for institutional, digital and narrative parity shows why participation can remain visible yet powerless. An AE reading follows whether recognition changes later decisions.
Making therapy easier to stay with is not the same as making it work
Adults with ADHD and practitioners identify ways to improve engagement in CBT. The review separates stakeholder preferences from clinical effectiveness and follows where service constraints shift burdens back to clients.
Support is not the same as a future people can see
A study of Portuguese professionals distinguishes immediate job security from longer career confidence during AI adoption. An AE reading asks whether support changes later organisational decisions.
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