British Isles
Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:01
Seeds of prayer: Brexit and climate change
Brexit is having both expected and unexpected impacts on trade in agricultural and food products, and is blamed even when other factors may be at play (current fisheries dispute, lorry drivers shortage, increased red tape and…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:58
Ambulance waits risk lives
Richard Webber from the College of Paramedics said that members with thirty years’ service have never experienced anything like this. Lives are at risk because patients face unacceptably long waits for 999 emergency callouts for heart…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:56
Anti-Semitism a ‘present danger’ at universities
Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi said Oxford University should explain to Jewish students why it took a total of £12.3 million from the Mosley family, as anti-Semitism is not simply a historic debate. The Mosley charitable trust…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:54
Church land to be transformed for net-zero
A new project is planning to regenerate 15 percent of the UK's church land in a bid to cut carbon emissions. According to a Christian conservation charity, A Rocha, approximately 500,000 acres of land across the…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:51
Politics and corruption
After speaking on climate change Boris Johnson told the media he ‘genuinely believes the UK is not a corrupt country’. But sleaze accusations continue. MPs' second jobs are under scrutiny after Owen Paterson was found to…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:48
Covid gene doubling death risk
British scientists have identified a gene that doubles the risk of dying from Covid-19, opening up possibilities for targeted medicine and providing new insights into why some people are more susceptible to the disease than others.…