Low morale is leading professionals to leave the service or try to cut back on hours. London: Fatme Ibryanova, 36, will travel from Britain to Turkey next month, not to holiday but for a medical appointment about surgery she is struggling to get on the UK’s “broken” state-run health service. The NHS, created after World...
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UK’s Sunak and Starmer struggle to be heard as a noisy protest mars their final election debate
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer struggled to get their messages across in the first half of their fiery final televised debate of the U.K. election campaign on Wednesday as protesters drowned out their answers. The two politicians vying to become Britain’s leader after the July 4...
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South Korea is running out of children – and Britain could be next
For South Korea’s kindergarten teachers, the national dearth of children due is already painfully evident and impacting their career prospects. The country’s record-low birth rates are projected to cause the closure of roughly one-third of daycare centres and kindergartens by 2028, a report by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education warned in January....
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Tory voters in UK turn to anti-immigration Reform party
By Sylvia Hui | Associated Press CLACTON-ON-SEA, England — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a doctor’s appointment through Britain’s state-run health care system. Local buses have been canceled. There isn’t enough public housing. Like many others in Clacton-on-Sea — a town on England’s...
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Armageddon is upon us, and Britain will never be the same again
Make the most of living in Conservative Britain: Armageddon is upon us. In a little over a week, the Tory government – that last, oh-so-imperfect, infuriatingly porous roadblock to Left-wing hegemony – will have been obliterated. The removal vans, symbols of regime change, will be on their way. Parliament, the last major institution in Britain...
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What an election betting scandal says about British politics and culture
LONDON — Beset by an almost unending run of bad luck and embarrassing scandal, the ruling Conservative Party in Britain — expected to lose the election next week, big time — has taken a loaded gun and pointed it at their foot. Again. At least five Conservative officials are being investigated by Britain’s gambling watchdog...
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Olympic Relay Analysis: Great Britain Favored in Men’s 800 Free, Americans in Pursuit (Composite Times Included)
Olympic Relay Analysis: Great Britain Favored in Men’s 800 Free, Americans in Pursuit The United States had never missed an Olympic relay podium until 2021, when the men’s 800 freestyle relay group faded out of contention and ended up fourth. But since then, a young group of 200 freestylers have built up international experience, winning...
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Japan condemns ‘intolerable’ US army after soldier charged with rape of teenager
Japan has condemned “intolerable” US troops stationed in the country after a soldier was charged with the sexual assault of a teenager. Prosecutors in Okinawa charged the US soldier in March, Yoshimasa Hayashi, a government spokesman, said. Local media said the 25-year-old man had been accused of assault, adding that he knew the girl was...
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Fed up with the UK Conservatives, some voters turn to the anti-immigration Reform party for answers
CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a doctor’s appointment through Britain’s state-run health care system. Local buses have been canceled. There isn’t enough public housing. Like many others in Clacton-on-Sea — a town on England’s southeast coast where many older,...
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UK general election betting scandal now engulfs Opposition Labour Party
For the Labour Party, having pressured Sunak in the past few days to suspend his betting party colleagues, it was seen as somewhat of an unavoidable move | Photo: Pexels 3 min read Last Updated : Jun 26 2024 | 2:47 PM IST The escalating scandal of candidates placing general election-related bets has widened...
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Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
Squint a little and the letters “UwU” resemble someone with large, cartoonish eyes and a serene smile. The cutesy emoticon is a staple of a certain corner of the internet, in which grown-ups speak to each other in an infantile tone (“I’m just a smol bean”) and adopt feigned helplessness. PREMIUM A British Union flag...
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Four men arrested for ‘trespassing’ at UK PM Rishi Sunak’s home
British police arrested four people Tuesday on suspicion of trespassing after they entered the grounds of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s property in northern England, police said in a statement. Britain’s prime minister Rishi Sunak walks outside 10 Downing Street in London. (Reuters) The arrests come during a general election campaign where Sunak is battling to...