UK smoking ban would have many benefits for public health – but only if it’s effectively implemented
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
MPs have recently voted to ban anyone in England born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, as part of the governments plan to achieve a smoke-free generation. Smoking is the single most important preventable cause of ill...
Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer yes to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether...
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In the early hours of April 15 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) a Sudanese paramilitary force attacked the military airstrip in the town of Merowe and deployed troops across strategic locations in Sudans capital,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Apr 25, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Ivan Vladislavić is Johannesburgs literary linkman. He tells us, in the first pages of his new book, The Near North, that before cities were lit, first by gaslight and later electricity, people of means paid torchbearers...
Apr 25, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be to tell your boss you were unwell...
Tech companies must help the fight aganst extremists using encryption: ASIO boss
Apr 25, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
ASIO is investigating a number of Australians in a nationalist and racist extremist network who are using an encrypted chat platform to communicate with offshore extremists. In a Wednesday speech to the National Press...
What kind of diner are you? 6 types of diners who avoid plant-based meat dishes
Apr 25, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Imagine having dinner at a restaurant. The menu offers plant-based meat alternatives made mostly from vegetables, mushrooms, legumes and wheat that mimic meat in taste, texture and smell. Despite being given that choice,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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