The suffering of animals in war is a topic usually reduced to horses, dogs, and pigeons. To those “noble” creatures that humans managed to tame and then deploy in their conflicts with such elegance that, years later, they even build them monuments. In London, on Park Lane next to Hyde Park, there really is a…
The UK by-election held on 26 February in Gorton & Denton (Greater Manchester) shook the political scene more than any other local contest in recent years. A constituency long considered an impregnable Labour stronghold fell to the Greens for the first time, while Reform UK took second place and the governing party finished only third….
The British media space is resonating with an interview given by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to the television channel Sky News. In this interview, he literally said: “You cannot have an economy where nine million people are on benefits and at the same time huge numbers of immigrants are coming in. Britain is being colonised….
At the time of the Brexit referendum in 2016, professional economists and academics, as summarized by the IMF, predicted that Brexit would cost the UK around 4% of GDP in the long term. It turned out this was an underestimate. New research from the highly respected National Bureau of Economic Research has found that the…
