There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Doing serious damage: how sunburn leads to skin cancer
Watch out sunbathers: photons of ultraviolet radiation can directly change the DNA inside living cells — with deadly results, write ROX MIDDLETON, JOEL HELLEWELL and LIAM SHAW
Sunbathers in New Brighton, Wirral, last Saturday July 17, 2021
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THE current spell of hot weather in Britain has led to the Met Office issuing its first ever “extreme heat warning.” Aside from the damaging effects of the heat, another danger of sunny weather is ultraviolet radiation (UV).
UV damages the skin, leading to sunburn and potentially to skin cancer. The form of cancer most associated with sun damage is melanoma, where melanocytes (skin cells which produce pigment) begin uncontrolled growth, forming tumours that start shallow but can spread to the rest of the body.
Increases in temperature such as we are currently enduring have no direct effect on the risk of sunburn. However, clear skies that are free of clouds to absorb some of the UV radiation and the urge to spend more time outdoors soaking up the rays both contribute to a greater risk of high UV exposure.
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While politicians condemned fascist bombing of Spanish civilians in 1937, they ignored identical RAF tactics across the colonies. Today’s aerial warfare continues this pattern of applying different moral standards based on geography and race, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The distinction between domestic and military drones is more theoretical than practical, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
