
Keir Starmer to abolish NHS England – the pros and cons
The UK government has announced the abolition of NHS England, phased over two years. In practice, this will involve merging some functions and staff from NHS England into the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)....

Barnards Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to...

What food did the real St Patrick eat? Less corned beef and cabbage, more oats and stinky cheese
Every St Patricks day, thousands of Americans eat corned beef and cabbage as a way of connecting to Ireland. But this association sits uncomfortably with many Irish people. Thats because the dish, while popular in the...

Why parents of ‘twice-exceptional’ children choose homeschooling over public school
Homeschooling has exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly since the pandemic. But researchers are still exploring why parents choose to homeschool their children. While the decision to homeschool is often...

Western Europe’s oldest human face discovered in Spain
The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for the first time in 1994,...

Putin mulls over US-Ukrainian ceasefire proposal – but the initial signs aren’t positive
While Donald Trumps special envoy was en route to Moscow to talk about a possible ceasefire deal with his opposite numbers in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin enjoyed a meet-up with his old friend Alexander Lukashenko, the...

Two charts that explain why Reform isn’t being dented by its scandals
The spat between Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform party, and Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, burst into the open when Lowe was suspended from the party. The allegation was that he had threatened violence to...