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Time off for good behaviour?

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - January 8, 2024.

A baby born during the Covid pandemic is now three years  old. Do you think we should fret about whether these children can manage to...

Honours and Dishonours

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - January 1, 2024.

Every year that is drawing to a close in the UK has a potential to offer us a bit of excitement  to assuage the disappointment...

Progress on UK-US trade frozen in election year

UK Harvey Morris - December 27, 2023.

Britain’s ruling Conservative party is entering a problematic election year with progress on a manifesto goal of securing a free trade agreement with the United...

That Christmas Thing

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - December 25, 2023.

Christmas, of course, arrives annually in a multifarious variety in many different countries, regardless of any national religion.  I’ve experienced how it’s celebrated throughout Europe,...

In a year of crisis some victims of news fatigue are simply switching off

UK Harvey Morris - December 20, 2023.

The coming festive season offers the opportunity for a brief respite from news fatigue and crisis overload, stress syndromes that the experts tell us have...

UK Conservatives running out of time and options to reverse polling decline

UK Harvey Morris - December 13, 2023.

Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, as the ruling Conservatives are wont to regard themselves, picked a bad time to have a meltdown. In an ominous prelude...

Learning the Foreign Lingo

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - December 11, 2023.

The British - and the Americans - are notoriously reluctant to learn foreign languages, generally on the basis that it is unnecessary, given that English...

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