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North-South life expectancy gap is getting WORSE with northerners faring particularly early deaths
A new report highlights that the gap in life expectancy between the North and South of England is continuing to widen, with people living in northern regions dying at notably younger ages than those in the south. The findings underline persistent and deepening regional health inequalities across the country, adding to long-running concerns about disparities…
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Senator ripped apart for telling complaining Americans to just ‘stand the pain’ of gas prices amid Trump’s Iran bombardment: ‘You gotta kill a few chickens to scare the monkey’
A Republican US senator has faced sharp criticism after telling Americans frustrated by rising petrol prices to simply “stand the pain,” amid the fallout from President Trump’s bombing campaign against Iran. The remark drew immediate backlash for appearing dismissive of the financial strain ordinary Americans are facing as the conflict pushes fuel costs higher, with…
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Prime Video’s 3-Part ‘Silo’ Replacement Is Still a Streaming Sensation
Prime Video’s sci-fi series Fallout is continuing to perform strongly on streaming charts even as it awaits a third season, having been positioned by the platform as its answer to Apple TV’s acclaimed show Silo. Both series share a similar premise, following people sheltering from catastrophe underground, believing the outside world is fatal, only for…
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Watch Hayley Williams Bring Out Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, Jenny Lewis at Newport Folk Festival
Hayley Williams headlined Friday night at the Newport Folk Festival 2026 with a set billed as “Hayley Williams & Friends,” living up to the name by bringing out a string of guests including Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, Jenny Lewis, Jack Antonoff, Lucy Dacus and several others. The stripped-down performance fitted the festival’s format of established artists…
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DSA co-chair: ‘Establishment Democrats should be worried about the voters’
The article’s contents are unavailable because access to the webpage was denied, apparently due to JavaScript being disabled. As a result, the reported comments from the Democratic Socialists of America co-chair cannot be summarised reliably. The supplied title suggests the piece concerns a warning to establishment Democrats about voter dissatisfaction, but it provides no supporting…
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Chet Atkins’ Heartbreaking Description of Hank Williams Gives New Meaning to This Classic Country Track From 1952
Guitarist Chet Atkins gave a harrowing account of Hank Williams recording “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive” at Castle Studio in June 1952, recalling that Williams was so weak he could only sing a few lines before collapsing into a chair after each take. Atkins’ recollection, cited in Colin Escott’s biography Hank Williams:…
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Nationwide ‘Australia Alert’ emergency test to sound on every mobile phone – with warning issued to those cheating on partners
A nationwide test of Australia’s emergency alert system, referred to as the “Australia Alert” or AUSalert, is set to sound on every mobile phone across the country. The test is designed to check that the emergency warning network functions correctly so that genuine alerts, such as those for bushfires or floods, can reach the public…
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Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies
The Verge’s weekend editor Terrence O’Brien reviews Champagne and Bullets (also released as GetEven and Road to Revenge), a low-budget action film he ranks alongside notorious “so bad they’re good” cult classics like The Room, Troll 2 and Fateful Findings. The film is almost entirely the creation of one man, John De Hart, who wrote,…
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Drivers face being clobbered by tax on workplace parking spaces backed by Andy Burnham, with nearly a dozen town halls drawing up plans to bring in the levy
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, has backed a proposed tax on workplace parking spaces, with around a dozen town halls understood to be drawing up plans to introduce the levy. The charge would require employers to pay a fee for each parking space they provide to staff, with the cost likely to be…
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Sick leave in the Whitehall blob surges under Labour, analysis shows
An analysis reported by the Daily Mail found that sick leave among civil servants in Whitehall has increased since Labour came to power, prompting renewed scrutiny of absence levels within the UK’s central government departments. The figures feed into wider debates about productivity and accountability within the civil service, an institution sometimes dubbed the “Whitehall…