‘Nudging’ is the gentle way of pushing you towards making good choices; think of your nice parents. ‘Sludging’ is the opposite, designed to encourage you to make bad or at least suboptimal decisions; picture the car/insurance/mobile phone/real estate salesmen. They are terms in pop psychology borrowed from behavioural and cognitive sciences. Some governments such as…
The British government has distanced the incoming head of its foreign intelligence service from her grandfather following reports he was a Nazi spy known as “the butcher”. Blaise Metreweli will in the autumn become the first woman to lead MI6 in its 116-year-old history, the British government announced earlier this month. The Daily Mail newspaper…
By Muvija M UK court blocks signing of Chagos Islands deal at last minute LONDON -Britain was temporarily blocked from concluding a deal on the Chagos Islands with Mauritius on Thursday after an eleventh-hour injunction by a London High Court judge, postponing an agreement aimed at securing the future of the U.S.-UK Diego Garcia air…
LONDON — The British government will roll out the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of space. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Thursday that so-called chemical castration…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled proposals to cut net immigration to the country, sparking concerns among Hongkongers about how it will affect the bespoke pathway – British National (Overseas) visa – launched in 2021. While the British government did not reveal whether the proposed measures would cover the BN(O) pathway, it said back…