Новости за 31.08.2016

However, although Isis is weakening, its various enemies remain as divided as ever, says Patrick Cockburn in Damascus

Playwright Atiha Sen Gupta explains how her new play Counting Stars, set in a nightclub toilet, makes an audience face up to our current climate of fear

The NHS has lost over 50 percent of its bed capacity in the past 25 years. Our bed to population ratios are now below Eastern European countries. Further hospital closures will simply be disastrous

The schemes are cheap to get up and running, and take little effort to administer. Throw in a bit of publicity so people know about them you and can sit back and rely on the goodwill of able bodied tube passengers or shoppers to be able to chalk up a success

Some of the more outspoken members of the Conservative Party are happy to use the airwaves to voice their vision of Brexit, if that's not too oxymoronic an expression to use about this dismal prospect

Yes, there will be a deal because there has to be. But the relationship initially defined by that deal, whatever it is, will change over the years, just as the UK's membership of the Common Market was gradually transformed into its membership of the EU – but not the two key elements of EU membership, the euro and the Schengen agreement

TTIP has been sacrificed to save the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) and Brexit won't spare us from them

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The reality was no one, not Wilder, not Radner, not the doctors who misdiagnosed her, the doctors who treated her (kindly and unkindly) knew enough to help her

While Corbyn shores up 55 per cent of support in London, it is in the Northern heartlands that the Labour leader finds greater levels of support: 63 per cent to Smith's 37 per cent. Apparently Smith's commitment to a second referendum isn't that attractive to the North, much of which voted for Brexit. Who'd have thought it?

The service aimed at the cash rich and time poor could create an awful lot of extra deliveries

The latest outpost of the London club is not only packed with über-cool design, but also boasts a branch of Italian restaurant Cecconi's that's not to be missed...

Government pushes retirement savers to seek professional advice with tax-free allowance that could mean a significant boost to retirement income.

Despite having flawless skin Twitter said she looked a mess, tired, and even that the singer was lying and wearing BB cream

Music hall meets domestic drama in this revival of John Osborne's classic play

Australian disability activist Carly Findlay wrote "There was no hashtag. No public outcry. Not even prayers"

Transport-led regeneration is the single most important factor boosting the value of homes. These are the new routes you need to know about...

A team of superfans joined forces to write, direct, and produce a series of stop-motion shorts for the Star Wars YouTube channel

A severely underpowered all-Mozart Prom wastes the starry talents of its orchestra and singers

Until all multinational companies are forced to publicly report the profits they make and taxes they pay everywhere they operate, tax dodgers will continue to want to have their cake and eat it

I remember my father being brought back home by the police because he'd been found wandering down the central reservation of a dual carriageway. Understandably, his diagnosis came with a lot of fear. But we need to face up to dementia's realities and tackle the stigma surrounding it