We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

There are some issues that I need to draw attention to here. The case of Professor David Miller, who was sacked by Bristol University for his anti-Zionist views, is important; he won his final Employm...

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As farmers sound the alarm about a growing food crisis, experts say that Britain’s food insecurity needs to be treated as a growing national emergency. Climate change and conflict are affecting fragil...

UK lags peers in preventing and managing chronic health conditions - Zurich

UK lags peers in preventing and managing chronic health conditions - Zurich

Parliament is on the verge of passing the National Security (State Threats) Bill, and I think far too few people understand what it could mean. The government says this legislation is designed to prot...

Personal independence payment (PIP) is increasingly vital to disabled people to fill in the gaps caused by cuts to services, but there are “deep-rooted” problems with how it is delivered, an interi…

Überfüllung, schlechte Beschilderung, kaum Sitzplätze: Ein Ranking zeigt, welche Flughäfen man eher meiden sollte.

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Two catastrophic earthquakes have hit Venezuela. Buildings were reduced to rubble in minutes. Now the survivors urgently need support. Please donate now.

It is often said that you can know a person by the company they choose to keep. Andy Burnham has chosen Tory-appointed, former Goldman Sachs banker Lord Jim O'Neill as an adviser. As the FT notes th...

After ‘bottling everything up for a long time’ the faithful pet, who has remained silent for many years, will spill the beans on the pair’s ‘pet hates and fur-vent passions’

Why is it that by far the largest group in the population that supports Reform and other far-right parties is those over the age of 55? It would be easy, and trite, to say that this is because these ...

Special Investigation: we can reveal the real story of the IRA attack that destroyed the city centre - and why nobody was ever brought to justice

Informationen über die Myalgische Enzephalomyelitis bzw. das Chronische Fatigue-Syndrom und die Arbeit der Deutschen Gesellschaft für ME/CFS.

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

The Telegraph reports in a morning newsletter headline today that: One million children to be claiming disability benefits next year They add, and I make no apology for quoting a free newsletter at  l...

Claims that 2.4 million households have cancelled the licence fee since 2020 are circulating online. But we’ve found no evidence to support this figure, which the BBC says it doesn’t recognise.

By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve been totally out of commission for three weeks while recovering from bruised ribs sustained in a fall. I have devoted most of my ...

Judith, Becks and Suzie investigate when the Mayor dies in the middle of a meeting.

Der Sportmediziner Christian Puta erklärt die Mechanismen der Post-Exertionellen Malaise bei ME/CFS und gibt wichtige Hinweise zum richtigen Umgang damit.

YouGov European tracker series looks at Donald Trump's popularity in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain

Canada and the five Nordic countries on Sunday said they have agreed to deepen cooperation on military industrial production and other topics, in the latest ​push by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to build new ‌global alliances.

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Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Modern economics behaves as if some people simply do not matter. In this video, I reject that idea outright. Neoliberal economic policy treats people as costs, blames them for failures they did not cr...

As the FT has reported: The Liberal Democrats have set out plans to replace the UK Treasury with a “Department for Growth” in Birmingham, in a bid to close the “yawning gap” between London and the res...

The Resolution Foundation (RF) sent me a very breathy press release / email this morning, promoting this: As they say: The 13 million working-age families across the poorer half of the country are ...

The latest poverty data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation is already being met with a familiar shrug. The BBC appears not to have noticed the report. Politicians are not debating it. And the headlin...

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Driven by concerns over privacy and geopolitical vulnerability, Europeans are increasingly adopting local "app menus" and open-source software to reduce reliance on US big tech.

Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson of the Common Sense Po...

Objective To characterise long-term trajectory of recovery in individuals with long covid. Design Prospective cohort. Setting Single-centre, specialist post-COVID service (London, UK). Participants...

We like to believe medicine exists solely to heal. History tells a different story. From slavery to women’s dissent, from homosexuality to neurodivergence, medical authority has repeatedly been used t...

The UK’s disillusioned Gen Z are losing faith in democracy, survey finds