December 2, 2023
The weighing of gymnasts will be restricted under new British rules after a report detailed abuse in the sport, particularly of women and girls. Gymnasts who are 11 and older in Britain may now be weighed only with their permission and with the permission of a parent if they are under 18. The weighing must
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The writer is professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge and a research theme lead at The Productivity Institute Why are economists — and politicians — obsessed with productivity? For two reasons. The first is that unless productivity is rising, living standards stagnate; productivity growth reflects businesses and public services using inputs of
READ MORESpain is “very close” to signing a deal on the post-Brexit status of the British territory of Gibraltar, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said after meeting his British counterpart David Cameron in Brussels. “Today we have made progress, because David Cameron has shown a willingness to reach an agreement,” Albares told reporters after the
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Workplace pensions myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a contributing editor Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s latest efforts, like his Mansion House reforms, point squarely at getting people and firms in the UK to save smarter for retirement. This misestimates the scale
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The competition aims to raise awareness about the amount of pollution flowing into our oceans. ADVERTISEMENT Britain won the inaugural litter picking World Cup in Tokyo on Wednesday. Participants from 21 countries, such as Japan, the United States, Australia and France, gathered in the Japanese capital to compete for the title by picking up the
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Britain will be bankrupt by natural disasters in just 100 years’ time, a new study has claimed. Researchers estimate that the yearly growth of costs related to such catastrophes is around 11.2 per cent. This is thanks in part to how climate change is driving up the intensity of weather-related phenomena, according to experts at KISTERS.
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Sweltering heatwaves in the summer of 2022 caused the deaths of at least 70,000 people, scientists say. That’s more than 10 per cent higher than previous estimates suggested. Scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health have increased the death toll estimate for 2022’s heatwave from 62,862 to 70,066. With heat-related deaths in the UK
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Britain’s antitrust regulator will overhaul its merger assessment regime, including improving interaction with the parties and letting remedies be pitched sooner after it was criticised over the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) moved into the top tier of global regulators when Britain left the European Union in 2020, giving it a
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Euronews was told that pro-Palestinian views were being suppressed inside schools, with some Jewish pupils in a “dark zone of depression”. ADVERTISEMENT Amy* is a teacher at a school in London. Like many other schools in Britain, a majority of the pupils come from Muslim or Arab backgrounds. Sympathies for Palestine run high in her
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British women were this week shamed as the biggest binge drinkers in the developed world. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found 26 per cent were downing more than six drinks in one go at least once a month. Meanwhile, nearly half of British men binged regularly, ranking them third in the world.
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