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Rishi Sunak has been dealt a major blow after NHS waiting lists hit another record high. The prime minister made bringing them down one of the five pledges he made to voters at the start of the year. “NHS waiting lists will fall and people will get the care theyContinue Reading

Tory MPs have torn into Michael Gove’s latest wheeze to solve the housing crisis. The levelling up secretary has announced that holiday lets could require planning permission in a bid to reduce housing pressure in tourist hotspots. Councils could be given new powers to ban future holiday lets if theirContinue Reading

J unior doctors must suspend all strikes for the Government to consider entering talks facilitated by conciliation service Acas in a bid to end the bitter pay dispute, a minister has suggested. Acas has said it is “well prepared and ready to help” and the British Medical Association (BMA) isContinue Reading

Dimitar Bechev is a lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and the author of “Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe.” A couple weeks ago, Bulgarians voted in yet another election — their fifth since April 2021. However, as the dustContinue Reading

When it comes to omega-3, most of us probably think of the fish oil capsules we have sitting in the back of the kitchen cupboard from 2013, but new research shows we should probably be taking said capsules, as nearly all of us aren’t getting anywhere near as much ofContinue Reading

Meghan Markle turned down her invitation to King Charles’ coronation next month, and Twitter is absolutely here for her. Since leaving their lives as working royals behind in 2020, the Duchess of Sussex and her husband Prince Harry have been very open about their previous unhappiness behind Palace walls. SheContinue Reading

A Home Office minster has admitted “there’s more we can do” to follow up on reported crimes and said the bureaucracy involved in recording certain incidents is “wasting” police time. Chris Philp insisted Government plans to cut “unnecessary red tape” will see the police focusing less on rude but non-threateningContinue Reading

There are few things more frustrating than spending hours and hours on a task that should have been quick. But that’s the reality of an unproductive day at work, which is an all-too-common occurrence for many people. With phones, social media and at-home distractions for those who work from aContinue Reading