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Albania’s ghost towns: the crisis that caused the exodus
Some Albanians towns have lost a lot of their younger population. Andrew Mayovskyy/Shutterstock Albania has a population of 2.8 million people, according to data published at the start of 2021. Since the fall of communism in 1991 nearly 40% of Albania’s population has left the country. Most Albanians who leftContinue Reading
US midterms: America appears to have passed ‘peak Trump’
Donald Trump was not on the ballot for the 2022 US midterms. But the former president’s shadow still falls heavily across American politics and he has done all he can to keep it that way. His attempt to both set the political agenda for 2022 and to endorse his styleContinue Reading
Ready for anime Grogu? Studio Ghibli and Lucasfilm tease collaboration
I f you thought The Mandalorian’s Grogu – or Baby Yoda, as he has been affectionately nicknamed – couldn’t get any cuter, you’d be wrong. Grogu fans may need to get ready to fall in love with an anime version of the Star Wars character, in an interpretation by noneContinue Reading
XBB and BQ.1: what we know about these two omicron ‘cousins’
Mahir KART/Shutterstock In late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron “grandchildren”: BQ.1 and XBB. This means they will be monitored by health authorities, but are not at this stage regarded as variants of concern. If we think of the omicron variant as aContinue Reading
We tested Einstein’s theory of gravity on the scale of the universe – here’s what we found
Thousands of galaxies seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Nasa Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been remarkablyContinue Reading
Permacrisis: what it means and why it’s word of the year for 2022
The Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 is “permacrisis”. As accolades go, the managing director of Collins Learning, Alex Beecroft, has said that this one “sums up quite succinctly how truly awful 2022 has been for so many people”. The word, most widely understood as a portmanteau ofContinue Reading
UK immigration: creating a spectacle around people seeking asylum generates fear and chaos, not solutions
Suella Braverman's Chinook flight to an immigration holding facility in Kent is the latest move in a decade of border spectacle. Gareth Fuller / PA images When the Home Office left a group of people seeking asylum stranded at London’s Victoria Station last week, the scenes were stark. Hungry, coldContinue Reading
Ron DeSantis: the Florida governor who may steal the Republican nomination from under his mentor Donald Trump’s nose
Is Ron DeSantis the heir apparent to Donald Trump? It sure looked like it on Tuesday. In a US midterm election that saw his Republican party underperform nationally, DeSantis was the spectacular outlier, turning in a dominant performance in Florida’s governor race that turned heads among friends and foes alike.Continue Reading
Wayne Rooney slams Cristiano Ronaldo’s ‘unacceptable’ attitude and questions Roy Keane for defending Man Utd star
CRISTIANO RONALDO is in danger of becoming an “unwelcome distraction” at Manchester United, according to Wayne Rooney. The Portuguese star, currently suffering a bout of illness, raised eyebrows last week when he was named captain for the 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa. 4 Wayne Rooney has slammed Cristiano Ronaldo’s ‘unacceptable’Continue Reading
High blood pressure linked to 22% greater risk of severe COVID – new research
pikselstock/Shutterstock From early on in the pandemic it was apparent that older adults and those with underlying health problems were more likely to get very sick from a COVID infection compared with younger, healthier people. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the most common conditions in the generalContinue Reading