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Brain outline with multi-coloured gears.

What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’

November 14, 2025

Kerem Shalom, Israel – January 10, 2024: A truck carrying large, canvas-covered humanitarian aid packages at the Israel-Gaza Kerem Shalom border crossing.

ICJ tells Israel to let UN aid flow into Gaza – but UN’s own failures throughout the war loom large

November 11, 2025

Sam Fender. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Raph_PH at https://flickr.com/photos/69880995@N04/51386236113. It was reviewed on 21 August 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

Sam Fender wins Mercury prize: ‘Geordie Springsteen’ is voice of a UK ravaged by industrial decline

October 20, 2025

Digital identification or digital ID. Businessman and hand touch virtual screen of digital identification card to accessing databases by digital identity for cyber security.

As the UK plans to introduce digital IDs, what can it learn from pioneer Estonia?

October 8, 2025

Close-up photograph of a girl with chickenpox measles on her neck and face

Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained

September 16, 2025

The government wants local authorities to embrace AI – here’s one way it could work in practice

July 25, 2025

US approves twice-yearly injection for HIV prevention – what you need to know about lenacapavir

July 1, 2025

Ten years after the Modern Slavery Act, why has this ‘world-leading’ legislation had so little impact?

March 27, 2025

An anti AfD protest with people carrying banners in Germany

How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe

March 7, 2025

A photo of a drainage ditch which runs through a field in rural Somerset. The Bristol Channel headland of Brean Down can be seen in the background.

Ditches and canals are a big, yet overlooked, source of greenhouse gas emissions – new study