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<p>From surgeons to senior civil servants, even the most decent people can make disastrous mistakes. But these gaffes require honesty</p><p>Gabriel Weston made a mistake at work this summer. It doesn’t define her – she was and is a well-regarded NHS surgeon and author – but it was serious enough, as she explained in an extraordinarily candid series of <a hre

<p>Our economy needs it. The NHS needs it. And making foreign workers’ lives more miserable – as the home secretary plans to do – will undermine integration</p><p>My mum’s carer was uncharacteristically late one morning. She didn’t want to say why at first, but it turned out she’d found her previous client – an elderly lady living all alone, with no family t

<p>The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost</p><p>Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I’ve started subscribing to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/19