Donald Trump recently dismissed Sir Keir Starmer with a barbed remark: the British prime minister, he said, was “no Churchill”. It was a typically Trumpian flourish, provocative, theatrical, designed for social media headlines. Yet by his standards it was almost restrained. He might easily have added, more devastatingly, what Starmer actually is rather than what he is not.

One of the UK’s largest and most visited attractions, Chester Zoo, is leading a nationwide push to change how weather forecasts are displayed on popular apps - warning that misleading rain icons could be costing some venues up to £137,000 in a single day.

On the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith's vision of freedom and competition remains as relevant as ever. A new IEA paper argues that The Wealth of Nations remains one of the most important guides to prosperity ever written, and that Smith's core model has been vindicated by modern evidence.

Last week GLL, the social enterprise which runs Better Leisure Centres in Westmorland and Furness, welcomed Director for Primary Care and Community Transformation and the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme NHS England, Dr Minal Bakhai MBE, to Kendal Leisure Centre.

Over the last few weeks, we have seen a dizzying array of policy announcements on local government finance – from the final settlement and the outcome of the fair funding review to the takeover of SEND deficits and the new councils receiving Exceptional Financial Support (EFS).

Yorkshire leaders, businesses, farmers, food producers, and many more are working with citizens from across the UK to shape a new government Food Strategy. York & North Yorkshire was the second of the What Works Here Inquiries and involved representatives from across the region's food system coordinated by Deliciously Yorkshire. The Inquiries are being led by the Citizen Advisory Council (CAC), a group of citizens from across the UK, who are working with government to understand the way food works in York & North Yorkshire, the challenges for many families in affording healthy, local produce and how national government could help.

A study to encourage more Black men to get checked for prostate cancer, led by a University of Sunderland researcher, has received a funding boost of almost half a million pounds to continue its work on a larger scale.

Savers in the North of England are being urged to shop around for tax-free returns as new analysis reveals a widening gap between the market’s best and worst-performing Cash ISAs. Data from Investec Save shows that while the top 10 one-year fixed-rate ISAs average 4.11%, the lowest-paying accounts on the market offer just 3.15%.

No credible forecast shows UK oil and gas demand falling to zero by 2050, even under net zero scenarios – oil and gas are essential ingredients in plastics, fertilisers, medicines and modern technology. The 78% headline tax rate is forcing a decline in North Sea production and driving investment overseas, with the workforce forecast to halve to as low as 57,000 by the early 2030s – losing up to 1,000 jobs a month. Replacing domestic production with imports increases overall emissions by around 50% and risks gas shortages on cold winter days as early as 2026/27.

New research into the link between longer stays in A&E and mortality rates makes a significant contribution to the evidence about the consequences of overcrowding in Emergency Departments. That’s the key message from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine following a new study on delay-related harm in EDs which was published in the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) today, 12 February.

Long-distance train operator CrossCountry has unveiled the first refurbished train of its Voyager fleet - marking the start of a £75 million investment to deliver a brighter, more comfortable experience for passengers across Britain.