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NHS failing teens with mental health needs 

  The number of UK teens requesting help for anxiety has increased by a third in just the past two years, and NHS has yet to respond with more funding or support for adolescent mental health.   In the BMJ, Collette Isabel Stadler calls out the NHS for its shoddy...

The market for antibiotics is a “disaster”

  The Wellcome Trust’s Jeremy Farrar is all but begging for action to shore up the failing antibiotics market.   Decades of weak investment in antibiotics has left “perilously few” companies involved in antibiotic development—a market crisis unfolding alongside the...

AEROPONICS TAKES FLIGHT

                  by Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor   There’s a shortage in arable farmland – a challenge we’ll take on in future pieces at The Economic Standard – but there’s plenty of room to farm up rather than out, via vertical farming.  As you’re clearly...
Brexit: More Kafka or Monty Python?

Brexit: More Kafka or Monty Python?

                By Vanora Bennett, TES Europe Editor     Like a bad dream or late era Monty Python sketch, the slow-motion insanity that is Brexit continues with no end in sight. No option appears to command sufficient support in Parliament, reflecting the...

The B-word and two R-words: Remain and Reform

  by Vanora Bennett, TES Contributor   The news that comes out of the radio and TV in and on Britain these days can be summarized in one B-word, and it’s not Brexit. It’s bewilderment. The same Brexit phrases and slogans are endlessly repeated: amendment, amendment,...