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Type to remember A new font – Sans Forgetica – is capable of boosting people’s memories, say its designers. Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia devised the typeface, which slants to the left and is full of holes. The gaps are said to make it more difficult to read, tricking the brain into using deeper cognitive processing, boosting memory retention. Helpful policy Labour peer Lord Dubs, who came to the UK after fleeing the Nazis during the Second World War, is spearheading the crossparty Compassion in Politics project, in hope of making British politics more sympathetic. They plan a manifesto, a parliamentary group, and to campaign for a ‘compassion test’ to be introduced. It would require all new policies to “raise the living standards of the most vulnerable”. Smart thinking More than 650 UK charity shops have signed up to the Dress to Impress initiative in a bid to give people from all walks of life a well dressed start at job interviews. Each shop has promised to set aside space for smart outfits costing just £10. Participating shops will display a window sticker, and the scheme will run “as long as there is demand,” say organisers.