The Very Best Prime Day Deals Still Live Today in the UK
From headphones and blenders to smartwatches and a fan, these are the actually good deals still live today on AmazonContinue Reading
2022-07-14
Boris Johnson’s ignominious end: the difference between ‘big tent’ politics and personalised populism
Following an excruciating few days when many of his colleagues left his cabinet over yet another scandal, Boris Johnson finally resigned on July 7 as leader of the Conservative party. As the UK is a parliamentary democracy, he continues as caretaker prime minister while the contest that will produce hisContinue Reading
2022-07-14
Sir Mo Farah ‘relieved’ after Home Office reveals they’ll take no action over revelations he was trafficked into UK
SIR Mo Farah has said he is “relieved” the Home Office will take no action over revelations he was trafficked into the UK. The four-time Olympic champion added that he did not want to meet the woman who brought him in illegally from Somalia. 3 Sir Mo Farah has describedContinue Reading
2022-07-13
Sri Lanka riots: how the tiny Indian Ocean island nation got into such a mess
The chaos in Sri Lanka has deepened after the country’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives. The president and his family left Colombo on a military jet just hours before he was due to resign in the face of massive popular protests which culminated on July 9 with crowdsContinue Reading
2022-07-13
You really can die of sadness – and also happiness
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy. It was quickly dubbed “broken heart syndrome”. More recently, scientists have discovered thatContinue Reading
2022-07-13
James Webb telescope: a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy
A star forming region in the Milky Way. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI After decades of development and many trials and frustrations along the way, the James Webb telescope has finally started to deliver what it came for. On July 12, Nasa released the first scientific observations made by theContinue Reading
2022-07-13
Family still do not know how son was allowed to leave mental health unit before suicide
It is “troubling beyond description” to the family of the late Jamie Costello that they still do not know how their son was allowed to leave unaccompanied from a mental health unit before taking his own life. Lawyer for the Costello family, Damien Tansey SC, told an inquest into theContinue Reading
2022-07-13
Ukraine conflict: how China could follow Russia’s playbook to increase its own powers
Amid the restructuring of the global order that has been accelerated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the evolving position of China had been lost in the fog of war. The heads of the UK’s security service (MI5) and US Federal Bureau of Investigation sought to disperse this fog with aContinue Reading
2022-07-13
The Very Best Prime Day Deals in the UK (Day 2)
From phones and laptops to earbuds and TVs, these are the actually good deals you can find on Amazon right nowContinue Reading
2022-07-13
From Squid Game to BTS: V&A to host first exhibition on Korean culture
F or the first time ever, a major exhibition about Korean culture will be staged in the UK. And there’s not long to wait: Hallyu! The Korean Wave will open at the V&A in September. From props and costumes from some of the country’s most popular shows and films, toContinue Reading
2022-07-13