Why the BBC has a licence fee and what might happen if it were scrapped
Apr 08, 2024 06:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The TV licence is as much part of British life as the BBC, which it helps to fund. But in an era of increased media choice much of it available online, through voluntary subscriptions or even for free BBC director...
Apr 08, 2024 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Cognitive decline and dementia already affect more than 55 million people worldwide. This number is projected to skyrocket over the next few decades as the global population ages. There are certain risk factors of...
How cuts to marginal income tax could boost the UK’s stagnant economic growth
Apr 08, 2024 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The British prime minister recently claimed the UK economy has turned a corner. Rishi Sunak said inflation figures were encouraging, and proclaimed that 2024 would be the year Britain bounces back. According to his...
If life exists on Jupiter’s moon Europa, scientists might soon be able to detect it
Apr 08, 2024 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Europa is one of the largest of more than 90 moons in orbit around the planet Jupiter. It is also one of the best places to look for alien life. Often termed an ocean world by scientists, observations to date strongly...
Why the Chiefs and Royals couldn’t convince Kansas City voters to foot the bill for their stadiums
Apr 08, 2024 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
For the Kansas City Chiefs brass, it must have seemed like the perfect time to ask local voters to cough up some money for stadium renovations. The team was riding high from a big Super Bowl win in February 2024, its...
Nukes in space: a bad idea in the 1960s – an even worse one now
Apr 08, 2024 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views
The US and Japan are sponsoring a resolution for debate by the United Nations security council which if passed will reaffirm international commitments to the 1967 outer space treaty (OST) forbidding the deployment and...
How the UK’s new rights around flexible working will affect employees and businesses
Apr 08, 2024 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Business
Employees in the UK have just received a new right to request flexible working arrangements from the first day of a new job. This is courtesy of the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act and supporting secondary...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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