The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
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WHEN I was a student of English at Leeds University half a century ago, we studied a course on the “American Renaissance” in literature of the mid-1900. Among the prescribed oracles of this era were the “Transcendentalists” — writers from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau, and to Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.
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