A Project to Count Climate Crisis Deaths Has Surprising Results
Climate change is already killing people, but countries don’t have an easy way to count those deaths. A new project might change that.Continue Reading
2022-01-18
Children exercised less during lockdown – here’s how to get them moving again
ANURAK PONGPATIMET/Shutterstock Lockdowns during the pandemic aimed to limit the spread of COVID-19 and related deaths. However, these lockdowns also affected how active people were. Children became significantly more sedentary. There is a risk that short term changes in children’s physical activity in reaction to COVID-19 may end up extendingContinue Reading
2022-01-18
What was everyone else doing while Downing street was hosting ‘work gatherings’ in the garden? A look at the data
Many people around the UK have been scrolling back through the photos on their phones to remind themselves where they were on May 2020, while staff at 10 Downing Street were gathering for what Boris Johnson insists was a work event but which is currently under investigation as a potentialContinue Reading
2022-01-18
How going from care to prison compounds women’s trauma – new research
Care leavers are over-represented in the justice system. HTWE | Shutterstock In the year to June 2021, for every 1,000 women in custody in England and Wales, 3,808 incidents of self-harm were recorded. This represented a shocking increase of 16% on the previous year. Between March 2007 and March 2018,Continue Reading
2022-01-18
Climate change is creating security threats around the world – and militaries are responding
The British military is currently “too slow and resistant to change”, according to Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the UK’s chief of defence staff. The urgent always takes priority over the important. But in the context of one of the world’s biggest security issues – climate change – threats and adaptationsContinue Reading
2022-01-17
£1.5mil won for Plymouth by MP, as energy crisis hits
£1.5 million pounds has been returned to voters in Plymouth in overpaid taxes, lost benefits or withheld support thanks to Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, and his team of caseworkers. Since being elected in 2017, Luke has been keeping track of the sums of money himContinue Reading
2022-01-17
Ireland could begin ‘phased’ end to restrictions in coming weeks — Varadkar
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has said he expects a “phased” reopening of society from the end of January. Strict Covid-19 measures, including the closure of nightclubs and a curfew for hospitality venues, were introduced late last year amid fears about the spread of the Omicron variant. On Sunday, the Tanaiste saidContinue Reading
2022-01-16
Multiracism: why we need to pay attention to the world’s many racisms
Racism is being called out across the world – and not just in the usual places. The word “racism” has been taken up by Yazidis in Syria, Uyghurs in China, and Papuans in Indonesia and used to describe their experience of discrimination. Expressed very simply, racism is prejudice and discriminationContinue Reading
2022-01-15
Kazakhstan unrest: another regional headache for Vladimir Putin
The violence that engulfed Kazakhstan following demonstrations over rising fuel prices has abated for the time being. According to reports emerging from the turbulence it seems clear that this is largely due to the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops on January 6 in response to a plea from the country’sContinue Reading
2022-01-15
Is the party over for Boris Johnson? This polling detail suggests it could be
Alamy/Reuters The Labour prime minister Harold Wilson coined the phrase “a week is a long time in politics”, something that has certainly been confirmed by recent events. Up until very recently, it looked like Boris Johnson was unlikely to be ousted from Number 10 any time soon, largely because theContinue Reading
2022-01-15