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Dementia: five charts that help explain Britain’s biggest killer | Dementia

Dementia is the biggest cause of death in the UK and is the umbrella term for a number of illnesses. 55 million people worldwideAround 7,000 people are diagnosed in England each month. Global health spending is expected to nearly triple by 2050, reaching $2.8 trillion by 2030. Here we look at the national fight against […]

Tommy Robinson and the evolution of Britain’s far right – podcast | News

On 29 July, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was due to appear in court to face renewed defamation accusations against Jamal Hijazi, the Syrian refugee teenager who was attacked in a sports ground in West Yorkshire. However, he was in a hotel in Cyprus. After the murder of three girls in Southport that day, Yaxley-Lennon, using the pseudonym […]

China Accuses Britain’s MI6 Spy Agency of Spying

AFP — China on Monday accused Britain’s secret intelligence service (MI6) of recruiting a married couple working for the central government as spies for the UK, the latest in months of rife mutual espionage allegations between Beijing and the West. China’s Ministry of State Security said in an official WeChat post that MI6 operatives had […]

Britain’s climate action plan unlawful, high court rules | Green politics

The government’s climate action plan is illegal because there is no evidence that sufficient policies are in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the High Court has ruled. Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho is expected to draw up a revised plan within the next 12 months. To do so, the UK will need to secure a […]

Brexit 2.0? Farage Calls for Referendum on Britain’s ECHR Membership

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has called for British people to decide once again whether the UK will remain under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) or take back full control of its borders. Despite the then-convincing argument that the UK should have been discarded along with the European Union, given that […]