Rory Stewart’s new book Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders is published on 30 October The prime minister once liked to suggest that one of the problems with the Conservative governments was its frequent reshuffles, which generated the dozens of housing ministers and dozens of prisons ministers who failed to build houses or fix the prisons....
Hugh PymHealth editor BBC “It was really bad – we had patients dying on the waiting lists – politicians were getting desperate.” Jesper Fisker, chief executive of the Danish Cancer Society, is looking back 25 years – to the moment Denmark decided to transform its approach to treating cancer. At that point, he says, the...
OF ALL THE things to cause outrage, to intensify the bleating that baseball is broken and the Los Angeles Dodgers are the culprit, the signing that generated the most consternation was that of a relief pitcher. Not Shohei Ohtani‘s $700 million contract in 2023. Not the $325 million guaranteed to Yoshinobu Yamamoto a few weeks...
Even as it ponders a diminished future facing cutbacks and questions of relevance, the United Nations will still draw foundations and non-profit to New York next week for a packed schedule of conferences, meetings, happy hours and dinners on the sidelines of its general assembly of world leaders. But the uncertainty has already had an...
A man has been charged in Pakistan over the killing of 17-year-old TikTok star Sana Yousaf who had repeatedly rejected his advances. Ms Yousaf’s murder in June drew widespread condemnation but also some comments appearing to blame her, igniting a fierce debate about women on social media. Umar Hayat, 22, was arrested and confessed to...
Brazil now joins Spain, Ireland, Mexico, Turkiye and others who have signed on to the case. Published On 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Brazil has formally joined the case launched by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that alleges Israel is committing “genocide”...
As a side sleeper who struggles with chronic illness, I require support and pressure relief in a mattress. This is where I like the Saatva Rx as a specialty option for those dealing with literal pain points. The Rx, if you couldn’t already infer from the name, was designed for more medically inclined situations where...
At least three Russian drones were shot down in Poland’s airspace during attacks on Ukraine, the Polish prime minister said on Wednesday. The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford has been looking at the exact type of Russian drone that flew into Poland, and is proving a massive challenge for Ukraine’s territorial defence forces. Source link
You might think the last thing Labour needs now is this deputy leadership contest, the unavoidable fallout from Angela Rayner’s sad plunge from grace. But these two combatants, Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell, may ignite exactly the rethinking Labour needs. Like it or not, whoever the contestants were, this would be framed as establishment v...
Pamela MaldonadoSep 18, 2025, 06:51 AM ET Close Pamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN. College football Week 4 brings a board full of numbers that look tempting at first glance, but dig a little deeper, and the edges start to reveal themselves. Some of these matchups hinge on mismatches in the trenches,...