Section: UK

Taking a pet on holiday to the EU has become costly and complicated since Brexit. Pet owners are now faced with difficult choices.

Nigel Beevor writes about Britain’s past as a Great Power during the British Empire, which led to Churchill, Atlee and Macmillan’s government believing we deserved special treatment post-WWII. But after the 2016 EU referendum, Britain no longer holds the same status.

The 2021 UK Census had a tick-box for Roma for the first time. Gypsies and Irish travellers were only put in the census for the first time in 2011. “Gypsy” by Cernavoda is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Gypsies and Travellers are 0.5% of population in Kent The results revealed 58,000 Gypsies and Irish travellers, the majority in the […]

Magdalena Williams writes about Au Pairs, and the benefits for both young people, and host families. The Au Pair exchange programme has become increasingly difficult since Brexit though.

Opt out of job-related private health insurance – you get taxed on it, and it saps the NHS by enriching the private health companies

Charlotte Lebon looks at why some plants may become unaffordable in British garden centres next year now that Brexit regulations have taken effect

The UK’s Green Roof environmental subsidy programme collapses in tatters

750,000 young oak trees due for planting may be destroyed by nursery owners who blame delays in government help for woodland creation.

The average male lamb has just six or seven months of skipping around before slaughter, with October being the peak killing month.

How many people who decided on the spur of the moment to get a sweet puppy have considered the animal’s needs?