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Alzheimer’s: our research sheds light on how the disease progresses in the brain
Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia affect more than 55 million people worldwide. But the development of effective treatments and cures is progressing slowly. To some extent, this is because we still don’t understand enough about what causes the disease and drives its progression. Myself and myContinue Reading
Missing forests are messing with climate targets
Countries are using forests to pad their climate commitments. Now new satellites might call their bluffContinue Reading
Boris Johnson has ended the age of austerity – but his party isn’t on board
As the Conservative party wrestled with its future direction towards the end of the 1970s, Margaret Thatcher’s think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, published a pamphlet of speeches by its co-founder, Keith Joseph. The centre had been created “to change the climate of opinion” in British politics, and theContinue Reading
FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11, shots could begin early next week with CDC clearance
Jamie Blank (L) holds her son, Ari Blank’s hand as he receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from healthcare worker Jen Feinberg (R) at the Jewish Federation/JARC’s offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan on May 13, 2021. Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorizedContinue Reading
ABBA: best pop band ever or hold-music hell? Whose side are you on?
A S ABBA prepare to release their first new album for 40 years — Voyage, out next Friday — a die-hard fan and a firm refusenik (who happen to be a couple) go head to head on the big question. Are ABBA brilliant, or the worst band ever? Jessie Thompson:Continue Reading
BBC: why enhancing the public broadcaster’s fact-checking would strengthen its impartiality
From the 1926 General Strike, through the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, to the more recent Brexit debate and the COVID-19 pandemic, how the BBC tries to ensure impartiality in its journalism has always generated fierce debates about its independence. Every director-general since its foundation nearly 100 years ago has hadContinue Reading
Millions to get Covid booster jabs EARLY as Govt relaxes rules to protect most vulnerable ahead of winter
MILLIONS more Brits could get their booster jabs earlier as ministers relaxed the rules around who can get them. It comes as the NHS announced it had smashed through seven million booster jabs – a huge win for our Give Britain a Booster campaign – with 1.5million more invites going outContinue Reading
Letter to Editor. “Conference of the Parties”
This November 2021 may well turn out to be the most critical in the brief history of our civilization.The UK is host to the United Nations 26th “Conference of the Parties” (COP26),Since humans evolved, the more recent 10,000 year journey from the first farmers to our global economy and communication hasContinue Reading
Nuvolari strongly-fancied to topple the favourite!
Filistine will be a massive target for ‘big-hitters’ in division two of the twelve-runner Novice Stakes over seven furlongs of ‘good to soft’ Newmarket today when the influence of trainers John and Thady Gosden, plus ex-champion Frankie Dettori, are likely to magnetise a high-profile situation to the enth degree. It’sContinue Reading
Football news LIVE: All the latest updates from around Europe’s top clubs
UTD DRESSING ROOM LIKE A ‘HOLIDAY CAMP’ Manchester United’s dressing room is ‘like a holiday camp’ and manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can’t have the rest of the season to turn their crumbling fortunes around. That’s Jamie Redknapp’s verdict as he condemns the ‘recipe for disaster’ United are cooking with theirContinue Reading