What are the essentials of life? The U.S. academic Abraham Maslow famously said all humans had basic physiological needs: air, water, food, clothes, warmth and shelter.
Yet in the modern world, could a smartphone legitimately be added to that list?
Sure, I rarely leave the house without mine — I see it as an indispensable tool for work — but I would not say I am addicted to it.
And I would like to think my children are not completely
The moment the doorbell rang, Claire Throssell knew the worst had happened. Hands trembling as she opened the door, she saw a police officer on the doorstep.
Frozen to the spot, she begged him: ‘What has he done?’ The look in the policeman’s eyes confirmed her worst fears.
Claire’s abusive ex-husband, whom she had finally plucked up the courage to leave six months earlier, had done exactly what she had warned the family court he would do if given unsupervised
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Plans by New Zealand’s new government to ditch its world-first smoking ban were today attacked by health experts.
The move, to stop children from taking up the habit, was initially introduced by ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2022. Once implemented next year, anyone born after 2008 would have been banned from ever buying cigarettes.
New Zealand’s new prime minister, Christopher Luxon, said the U-turn would fund tax cuts.
But public health experts said the reversal was ‘extremely concerning’, warning the
Rishi Sunak today formally announced bold plans to ban today’s children from ever being able to buy cigarettes, despite a Tory revolt over his ‘illiberal’ smoke-free ambition.
If the law is eventually given the go ahead, kids born after 2009 will never legally be able to buy tobacco.
The Prime Minister has argued he is building ‘a better future for our children’. Health campaigners, experts and charities have all commended the move, described as the ‘biggest public health intervention in
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Tradies left permanently incapacitated with silicosis have slammed the federal Government for taking so long to ban engineered stone products.
The Albanese Labor government will finally hold ‘initial discussions’ about a Safe Work Australia report considering whether potentially deadly engineered stone should be banned.
More than 600,000 workers across the nation have been exposed to respirable crystalline silica, which can lead to silicosis: a debilitating and incurable form of lung disease.
Unions and tradesmen impacted by the disease have
Rishi Sunak today unveiled bold plans to stamp out the child vaping epidemic and ban kids aged 14 and under from ever legally being able to buy cigarettes.
The proposed law will annually raise the age of legal purchase of tobacco from the current 18 by one additional year every 12 months.
It will see England follow in the footsteps of New Zealand, which last year adopted the same policy for everyone born after 2009. Under the Prime Minister’s proposed
Ministers have said a Zero Emission Vehicle mandate will still be introduced next year, despite Rishi Sunak’s decision to postpone the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035.
The PM addressed the nation on Wednesday to confirm he would roll back a number of net zero deadlines, including when car manufacturers had been told to remove all fossil-fuelled models from showrooms.
The move has cast doubt over the implementation of the ZEV mandate, which
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday afternoon confirmed he has postponed the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars by five years to 2035 to ease the financial burden on Britons.
Announcing his changes to the previous net zero policy, he said: ‘I expect that by 2030 that the vast majority of cars sold will be electric. Why? Because the costs are reducing, the range is improving, the charging infrastructure is growing.
‘People are already choosing electric vehicles to
Chelsea supporters have been left fuming by Anthony Taylor’s appointment to referee their Premier League opener on Sunday. Mauricio Pochettino’s side were already in store for a tough afternoon against Liverpool, and fans’ rocky history with Taylor – which includes a petition to ban him from Blues games – has convinced many that it may not be their day.
One furious Chelsea supporter started the petition in August last year. Since then, it has staggeringly amassed more than 160,000 signatures
