Jules Robinson outlines the targeted support needed to prevent accidental deaths, and Sara Hazzard urges investment in rehabilitation and the physiotherapy workforce Denis Campbell’s article ( GPs in England too ‘overloaded’ to help older people at risk of falling, say MPs, 3 June ) draws welcome attention to a severe but often overlooked health crisis. Research by the Royal Society for the Preven...
Jules Robinson outlines the targeted support needed to prevent accidental deaths, and Sara Hazzard urges investment in rehabilitation and the physiotherapy workforce Denis Campbell’s article ( GPs in England too ‘overloaded’ to help older people at risk of falling, say MPs, 3 June ) draws welcome attention to a severe but often overlooked health crisis. Research by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) shows that falls are the leading cause of accidental death in the UK, killing over 11,000 people a year, more than 9,000 of whom are aged 75 and over. And this crisis is getting worse, with a 12% increase in the rate of deaths over a single year. Falls are preventable, and should not be regarded as just an inevitable part of ageing. The causes are varied and complex, so intervention must take into account a person’s living environment and access to networks of support as well as their physical and mental health. Such a detailed multifactorial assessment requires not just specialist expertise but far more time than is available within a short GP appointment. RoSPA is calling for equitable access to falls and fracture liaison services, removing the variation in treatment available depending on postcodes. Without such targeted support there is a real risk that fatal falls will continue to increase, taking the lives of vulnerable people in tragic accidents that could be prevented. Jules Robinson RoSPA Continue reading...
Shareholders of Designer Brands Inc (Symbol: DBI) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 2.5% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2027 covered call at the $15 strike and collect the premium based on the 70 cents bid, which annualizes to an additional 13.9% r
Shareholders of Designer Brands Inc (Symbol: DBI) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 2.5% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2027 covered call at the $15 strike and collect the premium based on the 70 cents bid, which annualizes to an additional 13.9% r
Announcement that ‘policymakers’ need to be convened by US firm viewed as marketing ploy by some experts Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development – and said it was going to convene “policymakers” to discuss the dangers of advanced AI – in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products. In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress...
Announcement that ‘policymakers’ need to be convened by US firm viewed as marketing ploy by some experts Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development – and said it was going to convene “policymakers” to discuss the dangers of advanced AI – in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products. In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress of its AI model, Claude, towards “recursive self improvement” – that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. Recursive self-improvement is a bugbear of AI safety researchers, viewed as the key step for AI to become superintelligent and therefore unleash widespread consequences on humanity. Continue reading...
A Lululemon store inside a shopping mall in Shanghai. Photo: VCG. Lululemon Athletica Inc. cut its full-year sales outlook after first-quarter net profit fell 38.1%, as weak demand in North America offset strong growth in the Chinese mainland. The downgrade underscores the athletic-apparel maker’s struggle to sustain momentum in its core markets, where it faces intensifying competition from brands...
A Lululemon store inside a shopping mall in Shanghai. Photo: VCG. Lululemon Athletica Inc. cut its full-year sales outlook after first-quarter net profit fell 38.1%, as weak demand in North America offset strong growth in the Chinese mainland. The downgrade underscores the athletic-apparel maker’s struggle to sustain momentum in its core markets, where it faces intensifying competition from brands including Alo Yoga and Vuori, as well as a series of public-relations challenges involving its founder and a U.S. regulatory inquiry.
Joan McGavin shares a unique memory of the late poet, playwright and novelist I was saddened to read your obituary for Maureen Duffy ( 3 June ) but also interested to discover that her early 1980s novel Gor Saga had been reissued under the title First Born in 2024. Duffy is the only writer I have heard give an all-night reading of their novel – here in Southampton – if I remember rightly under the...
Joan McGavin shares a unique memory of the late poet, playwright and novelist I was saddened to read your obituary for Maureen Duffy ( 3 June ) but also interested to discover that her early 1980s novel Gor Saga had been reissued under the title First Born in 2024. Duffy is the only writer I have heard give an all-night reading of their novel – here in Southampton – if I remember rightly under the aegis of David Benedictus, who was a resident writer in the city in the early 1980s. Continue reading...
Peter Hoekstra, US ambassador to Canada nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Hoekstra served as US ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump's first term, Ronald Johnson served as US ambassadro to El Salvador during Trump's first term, and George Glass was US ambassador to Portug...
Peter Hoekstra, US ambassador to Canada nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Hoekstra served as US ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump's first term, Ronald Johnson served as US ambassadro to El Salvador during Trump's first term, and George Glass was US ambassador to Portugal during Trump's first term. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
Investors choosing between iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEMKT:LQD) and Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (NYSEMKT:SCHQ) must weigh lower costs and Treasury safety against the higher returns of corporate credit. These two funds provide distinct paths for fixed-income exposure, helping investors balance yield and safety. the iShares fund targets a broad basket of investmen...
Investors choosing between iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEMKT:LQD) and Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (NYSEMKT:SCHQ) must weigh lower costs and Treasury safety against the higher returns of corporate credit. These two funds provide distinct paths for fixed-income exposure, helping investors balance yield and safety. the iShares fund targets a broad basket of investment-grade corporate bonds, while the Schwab fund focuses exclusively on the long end of the U.S. Treasury market. Each carries different risks regarding credit quality and interest rate sensitivity in changing economic environments. Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year monthly returns. The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. Dividend yield is the trailing-12-month distribution yield. Continue reading
HAWTHORNE, Calif., June 05, 2026--FutureCorp LLC (together with its affiliates, "FutureCorp"), a new investment firm that seeks to connect frontier economies with public-market investors, has announced its launch. FutureCorp expects to sponsor publicly listed vehicles focused on next decade's frontier economies. This will include a series of special purpose acquisition companies and publicly trade...
HAWTHORNE, Calif., June 05, 2026--FutureCorp LLC (together with its affiliates, "FutureCorp"), a new investment firm that seeks to connect frontier economies with public-market investors, has announced its launch. FutureCorp expects to sponsor publicly listed vehicles focused on next decade's frontier economies. This will include a series of special purpose acquisition companies and publicly traded funds holding late-stage private companies. FutureCorp's first frontier is space. The firm's first
Hong Kong police have arrested a 65-year-old man in connection with a suspected indecent assault case in Mong Kok hours after footage appeared online showing a passenger harassing a schoolgirl sitting in front of him on a bus. Police said officers intercepted the suspect at the boundary checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The victim, 17, is understood to be a Form Three student. The i...
Hong Kong police have arrested a 65-year-old man in connection with a suspected indecent assault case in Mong Kok hours after footage appeared online showing a passenger harassing a schoolgirl sitting in front of him on a bus. Police said officers intercepted the suspect at the boundary checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The victim, 17, is understood to be a Form Three student. The incident took place at around noon on Friday as the KMB bus was stopping near an intersection of Mong...
Kathryn Monk says nutritious, naturally gluten-free food is widespread in cuisines of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America Your article on the rising cost of gluten-free foods highlights a genuine problem ( Gluten-free basics ‘now a luxury’ as price of a small branded loaf nears £4, 30 May ). However, I was struck by how narrowly the discussion was framed. Much of the article focuses on...
Kathryn Monk says nutritious, naturally gluten-free food is widespread in cuisines of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America Your article on the rising cost of gluten-free foods highlights a genuine problem ( Gluten-free basics ‘now a luxury’ as price of a small branded loaf nears £4, 30 May ). However, I was struck by how narrowly the discussion was framed. Much of the article focuses on the affordability and availability of gluten-free versions of bread, biscuits, breakfast cereals and other wheat-based products. Yet for much of the world’s population, diets have traditionally been based on rice, maize, millet, cassava, pulses and other naturally gluten-free staples. Continue reading...
The recent rotation out of AI-linked stocks highlights the risks of a narrow market rally. As concentration risk rises, defensive ETFs could help investors build more resilient portfolios.
The recent rotation out of AI-linked stocks highlights the risks of a narrow market rally. As concentration risk rises, defensive ETFs could help investors build more resilient portfolios.
Population fears | Pure, cold rage | Protest arrests | Broom v leaf blower Surely the old will be cared for by robots while watching endless pictures of kittens ( The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration?, 31 May ). As the population falls, there will be a glut of housing, which will become affordable, and so women will be...
Population fears | Pure, cold rage | Protest arrests | Broom v leaf blower Surely the old will be cared for by robots while watching endless pictures of kittens ( The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration?, 31 May ). As the population falls, there will be a glut of housing, which will become affordable, and so women will be able to have more children and the cycle will begin again, assuming that one or other of the megalomaniacs haven’t blown us all to smithereens first. Mary Bolton Chiswick, London • Nigel Farage has called for “pure, cold rage” ( Starmer urges calm as far right seeks to exploit Henry Nowak murder, 2 June ). Strangely enough, this is precisely what I have felt since he and his cronies cheated me out of my EU membership back in 2016. Shane Roberts Easton, Bristol Continue reading...
US job growth topped all forecasts in May and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, offering the clearest sign yet that the labor market may be breaking out of a prolonged period of lackluster hiring. Frances Donald, Chief Economist at RBC, discusses the jobs data and what it signals for the US economy as inflation begins to outpace wage growth. (Source: Bloomberg)
US job growth topped all forecasts in May and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, offering the clearest sign yet that the labor market may be breaking out of a prolonged period of lackluster hiring. Frances Donald, Chief Economist at RBC, discusses the jobs data and what it signals for the US economy as inflation begins to outpace wage growth. (Source: Bloomberg)
Crew previously told to enter docked spacecraft and don spacesuits in case an air leak worsened Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have been told to return to normal duties after previously being on evacuation alert due to a worsening air leak. The four astronauts of Nasa’s Crew-12 mission on the station – two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut – received ord...
Crew previously told to enter docked spacecraft and don spacesuits in case an air leak worsened Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have been told to return to normal duties after previously being on evacuation alert due to a worsening air leak. The four astronauts of Nasa’s Crew-12 mission on the station – two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut – received orders from Nasa mission control at 9.04am ET (2.04pm BST) on Friday to enter their Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the station and don their spacesuits in case the air leak warranted an emergency evacuation, a Nasa official said. Continue reading...