What Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding can teach us about the economics of partying
The cost Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials on May 19 2018 has been estimated at £32m by one wedding planning company.
If being active is good for your health, why do men in physically active jobs die prematurely?
Men who have physically active occupations are 18% more likely to die prematurely, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Moving around has big health benefits – and now we know how big
Pretty much everyone knows that taking exercise helps people stay in good health. It staves off chronic ailments like type 2 diabetes and heart disease and – maybe – helps us live longer.
Russia: how Western condemnation lets Putin off the hook
As Russians settle in for another six years under Vladimir Putin, they are waiting to find out how willing their government is to tackle the country’s pressing economic problems.
Remembering Isao Takahata, the Japanese animator who made us see the world as children
The recent death of Studio Ghibli’s co-founder, producer and director Isao Takahata has prompted a proper recognition of his work, liberating it from the shadow of his more celebrated partner, the Pixar-championed Hayao Miyazaki who unlike Takahata, also designed and animated.
How an uproar over aid and sexual exploitation ignored women’s actual experiences
The recent “Oxfam sex scandal” – during which some aid workers were accused of paying for sex with young women in vulnerable conditions – has focused almost exclusively on the aid workers and aid organisations involved.
How solid research is helping to change minimum living standards – and the law
The Law Society has mounted a major challenge to the legal aid system’s increasingly stringent restrictions that now entitle only those on the very lowest incomes to help with civil legal costs.
Trevor Baylis: the wind-up radio inventor who forced companies to take sustainable design seriously
Trevor Baylis, who has died aged 80, left his school in London at 15 without any qualifications.
The James Bulger case should not set the age of criminal responsibility
On February 12, 1993, two-year-old James Bulger was abducted and murdered by 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. It was a crime that stunned the world and the shadow of it still looms large over British culture and the English justice system. In her new book about the killing, James’ mother, Denise Fergus, talks about […]
Turkey is using Syrian refugees as bargaining chips as it moves against the Kurds
When Turkish ground troops rolled into Afrin, a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria, in January, the regime was making a considered political calculation. The campaign, which Ankara called Operation Olive Branch, involves Turkish Army Forces and Free Syrian Army troops supported by an air campaign, and aims to oust fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection […]