Apr 25, 2024 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Todays NHS faces severe time constraints, with the risk of short consultations and concerns about the risk of misdiagnosis or delayed care. These challenges are compounded by limited resources and overstretched staff that...
Rishi Sunak wants to cut the cost of ‘sicknote’ Britain
Apr 25, 2024 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on sickness and disability benefits in order to end a sicknote culture and over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life, in part because he claims that...
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
When former President Donald Trumps attorneys argue before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, they will claim he is immune from criminal prosecution for official actions taken during his time in the Oval Office. The...
How marketing classes can rescue ‘ugly produce’ from becoming food waste
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
At a time of rising food costs and growing food insecurity, a large percentage of food grown for consumption never reaches our tables. Indeed, some estimates suggest that approximately 40 per cent of fruits and...
The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A reckless experiment in Earths atmosphere caused a desert metropolis to flood. That was the story last week when more than a years worth of rain fell in a day on the Arabian Peninsula, one of the worlds driest regions....
New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’
Apr 25, 2024 06:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time...
The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa
Apr 25, 2024 06:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Since coming to power, Giorgia Melonis government has been remarkably orthodox in its foreign policy. Unwavering support for Ukraine, loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance and full participation in the European Union - these...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight