Dropping the Leeds branch of HS2 has been seen as a betrayal of the north. Martin D Brown | Shutterstock In 2009, the company HS2 was set up to provide a new high-speed rail line in England. It was planned to be built in two stages. Phase one would goContinue Reading
Maxal Tamor/Shutterstock (with elements supplied by Nasa) According to media reports from Washington, the Biden administration wants to engage China in talks on arms control and non-proliferation. The US president, Joe Biden, and Chinese leader, Xi Jinping discussed the issue during their recent virtual summit. The issue has not previouslyContinue Reading
At age 11, children from poorly educated families are as interested in politics as children from well-educated ones. But by the time they turn 15, children with well-educated parents are 10% more interested in politics than those with poorly educated parents. The social gap in political engagement is one ofContinue Reading
Acoustic waves can detect all kinds of explosions and volcanic activity, but it’s hard to place sensors at sea—unless you’ve got a bird with a backpack.Continue Reading
Updated at 13:30 The State is studying more than 10 possible cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant after initial tests showed they had a trait distinguishing it from the dominant Delta variant, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said. Unlike Delta, which has dominated infections worldwide this year, OmicronContinue Reading
Ten months into his presidency, Joe Biden’s poll numbers are, by any measure, lukewarm. According to the latest figures, taken on November 24, only 43% of Americans approve of his performance in office, while a majority think he is not doing a good job. In a week when he announcedContinue Reading
In the 1970s, Britain briefly achieved peak equality. Jean Carlo Emer | Unsplash, FAL Despite the early claims of British prime minister Boris Johnson’s much vaunted plan to cap personal adult social care costs, his government’s new plan – designed to save the Treasury £900 million year – will seeContinue Reading
At least 27 people have drowned in the English Channel attempting to cross in a small boat. There were three children, seven women, one of whom was pregnant, and 17 men. Although a joint search and rescue operation was seemingly launched in the narrow maritime area between the UK andContinue Reading
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Leaders of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Liberals (FDP) have reached a deal on their coalition agreement for government, paving the way for a new administration to replace that of Angela Merkel. The agreement is the product of negotiation by some 22 working groups, with around 300 participants fromContinue Reading
