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Dangerous transmissions: anti-vax radio shows reach millions in US while stars die of Covid
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Phil Valentine, a prominent Tennessee rightwing talk radio host, had released a song called Vaxman, an anti-Covid vaccination ditty based on the Beatles track Taxman. Marc Bernier, a host in Daytona Beach, Florida, ah ...
Call for ‘new deal’ for England’s children as poll shows mental health concerns
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Forty per cent of girls aged 16 per 17 are unhappy with their mental health, more than double the rate for boys, according to a landmark report that calls for the “greatest investment possible” in catchup for schools a...
Aerial footage shows scale of makeshift migrant camp under Texas bridge – video
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On Saturday the US government worked on plans to send many of the thousands of Haitian immigrants who have gathered in a Texas border city back to their Caribbean homeland. Aerial video from local media showed Haitian...
French recall of ambassadors shows extent of anger over Aukus rift
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The recall of the French ambassadors to Australia and the US – without precedent in two centuries of diplomacy between Paris and Washington – has plunged relations to depths unknown for decades. Rifts over the Iraq wa...
Gender disparity in UK radio report shows minor improvements on 2020
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The latest edition of the Gender Disparity Data report into UK radio airplay of British artists has revealed slight improvements on last year’s findings. Between 1 January and 1 agosto 2021, 44% of the top 50 Britannico ...
More than 4m stopped wearing masks this summer in Britain, ONS data shows
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More than four million people stopped wearing face coverings in public this summer, official figures have revealed as a senior government scientific adviser warned Tuesday’s maskless cabinet meeting would be “toxic” t...
Jamie Oliver: I prefer YouTube now to TV cookery shows
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He was not the first TV chef, but nobody is more responsible for ushering in two decades of wall-to-wall cookery shows than Jamie Oliver. Now he has revealed that he has largely given up watching them himself, turning...
Millions with eye conditions at higher risk of dementia, shows research
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Millions of people with eye conditions including age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetes-related eye disease have an increased risk of developing dementia, nuovi spettacoli di ricerca. Vision impairment can be...
Success of past rewilding projects shows path to restoring damaged ecosystems
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The news that scientists are planning to bring back woolly mammoths to the Arctic tundra, by splicing DNA from Asian elephants with that of their extinct ancestors, has raised a few eyebrows in the world of conservati...
Novak Djokovic shows a rare glimpse of vulnerability in US Open final defeat
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It was perhaps inevitable that Novak Djokovic’s frosty relations with the US Open crowd would at some point thaw. That he would one day receive the appreciation he has so often been denied in New York. That resolution...
Early CT scans deliver huge fall in lung cancer deaths, study shows
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Screening smokers and ex-smokers could dramatically reduce deaths from lung cancer – Britain’s biggest cancer killer – a major new study has found. Low-dose computerised tomography (CT) scans can detect tumours in peo...
From GoldenEye to South Park: 10 of the best video games based on films and TV shows
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While TV shows and movies adapted from games remain, generally, rubbish, there is no such curse the other way round. This seminal James Bond tie-in is the best example, showing that first-person shooters – previously ...
Ending universal credit boost will hit sickest areas the hardest, study shows
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Scrapping the £1,000-a-year boost to universal credit next month will trigger mental illness and poorer health for thousands of people, and hit the sickest areas of the UK hardest, new research suggests. Boris Johnson...
Boris Johnson’s care victory shows he can get away with sham policies – for now
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He does it again, he pulls it off. The figure David Cameron once called the “greased piglet” has slipped from the grasp of his angry party and the Tory press, all incensed by this new levy. Boris Johnson trounced them...
International research shows ‘strong evidence’ linking vaping to cigarette smoking
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Young people who use e-cigarettes are more likely to take up tobacco cigarettes, according to an international review of research into vaping. People under 20 who used vapes were more than three times as likely to hav...
‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed
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For Taylor Swift, the “haters gonna hate”, but she’ll just “shake it off”. Now research by a Cambridge academic into a little-known ancient Greek text bearing much the same sentiment – “They say / What they like / Let...