Poles in Britain are frightened. Since the UK voted to leave the EU, British nationalists have felt free to spew their xenophobic bile against immigrants, particularly those from Poland. The far-right accuses the roughly 800,000 Poles living there of “stealing British jobs, scarfing up (mis-using) British benefits and committing crimes against Britons”. It’s now scattering …
ComRes interviewed 1,000 UK adults by telephone between the 14th and 17th July 2016 for BBC Radio 5 Live to ask them how they felt about Brexit a month after the referendum. Amongst other findings, 61% of those asked did not think referendums should be used to make major decisions about Britain’s future. 68% of …
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“I put lipstick on a pig. I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead …
“Martyrdom… the only way in which a man can become famous without ability”. (George Bernard Shaw, quoted in The Times)
There has been a decline in new cases of diabetes in US adults at a time when most despaired of the relentless upward trend. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new cases fell from 1.7 million in 2008 to 1.4 million in 2014 – the first consistent drop since 1990, although …
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