A new report from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) revealed that people with qualifications below A-level have more than double the likelihood of supporting the Conservatives or Reform UK compared to those with higher levels of education. It found that education divides attitudes on immigration and diversity more sharply in the UK than in the US, with “much wider gaps between graduates and non-graduates”. Some 40% of Americans aged 18–29 said other countries are better than the US, compared to 9% of over-65s. In the UK, roughly half of both the youngest (51%) and oldest (46%) generations agreed that there are other countries better than the UK. “In Britain, education stands out as the most important dividing line, particularly on immigration and diversity.

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Reminding EU ministers how much of today’s economic malaise and immigration scapegoating arose from American failures doesn’t provide a solution. It disavows the inexpensive power projection of hegemony by imagining American hegemony as nothing more than American domination. The full NSS also spends some time discussing the “failure” of American hegemony, a term that isn’t mentioned in the publicly released version. “Yet the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.”I don’t think that’s right at all. I don’t think the person who wrote, “Hegemony is the wrong thing to want” has thought through all the ways that coercion is more likely to backfire.

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But everything suggests that, once more, what will not be addressed at their meeting is the biggest threat to humanity and the planet: neoliberal capitalism. Yet at its core, economic inequality is about much more fundamental issues. Kemp also detects economic inequality as a crucial factor in predicting societal collapse. An increasing proportion of the wealth created under neoliberal capitalism goes to the richest 1%. That is what we need to know about increased economic inequality.

China’s population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to another record low despite the introduction of polices aimed at encouraging people to have children. Yi Fuxian, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said births in 2025 were “roughly the same level as in 1738, when China’s population was only about 150 million”. The effects of the policy, which was lifted in 2017, mean that the pool of people of child-bearing age is also shrinking, as China’s population rapidly ages. China’s death rate of 8.04 for every 1,000 members of the population in 2025 was the highest since 1968. China’s urbanisation rate was 68% in 2025, up from about 43% in 2005.

Donald Trump has linked his repeated threats to seize control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel peace prize, as transatlantic tensions over the Arctic island escalated further and threatened to rekindle a trade war with the EU. Trump campaigned hard to win last year’s prize, which was awarded to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader. In his text message to Støre, Trump said Denmark “cannot protect” Greenland from Russia or China, adding: “Why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? The world was “not secure unless we have Complete and Total control of Greenland”, he said. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he was working closely with EU leaders and called for calm discussion between allies.

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The victim said her husband threatened to take her children away if she ever left himTWISTED LIES Husband, 62, who claimed he was sleepwalking when he raped wife more than 100 times is jailedA DEPRAVED husband, 62, who claimed he was sleepwalking when he raped his wife has been jailed. The court heard he had raped and abused her around once a month for the past decade. However, nothing changed between 2006 and 2017, the jury heard. The court heard she managed to confide in a few close friends about what was unfolding behind closed doors. The defendant told the jury during his trial: “I would not accuse her of lying, I cannot recall.

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A decision on China’s controversial mega-embassy in London is imminent, with Chinese officials and British diplomats in Beijing anxiously awaiting the outcome of a planning application that could soon be approved. MPs from across the political spectrum have condemned the proposal, but UK security services say they can contain the espionage risks posed by the expanded site, which sits close to sensitive data cables linking to the City of London