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Home Barbados offers lessons for debt relief in future crises Barbados offers lessons for debt relief in future crises Adapting the country’s natural disaster clauses can help maintain solvency in poor countries World Economy News 28 Jun 2021 • 3 min read Never again. That was the imperative that in July 1944 sent delegates from 44 nations to meet in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to refashion the postwar international economic system. Beca...

Make Britain smoke-free by 2030, demands cross-party group in call for action to tackle an industry that ‘kills people for profit’

Will the SRA’s drubbing in Beckwith inhibit its longer-term efforts to curb sexual misconduct in the legal profession? And should we take at face value pledges by law firms that they will get serious when confronted by such allegations? Eduardo Reyes reports.

Five local authorities take matters into own hands amid Covid outdoor eating culture

Culture has opened its doors again. Follow the hashtag #LetsdoLondon for more but for now let me talk you through some of the June highlights

Cancers associated with smoking are caused “almost entirely for profit”, England’s chief medical officer has said. In a lecture to Gresham College, Professor Chris Whitty said that there had been “almost no improvement” in lung cancer mortality over time and that it was a “largely preventable” cancer. More people could die this year from smoking than Covid-19, he said. He also raised concern about “slow” advances in medical science for dementia. Prof Whitty said: “This is no...

Professor Chris Whitty said that more people could die this year from smoking than Covid.

Professor Chris Whitty said that more people could die this year from smoking than Covid.

Cancers associated with smoking are caused “almost entirely for profit”, England’s chief medical officer has said. In a lecture to Gresham College, Professor Chris Whitty said that there had been “almost no improvement” in lung cancer mortality over time and that it was a “largely preventable” cancer. More people could die this year from smoking than Covid-19, he said. He also raised concern about “slow” advances in medical science for dementia. Prof Whitty said: “This is no...

Chris Whitty today attacked tobacco companies who kill for profit as he warned that smoking has caused more deaths than Covid in the past year. Englands chief medical officer said lung cancer, the UKs the most common cancer killer, is almost entirely caused by greedy cigarette firms making money from addiction. He added that smoking killed more than 90,000 people in the country last year – compared to around 80,000 deaths caused by Covid-19. In a lecture on public health at Gresham College, P...