The Scale of a Hidden Crisis Over the past decade, NHS Scotland has paid more than half a billion pounds in compensation to patients harmed by clinical negligence — a figure that represents not merely a financial liability, but a…
A data centre in Vineland, New Jersey, linked to a major Microsoft infrastructure deal operated 62 gas-fired generators without the required environmental permits for close to a year, releasing what independent experts estimate to be approximately 140 tons of nitrogen…
Google has lodged appeals against two European Union regulatory orders that would compel the company to share its search data with rival search engines and open its Android ecosystem to competing artificial intelligence developers. The appeals, filed Monday with the…
On a bank holiday weekend in Polperro, a harbour village on Cornwall’s southern coast, untreated sewage forced its way through the harbour wall and into the water below. Families were nearby. The sea was open. The company responsible had alarms…
Seven days. That is the window Israel has given Dutch diplomats stationed in Ramallah to surrender their Israeli-issued credentials and, in effect, sever their operational presence in the occupied West Bank. The deadline is not a bureaucratic formality. It is…
The instructions are modest enough on their face: keep some cash in a drawer, store a few litres of bottled water, make room in the cupboard for tinned food. Yet when those words come from a Defence Secretary on the…
The price of oil does not lie about the state of a war. Brent crude surged more than three percent on Thursday after Yemen’s Houthi movement claimed missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s state energy giant Aramco and a…
A Long Investigation Reaches Its Conclusion Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a €403 million fine on Google following a six-year investigation into the company’s handling of users’ location data — a penalty that closes, at least formally, one…
The appeal came quietly but with unmistakable intent. Speaking after France moved to have Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov removed from the European Union’s Russia sanctions list, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Vsevolod Chentsov, made Kyiv’s position…
In the early eighteenth century, Jersey’s economy ran on wool. Skilled hands across the Channel Island worked fine knitting frames, producing garments that found markets across Europe, until mechanisation made the craft uneconomical and the industry collapsed. What followed was…