On 15 February 2022, Nicola Sturgeon addressed a press conference, called at short notice at her official residence of Bute House, on Charlotte…

Towards the end of November 2022, OpenAI, a San Francisco-based “AI research and deployment company”, released ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) for unrestricted and…

Whatever the perceived benefits of the UK’s official withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, there can be no denying that…

Britain’s high streets are being transformed at a relentless pace. Cafés, fast-food outlets, barber shops, nail bars, and charity shops are taking over,…

A series of disruptive strikes, growing discontent among workers, and escalating strike action, drawing in hitherto uninvolved sectors of the public services, has…

General practice in England, as in the rest of the UK, is in a “crisis” and indeed has been so for many years,…

The outburst of violence on Sunday, 8 January 2023, in Brasilia, Federal capital of South America’s largest nation, seemed inevitable. Throughout his term…

On 4 January 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major speech of the year, shared his vision of an England in…

 Nearly three years to the day when the latest global pandemic was declared by the WHO, on 11 March 2020, COVID remains a…

From 21 December 2022 onwards, a large expanse of the continental US, extending from the Great Lakes in the north to the Rio…