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Britain swapped sugar for sweeteners in 2018 and has not measured what children drink since 2003. We read the cancer rulings, the regulators' files and the funding lines of the key studies. Industry paid for much of the reassurance. The evidence shows no cancer link. Nobody in the UK is checking.
· 22 min read · 48 sources
A year after every practice in England was told to keep its online form open all day, requests have nearly trebled, patients say contact is easier, and GPs are in open dispute with the government. We went through the data to answer the question that matters: after you press submit, do you get seen?
· 12 min read · 28 sources
Nearly nine in ten young people use AI tools, most teachers now use them every week, and the government is paying eight companies to build AI tutors for disadvantaged pupils. A guide to what is actually happening in UK schools, what the evidence says, and who wants what.
· 13 min read · 20 sources
Five directors of the tutoring profession's membership body quit this month. The Companies House filings, accounts, constitution and AGM papers show a fast-growing body that pays its officers, contracts with its president's company, and whose register of directors does not match its own board list.
· 15 min read · 20 sources
A military review, a state dinner with the AI industry's biggest names, two pandas and a 90-minute Oval Office meeting with no readout. Here is the day sorted into three columns: agreed, announced, and merely discussed.
· 5 min read · 12 sources
Twenty-one people fell ill in a week and two died after a night out in March. A new genetic analysis by UKHSA and Oxford finds the strain had borrowed genes from harmless throat bacteria, and that the same changes may explain why it burned out.
· 4 min read · 10 sources
