New figures from the YMCA show that Plymouth spends just £23.10 per young person on youth services. This is a cut of 89% from the funding provided by the last Labour Government in 2010. This leaves Plymouth ranked as number 136 out of 167 local authorities in England and WalesContinue Reading
Conor ‘could quit Blues for a European giant’ Chelsea have been warned Conor Gallagher may leave this summer to build on his brilliant loan season with Crystal Palace. Ex-Blues assistant coach Jody Morris, who worked with Gallagher under former manager Frank Lampard, reckons the England midfielder is good enough for ChelseaContinue Reading
Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock As the COVID pandemic has progressed, we’ve repeatedly seen the arrival of new viral variants. Variants of concern, such as delta and omicron, are versions of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) which have acquired mutations. These mutations can provide SARS-CoV-2 with a genetic advantage – so forContinue Reading
After the first round of the 2017 presidential election in France, economist Thomas Piketty suggested that while there were four candidates on very close scores at the head of the field (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon), in reality France was divided into three political camps:Continue Reading
DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave.Continue Reading
A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is.Continue Reading
Women’s football is on the rise. Tickets for the final of the Women’s European Championship, due to take place at Wembley Stadium on 31 July 2022, recently sold out within less than an hour of going on sale. The match could break the attendance record for any European Championship match,Continue Reading
Review at a glance R obert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch and The Lighthouse is the ultra-violent Viking saga you never knew you needed. Though not quite as authentic as the 38 year-old American’s previous work, and certainly not as crazy (those hoping for more giant mermaid vaginas will beContinue Reading
Yulia Grigoryeva / Shutterstock Universal basic income – a tax-free, unconditional sum of money regularly given to everyone in a society – has repeatedly been shown to help the most vulnerable groups in society. Numerous successful trials have found that basic income, whether given to everyone or specific groups orContinue Reading
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced recently that he had approved a decision to create a “special mechanism of justice in Ukraine” to investigate Russian “crimes” in Ukraine. The question now is what this special mechanism is and how it will fit with existing processes for ensuring accountability for crimes committedContinue Reading
