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Obesity speeds up loss of immunity from COVID vaccines – new research
iiiNooMiii/Shutterstock COVID vaccines are very effective, but for some groups they don’t generate as strong an immune response. These groups include older adults and people with weakened immune systems, for example due to cancer or other medical conditions. They tend to already be at heightened risk from COVID. Likewise, obesityContinue Reading
Technology can play a vital role in limiting online gambling – here’s how
Over a quarter of people in the UK gamble online at least once every four weeks. Wpadington / Shutterstock More than a quarter of people in the UK gamble online at least once every four weeks. And 1%–2% of UK adults demonstrate moderate-to-high risk levels of gambling-related harms. The substantiveContinue Reading
West must ‘get real’ on military co-operation, Truss to say in Taiwan visit
L iz Truss is to warn that there cannot be “meaningful deterrence without hard power”, during a high-profile visit to Taiwan next week. The former prime minister, who was widely expected to move the UK Government on to a more hawkish footing when it came to dealings with China, isContinue Reading
Gardaí respond to anti-migrant protest in Dublin city centre
Public order gardaí have responded to an anti-migrant protest outside the International Protection Office in Dublin – a day after a migrant camp was dismantled and set alight. On Saturday, protesters marched from the Customs House, where there was a rally against hate speech legislation currently before the Oireachtas. TheContinue Reading
The Week Unwrapped podcast: Erdogan’s last stand, childbirth in prison and Cleopatra
Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Julia O’Driscoll, Harriet Marsden and Jamie Timson. This episode was recorded before third-party candidate Muharrem İnce withdrew from the Turkish election on Thursday afternoon. His absence is thought likely to increase theContinue Reading
The most eccentric Eurovision performances of all time
Twenty-six acts will perform at Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool to an expected global audience of 160 million viewers. With an entry from Austria that sees the singers possessed by the spirit of gothic American writer Edgar Allan Poe and an Australian five-piece band fronted by an immigrationContinue Reading
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece exhibition review, British Museum
The ancient civilisations of Greece and Persia were enemies for centuries – and their disagreements didn’t only find expression on the battlefield, said Daisy Dunn in The Daily Telegraph. As this “major new exhibition” demonstrates, they had starkly contrasting attitudes towards luxury goods. From the Persian perspective, “lovely things” suchContinue Reading
Johnson at 10 book review – Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell
Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.Continue Reading