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I realized I’d read them in the archives of one man — a man who died less than three weeks before Crusius’ crime but who, decades before, foresaw this collision of climate change and nativist fears coming and used it to set the country on its precarious course, creating the most powerful anti-immigrant organizations in the country today.

He said that the "cumulative effect of decisions over the last decade or so" had put the force in a "more and more precarious position", and some of its buildings would be "unusable" in a few years without further investment.

He added that the force was in a "precarious position" because previously used options to "prop up" its budget had run out.

After a turbulent week and the dramatic resignation of the man that leads it, the Church of England is trying to take stock at what is a precarious moment.

A slim science fiction novel that looks at our “precious and precarious” world through the eyes of six astronauts on the International Space Station has won the 2024 Booker Prize.