7 h. ago Why are drug prices so high in America? Trump doesn’t have the right answer | Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron

Americans are not paying high prices because of other western countries. Pharmaceutical companies are to blame When Donald Trump spoke about drug prices on 19 December, he struck a familiar note. Americans, he said, were paying far too much for medicines – and it was everyone else’s fault.There would be no talk of reining in private insurers or pharmaceutical profits. Instead, Trump blamed foreign governments for getting a better deal. Countries like France, Germany and Japan, he argued, were piggybacking on the United States by keeping their drug prices low.Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron are the authors of Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health (Oxford University Press) Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Exponential’ rise in mountain rescues threatens to overwhelm services as social media fuels risk

‘If it carries on like this, we won’t be able to respond’

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9 d. ago Judi Dench warns social media is fueling a ‘lack of interest in the arts’

The 91-year-old actress voiced her fears ahead of the release of Sky Arts’ Tea With Judi Dench

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1 week ago Brown University shooting: New details on suspect emerge in Rhode Island press conference

A gunman dressed in black opened fire at the Providence, Rhode Island campus on Saturday afternoon, killing at least two and critically wounding eight others

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2 w. ago What is rage bait? The Oxford University Press word of the year

Although social media technologies are relatively new, the ways we understand and navigate our world are not

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2 w. ago Coroner's swipe at 'silly' selfie culture after teen kills three pals in horror crash

A coroner exploring the deaths has issued a selfie warning after the court heard Spencer "had a history of bad driving", adding social media is fuelling the "requirement" for dangerous behaviour

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3 w. ago Warning over fake 'miracle' weightloss drug as professor says people are in 'panic'

Weight-loss expert Professor Franklin Joseph has warned that social media has fuelled a rise in dangerous counterfeit weightloss drugs

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3 w. ago Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina

The 79-year-old president’s social media blitz included conspiracies, attacks on political foes and self-praiseFrom apparently nodding off in the Oval Office to a work day that often only begins in the afternoon, questions have swirled in recent weeks about the energy levels of 79-year-old Donald Trump, the oldest-ever US president.Yet on social media, the commander in chief is showing no signs of fatigue. In a furious spree Monday night on his preferred social media paltform, Truth Social, Trump posted 160 times in less than four hours, a maelstrom of messaging surpassing previous prolific bouts of ranting. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Social media is 'chipping away at attention spans' and 'fuelling bad behaviour'

Sir Martyn Oliver used his annual report to state the influence of social media “clearly plays a part” in driving disruptive behaviour

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3 w. ago California shooting marks 17th US mass killing this year – a 20

Experts warn this likely points to ‘regression to mean’ after recent spike in mass killings rather than continued declineA shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing in the US this year – the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database that tracks them.The mass killings – defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer – are tracked in a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Mansplaining’ was once a contender for word of the year. Here’s why we should stop using it

‘Rage bait’ is Oxford word of the year in 2025. But I think we should be able to decommission words that have brought more trouble than they’re worth, starting with the 2015 runner-upThe Oxford word of the year has been chosen, and it’s “rage bait”. It was a close-run contest with “aura farming” – that just means charisma, for which a number of perfectly fine words already exist – and “biohack”, a non-specific lifestyle improvement in which you’ve somehow got into the mainframe of time itself, and made some aspect of your body immune to its ravages. Since “aura farming” is extraneous and “biohacks” are almost all bollocks, the competition can’t have been that close, but the neologism isn’t necessarily welcome.Rage bait, as you probably already know, is the publication, usually online, of material designed to make people angry. It’s not a made-up phenomenon; we’ve known for some time that online engagement is most strongly driven by out-group animosity, but nor is it a cute feature o...

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3 w. ago Rage Bait Meaning: What is rage bait and why is it the Oxford Word of the Year 2025?

Something which many of us may have fallen victim to has been selected as the Oxford Word of the Year.

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3 w. ago 'Rage bait’ named Oxford University Press word of year as outrage fuels social media traffic in 2025

Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025

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3 w. ago 'Rage bait' is named Oxford word of the year: Phrase describing anger

The word refers to social media posts which are deliberately controversial, provocative or misinformed in order to drive engagement through angry reactions.

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3 w. ago ‘Rage bait’ named word of the year by Oxford University Press

Existence of phrase – to describe content intended to make you angry – shows people are aware of manipulation tactics used online, says Oxford Dictionary publisherGood news for those who find their blood pressure rising as they scroll through their online news feeds: the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher has highlighted the term they might need to describe how they often feel, naming “rage bait” as its word of the year.According to the Oxford University Press’ analysis, use of the phrase has tripled in the past 12 months. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rage bait: Expert explains what Oxford word of the year means

"Rage bait" has been declared Oxford Word of the Year 2025.

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3 w. ago UK's word of the year declared as 'Rage Bait' while 'aura farming' and 'biohack' lose out

According to Oxford lexicographers, the phrase perfectly encapsulated the mood of the year as a phenomenon whose usage has tripled in the past year, according to Oxford’s data

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3 w. ago 'Rage Bait' declared 2025 word of the year – here's what it means

According to Oxford lexicographers, the phrase perfectly encapsulated the mood of the year as a phenomenon whose usage has tripled in the past year, according to Oxford’s data

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