“While there can be areas where the United States and China can cooperate, big power competition is more likely to dominate the relationship even with the existing familiarity that Biden and Xi have… The relationship is heading south and the best the two leaders can do is keep the rate of descent as gradual as possible.” … [Read more...] about Xi Jinping congratulates Joe Biden on election win
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Eve reveals she’s leaving The Talk after four seasons following staff’s ‘fears she would quit’
The source said: “Diversity is really important to the network. Elaine is young and cool and a journalist so she has credibility and the ability to have an intelligent conversation. … [Read more...] about Eve reveals she’s leaving The Talk after four seasons following staff’s ‘fears she would quit’
Analgesic culture: can reframing pain make it go away?
In an article for the British Psychological Society blog, Christopher Eccleston, director of the Centre for Pain Research at the University of Bath, wrote: ‘The 21st-century world we live in can be characterised as an ‘analgesic culture’, one in which we work to avoid pain and distress. When the avoidance of pain fails our first thoughts are that any pain should be short-lived, diagnostically relevant, treatable and a cause for empathy, sympathy or social assistance.” When we experience pain that doesn’t meet that criteria, that pain hurts more; the flaw in our relationship with pain is based on our expectation that we shouldn’t have to suffer it. … [Read more...] about Analgesic culture: can reframing pain make it go away?
Boris Johnson hails ‘glad tidings of great joy’ in Christmas message after historic £660bn Brexit trade deal
"With the UK’s share of fish in our waters rising substantially, from roughly half today, to closer to 2/3 in five and a half years’ time after which there is no theoretical limit beyond those placed by science or conservation on the quantity of our own fish that we can fish in our waters." … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson hails ‘glad tidings of great joy’ in Christmas message after historic £660bn Brexit trade deal
Harrowing new ad campaign to guilt-trip Brits into staying home hits TV screens amid deadly new strain
While the R number is heading in the right direction, experts warn that it remains dangerously close to the crucial 1 value. … [Read more...] about Harrowing new ad campaign to guilt-trip Brits into staying home hits TV screens amid deadly new strain