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A year ago, Rishi Sunak was the runaway favourite to be the next Tory leader, with Liz Truss polling only a third of his support. He started the contest in front in surveys of members and won the parliamentary stage of the race comfortably. Polls now...

Remember this? Vaccines in short supply. Long lines at clinics. Case numbers going up every day. A spreading public dread, fear and suspicion. The Government announcing everything is under control — but it isn’t. The Covid pandemic and the monkeypox...

Wikipedia was under siege recently from a right-wing campaign focused on its article about recessions. Isn’t it convenient, these critics said, that the online encyclopaedia does not clearly define a recession as two quarters of negative growth? ...

As monkeypox cases in the United States climbed to more than 7,100, Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services Secretary, declared the outbreak a public health emergency. It is long past time. The formality came almost two weeks after the World He...

Our first real Cup Match since 2019 and apart from one tragic incident, it seems all went extremely well. Condolences to the families of the young lady that we all lost. For diehard St George’s supporters, it is yet another 300-something days of hopi...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for a trip that had sparked earlier warnings from Beijing that China's military “won’t sit idly by” if the visit occurs. A day earlier, the White House urged China not to overreact to Pel...

Like Osama bin Laden, his predecessor as leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri had the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands. His death, announced by the White House on Monday, should be welcomed not just in the United States but everywhere his...

Heart disease remains the leading killer in the United States. But medical innovations have made cardiomyopathy, aka the scary-sounding condition “heart failure”, less of a threat. Cardiomyopathy affects millions and is the leading cause of hospital...

Human behavioural science indicates that there are types of characters whose patterns of behaviour can be fit into a few different categories. Without being academic, we can observe some of these differences as occurring in our own life experiences. ...

“(1825) Hezekiah Frith Jr’s Notice in the Gazette, which read: One Doubloon Reward Absconded, on the 26th May, Negro Man Tim, belonging to Hezekiah Frith, Sen, Esq, yellow complexion stout male, about 6 feet high, and a carpenter by trade, H...