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2024 Good Childhood Report<\/strong><\/a> found that, on average, 16.6 per cent of European youth are dissatisfied with their lives, which is equivalent to about one in six across the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8317444\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//03//20//finland-named-the-worlds-happiest-country-again-in-2024-but-young-people-in-europe-are-str/">Finland named the world's happiest country (again) in 2024 but young people in Europe are struggling<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Netherlands had the lowest rate, with only 6.7 per cent of 15-year-olds reporting not being satisfied with their lives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Nordic countries Finland and Denmark also ranked well, with only 10.8 per cent and 11.3 per cent reporting low life satisfaction respectively.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the UK reported the highest level of low life satisfaction among young people, with 25.2 per cent indicating dissatisfaction, followed closely by Poland (24.4 per cent) and Malta (23.6 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>\"The findings from The Good Childhood Report 2024 are alarming and illustrate an unacceptable picture of children\u2019s wellbeing in the UK. It clearly shows that young people in the UK are experiencing lower well-being and life satisfaction compared to their peers across Europe, and that the well-being of young people is also in decline,\" Jack O\u2019Neill, policy and public affairs manager at The Children\u2019s Society, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/19479368?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The report used data from various sources to analyse youth life satisfaction, including the UK Longitudinal Household Survey, The Children\u2019s Society\u2019s annual survey, and the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Why are UK children the unhappiest in Europe?<\/h2><p>\"When looking at specific measures, we can see that the UK performs notably worse than other European countries. Whilst not any single factor can explain the low ranking overall when particular areas score so poorly, it does suggest their importance in driving this,\" O\u2019Neill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-medium\n widget--align-right\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Two in five children and young people surveyed were worried about rising prices, showing that concerns over making ends meet are filtering down to young people and increasing their worry and concern.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Jack O\u2019Neill\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Policy and public affairs manager, The Children\u2019s Society\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The UK also showed the largest gap in life satisfaction between advantaged and disadvantaged youth, which could point to the impact of socio-economic inequality on children's well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the report revealed that the UK ranked fourth highest in food deprivation, with 11 per cent of 15-year-olds skipping meals due to a lack of money.<\/p>\n<p>\"We also know that the cost-of-living crisis in the UK is impacting the opportunities for young people to have downtime or enjoy socialising with friends or family,\" O\u2019Neill said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many families in the UK reported difficulties in affording holidays, extracurricular activities for their children, and, in some cases, even celebrations and special occasions, with 41 per cent saying they couldn\u2019t afford such events.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 50 per cent of children reported that a lack of money prevented them from participating in activities like socialising or going on school trips.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8095194\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//12//08//this-years-eu-happiness-index-is-out-where-does-your-country-place/">This year's EU happiness index is out. Where does your country place?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Beyond financial limitations, children also expressed significant worries about various life issues, particularly the rising cost of living in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\"Two in five children and young people surveyed were worried about rising prices, showing that concerns over making ends meet are filtering down to young people and increasing their worry and concern,\" O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n<p>Along with rising prices, children were also concerned about crime, online safety, and environmental issues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/19479534?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Moreover, school-related issues have also played a significant role in the declining well-being of children in the UK. In 2024, 14.3 per cent of young people reported being unsatisfied with their school experience.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns around school safety, a sense of belonging, and bullying, of which the UK had the second-highest rate in Europe, are some of the key issues, according to O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n<p>\"We know from international comparison data, and from talking to children and young people, that bullying and the pressures of academic achievement play on children\u2019s minds,\" he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"School should be an opportunity for young people to make lifelong memories, find their inspiration, make friends and have hope for the future, unfortunately this doesn\u2019t seem to be the case for some children, and it is crucial we not only unlock every child\u2019s potential but also unlock their happiness,\" O\u2019Neill added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"6639228\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//03//23//why-do-people-in-nordic-countries-consistently-rank-as-the-happiest-and-what-can-we-learn-/">Why do people in Nordic countries consistently rank as the happiest and what can we learn from them?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Amid the decline in mental health among young people in the UK, the country is also facing significant challenges in providing adequate mental health support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, over 270,000 children are still waiting for further assistance after an initial referral, with long waiting times being a major issue.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the concerns raised by young people during policy consultations, \"they told us how school makes them worried as they are anxious about exams, worried about failing and not hopeful for the future,\" O\u2019Neill noted.<\/p>\n<p>\"They said how parks are being shut down meaning they have nowhere to hang out with their friends; how support for their mental health can only be sought when they have reached a crisis point and that their voices are silenced and they don\u2019t feel heard\".<\/p>\n<h2>Key causes of declining well-being in Europe<\/h2><p>Although the report focuses on the UK, similar trends are being seen across Europe, with reports indicating a decline in well-being among young people in several countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNICEF, the percentage of 15-year-olds reporting high life satisfaction dropped from around 74 per cent in 2018 to 69 per cent in 2022, across 23 countries for which data is available.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/19479095?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One of the key contributing factors include high rates of poverty, with approximately 20 million children in the EU, about one in four, at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to a report by UNICEF.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"It [poverty] has a long term impact on children. It's not just a child living in poverty, and as soon as they grow up and get a job they will be out of it. It affects their bodies, their mind and their prospects as well for the future,\" Dr Ally Dunhill, director of policy, advocacy and communications at Eurochild, told Euronews Health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Dunhill, children growing up in poverty often struggle to afford basic necessities like food, clothing, school supplies, or sports equipment, which limits their participation in normal childhood activities and leads to social isolation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8666204\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//08//20//video-games-could-improve-mental-health-and-life-satisfaction-large-new-study-finds/">Playing video games may have a positive impact on mental health and life satisfaction, study finds<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Poverty also takes a toll on mental health, with children living in poverty more likely to experience stress, anxiety, and depression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, poor nutrition is another critical issue tied to poverty, as families often have easier access to cheap, less nutritious food, which negatively impacts children's physical health both in the short and long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Dunhill further noted that poverty deeply impacts children's ability to engage in school.<\/p>\n<p>\"Those children are really not engaging in education, some of them are not even going to school, or they are going to school but they are so tired, or they\u2019re so cold, or they\u2019re so hungry, they may not be able to sit and learn and listen and engage,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>This lack of educational engagement sets children back and reduces their chances of escaping poverty in the future, creating a cycle where children raised in poverty are more likely to remain poor as adults.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8642852\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//08//12//antidepressant-prescriptions-have-increased-among-young-french-people-since-2019-report-fi/">Antidepressant prescriptions have increased among young French people since 2019, report finds<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The expectation is if we don't do something to lift and support these children out of poverty, then they will grow up and have children that will be living in poverty,\" Dunhill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the rising costs of food, housing, and heating, along with job losses and health challenges, are also pushing even more families in Europe into poverty.<\/p>\n<h2>Online safety and children's well-being<\/h2><p>According to Unicef, when it comes to online safety in Europe, children face various risks in digital spaces, including cyberbullying, exposure to inappropriate content, misinformation, and sexual exploitation, all of which can severely harm their well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Fabiola Bas Palomares, lead policy and advocacy officer at Eurochild, who specialises in online safety, told Euronews Health that while the effects of online usage are complex to measure, the negative impacts of digital media on children, such as addiction, isolation, and reduced social confidence, are undeniable.<\/p>\n<p>Although content moderation tools have made some progress in reducing harmful content, she said the focus should shift to how these platforms are designed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8183216\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//01//19//does-the-number-of-siblings-you-have-harm-your-mental-health-if-you-have-a-large-family-th/">Does the number of siblings you have harm your mental health? If you have a large family, then yes<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"These online platforms, their business model heavily relies on maximising the engagement of the user, and they use popularity metrics that are super pervasive for children,\" Bas Palomares said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She further emphasised the need to prioritise children's online safety from the beginning by embedding it into the platform's design rather than trying to fix issues after harm is done.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think the focus needs to be on changing that dynamic to ensure that while business models operate, in that meantime children's rights are preserved\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, she also acknowledged that even with these changes, issues like cyberbullying and sexual abuse will still require targeted regulations and specialised tools to effectively address them.<\/p>\n<h2>Role of government and policy-makers<\/h2><p>To address the growing concerns around children's well-being, O'Neill emphasised the need for government action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some key measures he advocates for include ensuring that young people have access to early intervention and preventative mental health support, making children's well-being a national priority, introducing a Child Poverty Act to guarantee that no family lacks basic necessities, and reforming school environments to reduce anxiety and bullying while enhancing meaningful learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Dunhill said that while there are promising initiatives from EU policymakers, such as the European Child Guarantee, which aims to combat child poverty and social exclusion, many national action plans struggle with implementation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7188332\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//09//09//europes-mental-health-crisis-in-data-which-country-uses-the-most-antidepressants/">Europe's mental health crisis: Which country uses the most antidepressants?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A major issue is that many governments fail to engage with civil society organisations or children themselves when developing these plans, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"How does the government know that they are being successful in implementing these projects to lift children out of poverty and social exclusion when they're not asking the very individuals, the very civil society organisations, who are working with those children in those areas,\" Dunhill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She added that this lack of engagement, combined with weak monitoring mechanisms, makes it difficult to evaluate whether these programs could effectively help 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Aviva buys Direct Line for \u00a33.7bn","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Aviva buys Direct Line, gaining share of the UK motor insurance market","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Aviva buys Direct Line, gaining share of the UK motor insurance market","titleListing2":"Aviva buys Direct Line, gaining share of the UK motor insurance market","leadin":"Earlier this year, Direct Line rejected two takeover bids from the Belgian insurer Ageas where the second offer valued the firm at \u00a33.2bn, which Direct Line branded as \"unattractive\" offer for shareholders.","summary":"Earlier this year, Direct Line rejected two takeover bids from the Belgian insurer Ageas where the second offer valued the firm at \u00a33.2bn, which Direct Line branded as \"unattractive\" offer for 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new reads: Here are my favourite climate-related books from 2024","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Pain, growth and hope: 5 climate books for your 2025 list","titleListing2":"New Year, new reads: Here are my favourite climate-related books from 2024","leadin":"Looking for an inspiring climate read? Here are five books I mulled over in 2024.","summary":"Looking for an inspiring climate read? Here are five books I mulled over in 2024.","keySentence":"","url":"new-year-new-reads-here-are-my-favourite-climate-related-books-from-2024","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/12\/24\/new-year-new-reads-here-are-my-favourite-climate-related-books-from-2024","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Books read, songs replayed, life moves made. The close of the year invites a stocktake, however you count it.\u00a0\n\nAs a certified bookworm, I am rarely without written company. And as an environmental journalist, I am often drawn to the \u2018nature writing\u2019 section of bookshops.\n\nBut here I recommend a small collection of books from different genres and years. All have deepened my thinking on the climate crisis in some way, and all would make great companions in 2025 if you\u2019ve not come across them yet.\n\nIn their different ways, they give hope that it\u2019s not too late to heal or grow. They delve into pain to take us somewhere better, and strengthen us for action.\u00a0\n\nWomen Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s, 1992\n\nFirst up is a book that, for me, would not be a great exaggeration to describe as life-changing. Certainly immensely revitalising. Written by US poet and psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s in 1992, it is a work profoundly concerned with the wellbeing of women.\u00a0\n\nOnce I got over my initial (British) reservations about the title, I found myself in a unique and expansive landscape. By turns snow-blasted, rivered, and fairytale-forested, it moves from old stories to psychological commentary in order to guide women back to our instinctive nature.\n\nIt\u2019s inherently ecological - fully alive to the harms done to the Earth and, by extension, ourselves. In one section, Est\u00e9s recalls with prescient horror being a child in the 1950s, \u201cin the early days of industrial disgraces against the earth,\u201d when an oil barge sank in Lake Michigan.\n\n\u201cInjury to instinct,\u201d she writes, \u201cnormalizing the abnormal, is what allowed mothers to wipe the stains of that oil spill, and later, the further sins of factories, refineries, and smelters, off their little children, their laundry, the insides of their loved ones as best they could, and while confused and worried, the women effectively cut away their rightful rage.\u201d\n\nThe cure for such silence is repairing instinct, and Women Who Run With the Wolves is the ultimate hefty handbook on how to do that by getting back in touch with our inner \u2018Wild Woman\u2019.\n\nThe recurring takeaway is that it\u2019s not too late. Whatever the internal or external damage - or\u00a0 the fargone-ness - things aren\u2019t irreversible. Est\u00e9s shows us that our ability to rally and create is limitless.\n\nNot Too Late, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, 2013\n\nThe argument that it\u2019s not too late from a climate point of view is forcefully made in this collection of essays, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.\n\nFor many in the climate movement, Solnit is the voice of pragmatic hope. Here, the floor is given to an array of changemakers, from activists and community organisers to climate scientists and academics, poets and lawyers.\u00a0\n\nIt gives courage to know that many brilliant minds are dedicated to climate action - and that there\u2019s a role for us all.\n\nIn sum, the book aims \u201cto return hope and power through both facts and perspectives.\u201d\u00a0\n\nOne section is simply entitled \u2018An Extremely Incomplete List of Climate Victories\u2019.\u00a0 It includes, among many things, cancelled pipelines and coal plants thanks to grassroots organising, rights of nature breakthroughs, and the Paris Climate Treaty.\n\nIt\u2019s Not That Radical, Mikaela Loach, 2023\n\nAnother book to lift you out of climate despair and inertia is Mikaela Loach\u2019s It\u2019s Not That Radical, also published last year.\n\n\u2018Climate books\u2019 often follow a predictable shape, with a dispiriting beginning as they set out the crisis first, before reaching an optimistic ending. Given their target audience, it can feel a bit like preaching to the choir.\u00a0\n\nBut Loach is well-tuned to new and familiar readers as she provides a clear framework for the problems and solutions, in language that is both rigorous and accessible and builds on the words of great thinkers before her.\u00a0\n\nShe shows how the climate crisis is rooted in colonialism and capitalist exploitation. \u2018Green\u2019 forms of capitalism (EVs, for example) are not the answer. Excitingly, the real solutions will improve many other aspects of life too, by getting to the roots of injustice.\u00a0\n\nAlongside this radical vision, Loach related her own journey as a prominent activist with helpful openness. You don\u2019t have to be perfect to grow and act, she tells us, and stop idolising climate activists who you think are.\u00a0\n\nPersonal growth involves discomfort - but the goal isn\u2019t to reach individual enlightenment. Above all, It\u2019s Not That Radical is a call for collective action, and it clears the path to taking part.\u00a0\n\nGod Complex, Rachael Allen, 2024\n\nThis narrative poem is a 2024 gem that brought joy, despite its bleak subject matter.\n\nThrough the lens of a failed relationship, the narrator reaches into the nooks of the UK\u2019s degraded environment, with its \u2018contaminated soil \/ eking into the bloodstream\u2019 and \u2018industrial estates ballooning from \/ motorways like bronchioles.\u2019\n\nLike Est\u00e9s description of an oily US, it blurs the boundaries of human and non-human bodies, uncovering mutual wounds.\n\nAs with all the best poetry in this vein, it re-sensitises us to reality - clearing the eyes and activating the brain. Take this description of climate abnormality:\n\n\u2018The seasons are slowing in their age. They fumble the order \/ of systems, a power-mad king past his prime.\u2019\n\nThe Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, 2024\n\nBradley\u2019s stunning debut novel has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. It deserves all the prizes in my opinion, but I\u2019d hesitate to classify it as cli-fi.\u00a0\n\nDespite casting forwards to a future in which (as one character puts it in an understated way) \u201cthe planet is not in a good way, climate-wise\u201d - and this being a major driver of the plot - it just doesn\u2019t feel where its heart lies.\n\nBut I\u2019m including it here for two reasons. Firstly, because it contains an extremely powerful formulation for change:\n\n\u201cForgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.\u201d\n\nSecondly, quite simply because it was my favourite book from 2024. It is a wholly original love story brimming with creative energy and humour.\u00a0\n\nAnd to paraphrase Loach, the things that bring us joy are also the things that galvanise us to fight for a better world. Falling in love, running around in nature and (if you\u2019re like me) curling up with a good book.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Books read, songs replayed, life moves made. The close of the year invites a stocktake, however you count it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a certified bookworm, I am rarely without written company. And as an environmental journalist, I am often drawn to the \u2018nature writing\u2019 section of bookshops.<\/p>\n<p>But here I recommend a small collection of books from different genres and years. All have deepened my thinking on the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//13//we-will-not-go-quietly-into-the-sea-hearings-for-worlds-biggest-climate-case-conclude-at-t/">climate crisis<\/strong><\/a> in some way, and all would make great companions in 2025 if you\u2019ve not come across them yet.<\/p>\n<p>In their different ways, they give hope that it\u2019s not too late to heal or grow. They delve into pain to take us somewhere better, and strengthen us for action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8921608,8916904\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//22//is-silence-golden-what-a-change-expert-says-about-family-climate-conversations-at-christma/">Is silence golden? What a change expert says about family climate conversations at Christmas time<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//18//from-destruction-to-deadly-heat-photojournalists-capture-the-reality-of-climate-change-in-/">From destruction to deadly heat, photojournalists capture the reality of climate change in 2024<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s, 1992<\/h2><p>First up is a book that, for me, would not be a great exaggeration to describe as life-changing. Certainly immensely revitalising. Written by US poet and psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s in 1992, it is a work profoundly concerned with the wellbeing of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//09//the-five-devastating-reasons-climate-change-affects-women-more-than-men/">women./u00a0/n
Once I got over my initial (British) reservations about the title, I found myself in a unique and expansive landscape. By turns snow-blasted, rivered, and fairytale-forested, it moves from old stories to psychological commentary in order to guide women back to our instinctive nature.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.253295668549906\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//90//62//808x1010_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg/" alt=\"Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissas Pinkola Est\u00e9s, who is a cantadora - a keeper of old stories in the Latina tradition. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/384x481_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/640x802_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/750x940_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/828x1038_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1080x1354_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1200x1504_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1920x2406_cmsv2_67dbf509-24b2-5298-8cfa-7bf5f6a6369c-8929062.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissas Pinkola Est\u00e9s, who is a cantadora - a keeper of old stories in the Latina tradition. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Green<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s inherently ecological - fully alive to the harms done to the Earth and, by extension, ourselves. In one section, Est\u00e9s recalls with prescient horror being a child in the 1950s, \u201cin the early days of industrial disgraces against the earth,\u201d when an oil barge sank in Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjury to instinct,\u201d she writes, \u201cnormalizing the abnormal, is what allowed mothers to wipe the stains of that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//05//ecological-disaster-spanish-energy-giant-repsol-hit-with-further-55m-fine-for-oil-spill-in/">oil spill<\/strong><\/a>, and later, the further sins of factories, refineries, and smelters, off their little children, their laundry, the insides of their loved ones as best they could, and while confused and worried, the women effectively cut away their rightful rage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cure for such silence is repairing instinct, and Women Who Run With the Wolves is the ultimate hefty handbook on how to do that by getting back in touch with our inner \u2018Wild Woman\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The recurring takeaway is that it\u2019s not too late. Whatever the internal or external damage - or\u00a0 the fargone-ness - things aren\u2019t irreversible. Est\u00e9s shows us that our ability to rally and create is limitless.<\/p>\n<h2>Not Too Late, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, 2013<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//90//62//808x454_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg/" alt=\"Two books that help pave the way for climate action.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/384x216_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/640x360_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/750x422_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/828x466_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1080x608_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1200x675_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1920x1080_cmsv2_4c09fd83-8e64-5a74-8ef1-f329c86a7128-8929062.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Two books that help pave the way for climate action.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Green<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The argument that it\u2019s not too late from a climate point of view is forcefully made in this collection of essays, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.<\/p>\n<p>For many in the climate movement, Solnit is the voice of pragmatic hope. Here, the floor is given to an array of changemakers, from activists and community organisers to climate scientists and academics, poets and lawyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It gives courage to know that many brilliant minds are dedicated to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//28//harness-the-power-of-nightmares-how-facing-up-to-the-climate-reality-could-help-us-fight-i/">climate action<\/strong><\/a> - and that there\u2019s a role for us all.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, the book aims \u201cto return hope and power through both facts and perspectives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One section is simply entitled \u2018An Extremely Incomplete List of Climate Victories\u2019.\u00a0 It includes, among many things, cancelled pipelines and coal plants thanks to grassroots organising, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//04//01//wild-animals-in-ecuador-now-have-legal-rights-thanks-to-a-monkey-named-estrellita/">rights of nature<\/strong><\/a> breakthroughs, and the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//04//cop29-what-is-the-paris-agreement-and-how-will-countries-be-held-to-account-in-baku#:~:text=The%20Paris%20Agreement%20is%20a,force%20on%204%20November%202016.\"><strong>Paris Climate Treaty<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8171602\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//31//positive-environmental-stories-from-2024/">Electric wallpaper and carbon-sequestering cows: Positive environmental stories from 2024<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>It\u2019s Not That Radical, Mikaela Loach, 2023<\/h2><p>Another book to lift you out of climate despair and inertia is Mikaela Loach\u2019s It\u2019s Not That Radical, also published last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Climate books\u2019 often follow a predictable shape, with a dispiriting beginning as they set out the crisis first, before reaching an optimistic ending. Given their target audience, it can feel a bit like preaching to the choir.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Loach is well-tuned to new and familiar readers as she provides a clear framework for the problems and solutions, in language that is both rigorous and accessible and builds on the words of great thinkers before her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She shows how the climate crisis is rooted in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//09//29//views-from-the-global-south-how-to-decolonise-the-climate-crisis/">colonialism and capitalist exploitation. \u2018Green\u2019 forms of capitalism (EVs, for example) are not the answer. Excitingly, the real solutions will improve many other aspects of life too, by getting to the roots of injustice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alongside this radical vision, Loach related her own journey as a prominent activist with helpful openness. You don\u2019t have to be perfect to grow and act, she tells us, and stop idolising <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//14//climate-activists-reflect-on-eu-climate-action-amid-green-backlash/">climate activists<\/strong><\/a> who you think are.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Personal growth involves discomfort - but the goal isn\u2019t to reach individual enlightenment. Above all, It\u2019s Not That Radical is a call for collective action, and it clears the path to taking part.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7932856\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//01//dont-look-away-this-book-is-a-wake-up-call-to-our-monstrous-waste-crisis-and-how-to-solve-/">Don/u2019t look away: This book is a wake-up call to our \u2018monstrous\u2019 waste crisis and how to solve it<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>God Complex, Rachael Allen, 2024<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//90//62//808x454_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg/" alt=\"My favourite novel and poetry collection from 2024; two books that address the climate crisis in unique ways.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/384x216_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/640x360_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/750x422_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/828x466_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1080x608_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1200x675_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/1920x1080_cmsv2_2427b40b-11e1-5d00-aa27-a3cb9b8a536d-8929062.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">My favourite novel and poetry collection from 2024; two books that address the climate crisis in unique ways.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Green<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This narrative poem is a 2024 gem that brought joy, despite its bleak subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>Through the lens of a failed relationship, the narrator reaches into the nooks of the UK\u2019s degraded <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//10//new-eu-air-quality-rules-air-pollution-still-the-top-environmental-health-risk-to-european/">environment, with its \u2018contaminated soil \/ eking into the bloodstream\u2019 and \u2018industrial estates ballooning from \/ motorways like bronchioles.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Like Est\u00e9s description of an oily US, it blurs the boundaries of human and non-human bodies, uncovering mutual wounds.<\/p>\n<p>As with all the best poetry in this vein, it re-sensitises us to reality - clearing the eyes and activating the brain. Take this description of climate abnormality:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The seasons are slowing in their age. They fumble the order \/ of systems, a power-mad king past his prime.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"6133226,8205972\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//10//07//how-can-poetry-help-us-wake-up-to-the-climate-crisis/">/u2018An eye between nature and itself\u2019: These are the best Irish ecopoets\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//01//30//hms-erebus-can-archaeologists-solve-this-mysterious-puzzle-before-climate-change-stops-the/">HMS Erebus: Can archaeologists solve this \u2018mysterious puzzle\u2019 before climate change stops them?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, 2024<\/h2><p>Bradley\u2019s stunning debut novel has been longlisted for the inaugural <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//16//want-to-try-out-climate-fiction-take-your-pick-from-the-finalists-of-the-first-ever-fictio/">Climate Fiction Prize<\/strong><\/a>. It deserves all the prizes in my opinion, but I\u2019d hesitate to classify it as cli-fi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite casting forwards to a future in which (as one character puts it in an understated way) \u201cthe planet is not in a good way, climate-wise\u201d - and this being a major driver of the plot - it just doesn\u2019t feel where its heart lies.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m including it here for two reasons. Firstly, because it contains an extremely powerful formulation for change:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, quite simply because it was my favourite <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//06//02//why-we-need-to-talk-about-farming-monbiot-s-new-book-is-fiercely-important/">book from 2024. It is a wholly original love story brimming with creative energy and humour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And to paraphrase Loach, the things that bring us joy are also the things that galvanise us to fight for a better world. Falling in love, running around in nature and (if you\u2019re like me) curling up with a good book.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734966630,"updatedAt":1735026790,"publishedAt":1735020194,"firstPublishedAt":1735020194,"lastPublishedAt":1735020208,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/90\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7f5d21bb-2ebc-53cf-aa5d-799eace39fc2-8929062.jpg","altText":"Well-loved copies of five incredible 'climate books'. ","caption":"Well-loved copies of five incredible 'climate books'. 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\u2013 Hanukkah Christmas day","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Hanukkah begins on Christmas Day in rare calendar convergence","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Hanukkah begins on Christmas Day in rare calendar convergence","titleListing2":"Hanukkah begins on Christmas Day in rare calendar convergence","leadin":"This year, Hanukkah and Christmas will share a special connection as the Jewish Festival of Lights begins on 25 December, marking only the fifth time since 1900 that the two holidays have overlapped.","summary":"This year, Hanukkah and Christmas will share a special connection as the Jewish Festival of Lights begins on 25 December, marking only the fifth time since 1900 that the two holidays have overlapped.","keySentence":"","url":"hanukkah-begins-on-christmas-day-in-rare-calendar-convergence","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/23\/hanukkah-begins-on-christmas-day-in-rare-calendar-convergence","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah) is celebrated annually by Jews around the world, but this year\u2019s start date is a rare one: 25 December 2024, aligns with Christmas Day. \n\nThe holiday will run from 25 December to 2 January 2025. While Hanukkah's dates fluctuate every year because it follows the lunar Jewish calendar, this particular timing is unusual, as it\u2019s only the fifth time since 1900 that Hanukkah has begun on Christmas Day.\n\nThe holiday celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC. After Jewish fighters successfully reclaimed the Temple from foreign occupiers, they found a small amount of pure oil, enough to light the Temple\u2019s menorah for one day. Miraculously, the oil lasted for eight days, giving rise to Hanukkah\u2019s central theme: bringing light into darkness, both literally and metaphorically.\n\nThe miracle of light and the ritual of the menorah\n\nHanukkah\u2019s central observance involves the lighting of the menorah, a candelabra with eight branches, each representing one night of the festival, plus a ninth holder for the shamash (the \"helper\" candle used to light the others). Families across the globe gather each night to light an additional candle, recite blessings, and often sing special songs. The lighting begins with one candle on the first night and increases by one each subsequent night.\n\nWhile the ritual varies in some ways depending on religious observance \u2013 whether Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox \u2013 the central message is universal: even a small act of faith or courage can create profound, transformative change.\n\nA time of family, food, and reflection\n\nHanukkah traditions also include the eating of oil-based foods, most famously potato pancakes (latkes) and jelly donuts (sufganiyot), as well as playing the traditional game of dreidel. As Jewish communities across the world celebrate, the themes of resilience, dedication, and community are emphasised. Despite the festive atmosphere, this year's Hanukkah comes at a time of increased concern over global conflicts and a rise in antisemitism, prompting some to reflect more deeply on the significance of light in times of darkness.\n\nAcross the world, menorahs are displayed in windows, on city streets, and at public landmarks as a symbol of hope and unity. The lighting of menorahs in public spaces has become a visible tradition, including across Europe with large-scale displays on London\u2019s Trafalgar Square, the Place de la R\u00e9publique in Paris, and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.\n\nChrismukkah, anyone?\n\nWith Hanukkah beginning on Christmas, the fusion of the two holidays has led to the creation of the term \"Chrismukkah\" \u2013 a blend of Christmas and Hanukkah traditions. Popularised in the early 2000s, particularly by the character Seth Cohen in the TV show The O.C., Chrismukkah has come to represent the blending of cultures in interfaith households.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah) is celebrated annually by Jews around the world, but this year\u2019s start date is a rare one: 25 December 2024, aligns with Christmas Day. <\/p>\n<p>The holiday will run from 25 December to 2 January 2025. While Hanukkah's dates fluctuate every year because it follows the lunar Jewish calendar, this particular timing is unusual, as it\u2019s only the fifth time since 1900 that Hanukkah has begun on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//20//holiday-tunes-the-best-christmas-albums-to-combat-the-tired-radio-classics-this-festive-se/">Christmas Day<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC. After <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//06//23//germany-opens-biggest-jewish-centre-since-holocaust/">Jewish fighters successfully reclaimed the Temple from foreign occupiers, they found a small amount of pure oil, enough to light the Temple\u2019s menorah for one day. Miraculously, the oil lasted for eight days, giving rise to Hanukkah\u2019s central theme: bringing light into darkness, both literally and metaphorically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//86//38//808x539_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg/" alt=\"Dreidels are traditionally played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/384x256_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/640x427_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/750x500_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/828x552_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1080x720_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1200x800_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3be84ce8-b540-575f-8ddd-a29bb358f0cd-8928638.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Dreidels are traditionally played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Adiel lo \/ CC licence<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>The miracle of light and the ritual of the menorah<\/h2><p>Hanukkah\u2019s central observance involves the lighting of the menorah, a candelabra with eight branches, each representing one night of the festival, plus a ninth holder for the shamash (the \"helper\" candle used to light the others). Families across the globe gather each night to light an additional candle, recite blessings, and often sing special songs. The lighting begins with one candle on the first night and increases by one each subsequent night.<\/p>\n<p>While the ritual varies in some ways depending on religious observance \u2013 whether Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox \u2013 the central message is universal: even a small act of faith or courage can create profound, transformative change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666829506595017\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//86//38//808x539_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg/" alt=\"Sufganiyot \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/384x256_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/640x427_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/750x500_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/828x552_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1080x720_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1200x800_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1920x1280_cmsv2_195259c1-a1d8-5b6f-8607-28cf241c5b69-8928638.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sufganiyot <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">DYKT Mohigan \/ CC licence<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>A time of family, food, and reflection<\/h2><p>Hanukkah traditions also include the eating of oil-based foods, most famously potato pancakes (latkes) and jelly donuts (sufganiyot), as well as playing the traditional game of dreidel. As Jewish communities across the world celebrate, the themes of resilience, dedication, and community are emphasised. Despite the festive atmosphere, this year's Hanukkah comes at a time of increased concern over global conflicts and a rise in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//08//16//american-comedian-reginald-d-hunter-embroiled-in-antisemitism-incident-at-fringe-festival/">antisemitism, prompting some to reflect more deeply on the significance of light in times of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Across the world, menorahs are displayed in windows, on city streets, and at public landmarks as a symbol of hope and unity. The lighting of menorahs in public spaces has become a visible tradition, including across Europe with large-scale displays on London\u2019s Trafalgar Square, the Place de la R\u00e9publique in Paris, and at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2021//11//29//giant-jewish-menorah-lights-up-the-start-of-hanukkah-in-berlin/">Berlin's Brandenburg Gate<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.667\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//86//38//808x539_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg/" alt=\"Menorah by the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 2021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/384x256_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/640x427_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/750x500_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/828x552_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1080x720_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1200x800_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/86\/38\/1920x1281_cmsv2_a9729b69-ea72-5e5e-8340-8f4389de1ade-8928638.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Menorah by the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 2021<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Chabad.org \/ CC licence<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Chrismukkah, anyone?<\/h2><p>With Hanukkah beginning on Christmas, the fusion of the two holidays has led to the creation of the term \"Chrismukkah\" \u2013 a blend of Christmas and Hanukkah traditions. 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SELF-DIAGNOSE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Nearly half of people in the UK use online health information to self-diagnose, survey finds","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Survey finds half of people in the UK self-diagnose conditions online","titleListing2":"Minor ailments and mental health conditions were among the most diagnosed, according to the survey. \n","leadin":"Minor ailments and mental health conditions were among the most diagnosed, according to the survey.","summary":"Minor ailments and mental health conditions were among the most diagnosed, according to the survey.","keySentence":"","url":"nearly-half-of-people-in-the-uk-use-online-health-information-to-self-diagnose-survey-find","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/12\/20\/nearly-half-of-people-in-the-uk-use-online-health-information-to-self-diagnose-survey-find","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Nearly half of people in the UK have used online health information to self-diagnose, according to a new survey from the multinational insurance company AXA which called for stronger regulation of online health content and more health education.\n\nSurprisingly, people aged between 35 and 44 were the most likely to self-diagnose a condition rather than people aged between 16 and 24 (Generation Z).\u00a0\n\nAmong the 4,000 survey respondents in the UK, 36 per cent said they used digital tools to diagnose themselves because they were unable to get an appointment through the UK\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) in a timely manner.\n\nMinor conditions such as \u201chay fever, sunburn and common colds\u201d are among the most self-diagnosed, the survey found.\n\nThat\u2019s followed by mental health conditions, which nearly a third of respondents said they \u201cself-diagnosed\u201d.\u00a0\n\nHowever, this proportion increased to nearly one person out of two for those aged between 16 and 24.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThis finding 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alarming 15% fall ","titleListing2":"UK's culture sector declined by 15% since July","leadin":"Shocking figures reveal the state of freefall for the culture and entertainment sector in terms of the UK's GDP.","summary":"Shocking figures reveal the state of freefall for the culture and entertainment sector in terms of the UK's GDP.","keySentence":"","url":"new-uk-report-shows-dramatic-drop-for-arts-and-culture-investment","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/19\/new-uk-report-shows-dramatic-drop-for-arts-and-culture-investment","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The UK\u2019s creative arts and entertainment sector shrunk by 15% in the last half of 2024, new data reveals. Analysis of figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) by performers union Equity has pointed to a concerning decline in the arts. \n\nSince July \u2013 when the centre-left Labour Party came into government after 14 years of the right-wing Conservative Party \u2013 Equity has noted a 15% cumulative decline in the UK\u2019s GDP from the entertainment sector.\n\nThat makes for an average monthly reduction of 3.7% across the sector, with the peak of decline coming in October at 4.6%. In the same period the overall GDP of the UK has contracted by 0.1%, showing the arts and entertainment sector is on a far more dramatic trajectory. \n\n\u201cThe rapid and significant shrinking of the arts and entertainment industries since Labour took office is alarming,\u201d said Paul W. Fleming, Equity general secretary. \u201cGovernment must take urgent action to understand and address this fall happening on their watch, set out a roadmap to reach the European average of investing 0.5% of GDP in the arts.\u201d\n\n\u201cInvestment in arts jobs and infrastructure, which focuses on the significant economic benefits that UK film, TV, live performance and productions bring to the whole country, will pay dividends,\u201d Fleming said. \n\nFleming noted that there have been mixed responses across the UK\u2019s four nations as to the approaches to arts and culture funding. He said that Holyrood, the Scottish government, has made \u201ca welcome Budget investment\u201d but that Wales has done little to redress funding cuts of 40% over the past decade. Northern Ireland\u2019s government is expected to present its budget in February 2025. \n\nEquity emphasises the economic value of arts investment. \u201cThe arts perform a multiplier effect on the economy, with research by Arts Council England showing that for every \u00a31 of turnover directly generated by the arts and culture industry, an additional \u00a31.23 worth of turnover is supported in the wider economy,\u201d it writes, quoting a 2020 Arts Council England report. \n\nExamples of the UK\u2019s wide-scale entertainment sector bringing in a huge amount of economic value are also given, including the UK leg of Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras Tour which brought in roughly \u00a31 billion (\u20ac1.2 billion), alongside the long-running ABBA Voyage virtual show which has generated \u00a31.4 billion (\u20ac1.7 billion) in turnover since opening in May 2022 with an estimated \u00a3775 million (\u20ac940 million) in gross value added to the UK economy. \n\nLike for like\n\nDirect comparison with the EU is not easy to make as data is analysed and released differently. Eurostat releases annual reports on culture statistics across the European bloc, but there is no specific figure for contribution to GDP as with the ONS. \n\nEurostat figures on 2023 do show that across the EU, cultural employment \u2013 a significant figure in economic productivity \u2013 increased 0.4% compared to 2022 and accounted for 3.8% of total employment in the region.\n\nOf the countries measured, Iceland had the highest proportion of people employed in the culture sector at 6.1% with the Netherlands the most of the EU member states with 5.3%. In gross figures, Germany had the most individuals employed in the sector with 1.7 million, followed by France with 1.2 million. \n\nIn terms of value generation, the most recent Eurostat figures come from 2021, where cultural enterprises generated \u20ac183 billion to the EU. This is a net figure as it\u2019s in terms of actual value added and contributed to 1.9% of the non-financial business economy of the EU. \n\nIn the past few months, member state budgets have shown a concerning trend for culture. In November, it was revealed that over \u20ac130 million will be slashed from Berlin's culture budget as the annual allowance is cut by nearly 13%.\n\nFrance's former economy minister Bruno Le Maire announced in April that the country's culture sector will have its annual budget slashed by \u20ac204 million\n\nThe Netherlands has also been slowly dropping its culture budget. As expenditure has been slashed from \u20ac1.456 billion to \u20ac1.232 billion between 2020 and 2024, funding alongside has also dropped \u2013 although less significantly \u2013 from \u20ac1.187 billion to \u20ac1.049 billion.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UK\u2019s creative arts and entertainment sector shrunk by 15% in the last half of 2024, new data reveals. Analysis of figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//06//08//how-the-uks-performers-union-is-protecting-actors-against-ai/">performers union Equity<\/strong><\/a> has pointed to a concerning decline in the arts. <\/p>\n<p>Since July \u2013 when the centre-left Labour Party came into government after 14 years of the right-wing Conservative Party \u2013 Equity has noted a 15% cumulative decline in the UK\u2019s GDP from the entertainment sector.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8877000\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//27//berlin-announces-huge-130-million-cuts-to-culture-budget/">Berlin announces huge \u20ac130 million cuts to culture budget<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>That makes for an average monthly reduction of 3.7% across the sector, with the peak of decline coming in October at 4.6%. In the same period the overall GDP of the UK has contracted by 0.1%, showing the arts and entertainment sector is on a far more dramatic trajectory. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rapid and significant shrinking of the arts and entertainment industries since Labour took office is alarming,\u201d said Paul W. Fleming, Equity general secretary. \u201cGovernment must take urgent action to understand and address this fall happening on their watch, set out a roadmap to reach the European average of investing 0.5% of GDP in the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestment in arts jobs and infrastructure, which focuses on the significant economic benefits that UK film, TV, live performance and productions bring to the whole country, will pay dividends,\u201d Fleming said. <\/p>\n<p>Fleming noted that there have been mixed responses across the UK\u2019s four nations as to the approaches to arts and culture funding. He said that Holyrood, the Scottish government, has made \u201ca welcome Budget investment\u201d but that Wales has done little to redress funding cuts of 40% over the past decade. Northern Ireland\u2019s government is expected to present its budget in February 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Equity emphasises the economic value of arts investment. \u201cThe arts perform a multiplier effect on the economy, with research by Arts Council England showing that for every \u00a31 of turnover directly generated by the arts and culture industry, an additional \u00a31.23 worth of turnover is supported in the wider economy,\u201d it writes, quoting a 2020 Arts Council England report. <\/p>\n<p>Examples of the UK\u2019s wide-scale entertainment sector bringing in a huge amount of economic value are also given, including the UK leg of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//10//data-shows-taylor-swifts-eras-tour-ends-by-shattering-own-record/">Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras Tour<\/strong><\/a> which brought in roughly \u00a31 billion (\u20ac1.2 billion), alongside the long-running <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//10//abba-voyage-gives-uk-economy-huge-boost-contributing-14-billion/">ABBA Voyage<\/strong><\/a> virtual show which has generated \u00a31.4 billion (\u20ac1.7 billion) in turnover since opening in May 2022 with an estimated \u00a3775 million (\u20ac940 million) in gross value added to the UK economy. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6342042755344418\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//11//26//808x511_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg/" alt=\"Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson arrive for the ABBA Voyage concert at the ABBA Arena in London, Thursday May 26, 2022. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/384x244_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/640x406_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/750x476_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/828x525_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/1080x685_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/1200x761_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/11\/26\/1920x1218_cmsv2_76e6bb11-6a3c-5926-ab0f-64ca431ef99f-8921126.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson arrive for the ABBA Voyage concert at the ABBA Arena in London, Thursday May 26, 2022. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Like for like<\/strong><\/h2><p>Direct comparison with the EU is not easy to make as data is analysed and released differently. Eurostat releases annual reports on culture statistics across the European bloc, but there is no specific figure for contribution to GDP as with the ONS. <\/p>\n<p>Eurostat figures on 2023 do show that across the EU, cultural employment \u2013 a significant figure in economic productivity \u2013 increased 0.4% compared to 2022 and accounted for 3.8% of total employment in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Of the countries measured, Iceland had the highest proportion of people employed in the culture sector at 6.1% with the Netherlands the most of the EU member states with 5.3%. In gross figures, Germany had the most individuals employed in the sector with 1.7 million, followed by France with 1.2 million. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of value generation, the most recent Eurostat figures come from 2021, where cultural enterprises generated \u20ac183 billion to the EU. This is a net figure as it\u2019s in terms of actual value added and contributed to 1.9% of the non-financial business economy of the EU. <\/p>\n<p>In the past few months, member state budgets have shown a concerning trend for culture. In November, it <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//27//berlin-announces-huge-130-million-cuts-to-culture-budget/">was revealed<\/strong><\/a> that over \u20ac130 million will be slashed from Berlin's culture budget as the annual allowance is cut by nearly 13%.<\/p>\n<p>France's former economy minister <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//18//as-france-slashes-its-culture-budget-how-do-other-european-countries-compare/">Bruno Le Maire<\/strong><\/a> announced in April that the country's culture sector will have its annual budget slashed by \u20ac204 million<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands has also been slowly dropping its culture budget. 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Inflation rose to 2.6% in November, but growth is now forecast at 0% for the fourth quarter. Markets interpreted the decision as dovish.","summary":"The Bank of England maintained its key interest rate at 4.75% in a 6\u20133 split vote, as inflation pressures persist and growth falters. Inflation rose to 2.6% in November, but growth is now forecast at 0% for the fourth quarter. Markets interpreted the decision as dovish.","keySentence":"","url":"bank-of-england-takes-final-interest-rate-decision-of-2024","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/19\/bank-of-england-takes-final-interest-rate-decision-of-2024","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Bank of England (BoE) opted to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 4.75% on Thursday, as widely predicted by market participants.\u00a0\n\nThe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 6\u20133 in favour of holding rates, with three members dissenting and advocating for a 25-basis-point cut to 4.5%, indicating growing dovish sentiment within the committee amid mounting economic concerns.\n\nInflation risks resume, BoE on a wait-and-see approach\n\nSince the BoE's last meeting, inflationary pressures have intensified. Consumer price inflation (CPI) rose to 2.6% year-over-year in November, up from 1.7% in September, driven by surging core goods and food prices, as well as persistently high services inflation.\u00a0\n\nHowever, economic momentum has faltered, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the fourth quarter now forecast at 0%, a sharp downgrade from the 0.3% growth previously expected.\n\n\"Keeping rates unchanged feels like a wait-and-see decision\", said Nick Saunders, chief executive officer of stock trading platform Webull UK. \"At the moment, it's unlikely we'll see a succession of rate cuts in 2025 unless inflation is firmly under control despite weak GDP.\"\n\nAccompanying the decision, the MPC reiterated its commitment to a \"gradual\" and \"data-dependent\" policy approach.\u00a0\n\nThe committee maintained that rates must remain \"restrictive for sufficiently long\" to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched, particularly as services inflation persists.\n\nDiverging opinions within the MPC\n\nThe vote split revealed rising tensions within the committee. External member Swati Dhingra, a consistent advocate for rate cuts, was joined by Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden and external member Alan Taylor in calling for a 25-basis-point reduction.\u00a0\n\nMichael Brown, senior research strategist at Pepperstone, noted: \"Dhingra's dissent was no surprise, but the addition of Ramsden and Taylor underscores growing concerns about the UK's weak economic trajectory.\"\n\nThe MPC also highlighted external risks, including uncertainty over geopolitical tensions and potential trade disruptions tied to tariff increases proposed by the incoming US administration.\u00a0\n\nBrown noted that the MPC is unlikely to shift away from its current 'slow and steady' approach in the near term, especially as the UK's economic landscape grows increasingly stagflationary, reinforcing the rationale for pursuing 'gradual' rate cuts for now.\n\nMarket reactions: Pound weakens, FTSE 100 surges\n\nTraders interpreted the BoE's decision as a dovish hold, prompting a shift in money markets.\u00a0\n\nThe GBP Overnight Index Swap (OIS) curve \u2013 which reflects market-based expectations over the Bank Rate in the future \u2013 now suggests a 72% likelihood of a rate cut at the February meeting, up from 55% before the decision. Markets are pricing in 22 basis points of easing by the end of first quarter 2025, with expectations of two 25-basis-point cuts over the course of next year.\n\nAccording to Brown, risks \"are tilted towards a more dovish outcome, amid increasing signs of overall economic momentum stalling, and with risks to the labour market tilted to the downside, amid the upcoming changes to National Insurance\".\n\nYields on rate-sensitive 2-year gilts fell by 4 basis points, reflecting increased expectations for imminent rate cuts. Meanwhile, the 10-year gilt yield slipped below 4.6%.\n\nThe British pound weakened slightly, sliding from $1.2650 to $1.2600 after the announcement, trimming earlier daily gains from 0.7% to 0.2%.\n\nIn equities, the FTSE 100 rebounded by 0.4%, benefitting from expectations of looser monetary policy.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Bank of England (BoE) opted to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 4.75% on Thursday, as widely predicted by market participants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 6\u20133 in favour of holding rates, with three members dissenting and advocating for a 25-basis-point cut to 4.5%, indicating growing dovish sentiment within the committee amid mounting economic concerns.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Inflation risks resume, BoE on a wait-and-see approach<\/strong><\/h2><p>Since the BoE's last meeting, inflationary pressures have intensified. Consumer price inflation (CPI) rose to 2.6% year-over-year in November, up from 1.7% in September, driven by surging core goods and food prices, as well as persistently high services inflation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, economic momentum has faltered, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the fourth quarter now forecast at 0%, a sharp downgrade from the 0.3% growth previously expected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8918190,8916978\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//18//what-is-the-uks-project-pisces-new-private-stock-market-explained/">What is the UK\u2019s project Pisces? New private stock market explained <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//18//uk-inflation-rises-further-above-bank-of-englands-target-in-november/">UK inflation rises further above Bank of England's target in November<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Keeping rates unchanged feels like a wait-and-see decision\", said Nick Saunders, chief executive officer of stock trading platform Webull UK. \"At the moment, it's unlikely we'll see a succession of rate cuts in 2025 unless inflation is firmly under control despite weak GDP.\"<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the decision, the MPC reiterated its commitment to a \"gradual\" and \"data-dependent\" policy approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The committee maintained that rates must remain \"restrictive for sufficiently long\" to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched, particularly as services inflation persists.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Diverging opinions within the MPC<\/strong><\/h2><p>The vote split revealed rising tensions within the committee. External member Swati Dhingra, a consistent advocate for rate cuts, was joined by Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden and external member Alan Taylor in calling for a 25-basis-point reduction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brown, senior research strategist at Pepperstone, noted: \"Dhingra's dissent was no surprise, but the addition of Ramsden and Taylor underscores growing concerns about the UK's weak economic trajectory.\"<\/p>\n<p>The MPC also highlighted external risks, including uncertainty over geopolitical tensions and potential trade disruptions tied to tariff increases proposed by the incoming US administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown noted that the MPC is unlikely to shift away from its current 'slow and steady' approach in the near term, especially as the UK's economic landscape grows increasingly stagflationary, reinforcing the rationale for pursuing 'gradual' rate cuts for now.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Market reactions: Pound weakens, FTSE 100 surges<\/strong><\/h2><p>Traders interpreted the BoE's decision as a dovish hold, prompting a shift in money markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The GBP Overnight Index Swap (OIS) curve \u2013 which reflects market-based expectations over the Bank Rate in the future \u2013 now suggests a 72% likelihood of a rate cut at the February meeting, up from 55% before the decision. Markets are pricing in 22 basis points of easing by the end of first quarter 2025, with expectations of two 25-basis-point cuts over the course of next year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brown, risks \"are tilted towards a more dovish outcome, amid increasing signs of overall economic momentum stalling, and with risks to the labour market tilted to the downside, amid the upcoming changes to National Insurance\".<\/p>\n<p>Yields on rate-sensitive 2-year gilts fell by 4 basis points, reflecting increased expectations for imminent rate cuts. Meanwhile, the 10-year gilt yield slipped below 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The British pound weakened slightly, sliding from $1.2650 to $1.2600 after the announcement, trimming earlier daily gains from 0.7% to 0.2%.<\/p>\n<p>In equities, the FTSE 100 rebounded by 0.4%, benefitting from expectations of looser monetary policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734609340,"updatedAt":1734613017,"publishedAt":1734609974,"firstPublishedAt":1734609974,"lastPublishedAt":1734613017,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Alberto Pezzali\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved","altText":"Bank of England takes final interest rate decision for 2024","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"Bank of England takes final interest rate decision for 2024","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/12\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4adee430-b1b6-5cf4-94e9-75db83955e73-8921242.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1280}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"bank-of-england","titleRaw":"Bank of England","id":20,"title":"Bank of England","slug":"bank-of-england"},{"urlSafeValue":"pound-sterling","titleRaw":"Pound sterling","id":5165,"title":"Pound sterling","slug":"pound-sterling"},{"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","titleRaw":"United Kingdom","id":7800,"title":"United Kingdom","slug":"united-kingdom"},{"urlSafeValue":"currency","titleRaw":"Currency","id":64,"title":"Currency","slug":"currency"}],"widgets":[{"count":1,"slug":"related"}],"related":[{"id":2706810},{"id":2706758}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Piero Cingari","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"economy","urlSafeValue":"economy","title":"Economy","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/economy\/economy"},"vertical":"business","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"business","id":11,"title":"Business","slug":"business"},{"urlSafeValue":"my-europe","id":2,"title":"Europe","slug":"my-europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":11,"slug":"business","urlSafeValue":"business","title":"Business"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"economy","id":"economy","title":"Economy","url":"\/business\/economy"},{"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","id":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":72,"urlSafeValue":"economy","title":"Economy"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":291,"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","url":"\/news\/europe\/united-kingdom"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/business\/2024\/12\/19\/bank-of-england-takes-final-interest-rate-decision-of-2024","lastModified":1734613017},{"id":2706360,"cid":8919542,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241218_DNSU_57309788","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Culture - Euronews' 5 favourite newly listed historic places in England","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Five favourite newly listed historic places in England","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Five favourite newly listed historic places in England","titleListing2":"Five favourite newly listed historic places in England","leadin":"As Historic England releases its annual list of protected buildings, we look at some of the highlights.","summary":"As Historic England releases its annual list of protected buildings, we look at some of the highlights.","keySentence":"","url":"five-favourite-newly-listed-historic-places-in-england","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/19\/five-favourite-newly-listed-historic-places-in-england","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Every year, Historic England announces the new buildings and places they add to their protection. As always, the list includes some insights into the fascinating history of the country. \n\nThe National Heritage List for England (NHLE) has added a total of 211 new listings, 34 new scheduled monuments and 11 parks and gardens. \n\nAlongside the new additions to the NHLE, Historic England have also highlighted 17 sites of note. These sites range from a brutalist church on top of a shopping centre to tombs dating back to the early 17th century. \n\n\u201cHistoric England's annual listing roundup is a celebration of 12 months of hard work to protect and preserve some truly unique buildings and places that have helped shape our cultural history,\u201d says Sir Chris Bryant MP and Heritage Minister. \n\nHere\u2019s a rundown of some of our favourite new additions to the NHLE list:\n\nBroadmead Baptist Church, Bristol\n\nBefore we delve into the old stuff, why not take a gander at this brutalist classic ahead of next year\u2019s highly anticipated film The Brutalist. Built between 1967 and 1969 from architect Ronald H Sims, the Broadmead Baptist Church is unique in providing an income and football for the religious building through using the ground floor as retail. \n\nThe white V-shaped beams of the roof are symbolic of doves in flight and the journey through the building brings increasing light as you ascend through the floors. Conceived as a \u201cBaptist cathedral of the West\u201d, it remains a quiet space for shoppers today. \n\nToddington Fingerpost, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire\n\n\u201cBefore the advent of sat-nav in Britain, drivers relied on signposts or fingerposts, especially at crossroads to help them find their way,\u201d the NHLE writes. \n\nThis quirky signpost predates requirements to display road classification numbers and standardised design. Built at some point between 1902 and 1921, the fingerpost harks back to a time of artisanal folk artists building the signs of the area. \n\nBrowndown First World War Practice Trenches, Gosport, Hampshire\n\nThanks to aerial photos taken in 2011, a training site for World War One troops to practice trench warfare was rediscovered. These practice trenches have been surveyed and mapped by Historic England investigators. \n\n\u201cMimicking sections of the Western Front, they provided 'textbook' training environments with at least 2 phases of trench digging with opposing frontlines and support trenches separated by a 'no-man's-land'. The Royal Marines Light Infantry and probably the Hampshire Regiment trained there before leaving for the Front via Southampton.\u201d \n\nThree tombs in Church of St Clements, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex\n\nIn this Essex churchyard there are three intriguing tombs, all with unusual stories behind them. The first is a 1609 tomb that commemorates a woman called Mary Ellis who is believed to live to 119 years old. If so, that would put her birth at latest to be the year 1490. Supposedly she died a virgin having never married. \n\nThe second tomb belongs to William Goodlad, a nationally famous whaler who charted many important British maritime routes, including a whaling trip to Norway. He has an elaborate tomb that dates back to 1639. \n\nFinally, there\u2019s the tomb of Mary Anna Haddock, whose elaborate 1688 tomb beside her father\u2019s is notable as a rare example of a sole tomb dedicated to a woman in a time of gender inequality. \n\n16 Warley Way, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex\n\nOur fifth and final highlight comes back to the 20th century with an example of modernist domestic architecture. This open plan house was designed in 1934 by Oliver Hill and built the following year. Featuring curved lines and a focus on space and light, it presages many of the design trends of the past century.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Every year, Historic England announces the new buildings and places they add to their protection. As always, the list includes some insights into the fascinating history of the country. <\/p>\n<p>The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) has added a total of 211 new listings, 34 new scheduled monuments and 11 parks and gardens. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8910406,8907322\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//12//saudi-arabia-to-contribute-50m-to-pompidou-renovations-in-paris/">Saudi Arabia to contribute \u20ac50m to Pompidou renovations in Paris<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//13//marge-simpson-painting-discovered-on-ancient-egyptian-tomb-goes-viral/">'Marge Simpson' painting discovered on ancient Egyptian tomb goes viral<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alongside the new additions to the NHLE, Historic England have also highlighted 17 sites of note. These sites range from a brutalist church on top of a shopping centre to tombs dating back to the early 17th century. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistoric England's annual listing roundup is a celebration of 12 months of hard work to protect and preserve some truly unique buildings and places that have helped shape our cultural history,\u201d says Sir Chris Bryant MP and Heritage Minister. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a rundown of some of our favourite new additions to the NHLE list:<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//95//42//808x454_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg/" alt=\"Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/384x216_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/640x360_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/750x422_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/828x466_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1080x608_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1200x675_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1920x1080_cmsv2_dc38db35-d2d3-5c98-92e6-7d8e5e0fca35-8919542.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Historic England Archive<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol<\/h2><p>Before we delve into the old stuff, why not take a gander at this brutalist classic ahead of next year\u2019s highly anticipated film The Brutalist. Built between 1967 and 1969 from architect Ronald H Sims, the Broadmead Baptist Church is unique in providing an income and football for the religious building through using the ground floor as retail. <\/p>\n<p>The white V-shaped beams of the roof are symbolic of doves in flight and the journey through the building brings increasing light as you ascend through the floors. Conceived as a \u201cBaptist cathedral of the West\u201d, it remains a quiet space for shoppers today. <\/p>\n<h2>Toddington Fingerpost, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire<\/h2><p>\u201cBefore the advent of sat-nav in Britain, drivers relied on signposts or fingerposts, especially at crossroads to help them find their way,\u201d the NHLE writes. <\/p>\n<p>This quirky signpost predates requirements to display road classification numbers and standardised design. Built at some point between 1902 and 1921, the fingerpost harks back to a time of artisanal folk artists building the signs of the area. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//95//42//808x454_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg/" alt=\"Browndown First World War Practice Trenches\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/384x216_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/640x360_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/750x422_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/828x466_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1080x608_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1200x675_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1920x1080_cmsv2_4eb27290-e672-5c0f-9ae3-9fec1cddc791-8919542.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Browndown First World War Practice Trenches<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Historic England Archive<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Browndown First World War Practice Trenches, Gosport, Hampshire<\/h2><p>Thanks to aerial photos taken in 2011, a training site for World War One troops to practice trench warfare was rediscovered. These practice trenches have been surveyed and mapped by Historic England investigators. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMimicking sections of the Western Front, they provided 'textbook' training environments with at least 2 phases of trench digging with opposing frontlines and support trenches separated by a 'no-man's-land'. The Royal Marines Light Infantry and probably the Hampshire Regiment trained there before leaving for the Front via Southampton.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6483333333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//95//42//808x525_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg/" alt=\"A 1970 carved plaque on the side of Mary Ellis' tomb\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/384x249_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/640x415_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/750x486_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/828x537_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1080x700_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1200x778_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/42\/1920x1245_cmsv2_4a6eb82f-c873-594c-bb91-a5420211bb91-8919542.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A 1970 carved plaque on the side of Mary Ellis' tomb<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Historic England Archive<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Three tombs in Church of St Clements, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex<\/h2><p>In this Essex churchyard there are three intriguing tombs, all with unusual stories behind them. The first is a 1609 tomb that commemorates a woman called Mary Ellis who is believed to live to 119 years old. If so, that would put her birth at latest to be the year 1490. Supposedly she died a virgin having never married. <\/p>\n<p>The second tomb belongs to William Goodlad, a nationally famous whaler who charted many important British maritime routes, including a whaling trip to Norway. He has an elaborate tomb that dates back to 1639. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s the tomb of Mary Anna Haddock, whose elaborate 1688 tomb beside her father\u2019s is notable as a rare example of a sole tomb dedicated to a woman in a time of gender inequality. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//95//42//808x454_cmsv2_51ef549a-8235-5f6b-a504-2c4e29831387-8919542.jpg/" alt=\"16 Warley Way, Frinton On Sea, Essex. 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TAX EVASION","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"British police can seize \u20ac3.1m in unpaid tax from Tate brothers, court rules ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"UK police can seize \u20ac3.1m in unpaid tax from Tate brothers, court says","titleListing2":"British police can seize \u20ac3.1m in unpaid tax from Tate brothers, court rules ","leadin":"Andrew, 38, and his younger brother Tristan, 36, face prosecution in both Romania and the UK for human trafficking and other alleged crimes.","summary":"Andrew, 38, and his younger brother Tristan, 36, face prosecution in both Romania and the UK for human trafficking and other alleged crimes.","keySentence":"","url":"british-police-can-seize-31m-in-unpaid-tax-from-tate-brothers-court-rules","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/18\/british-police-can-seize-31m-in-unpaid-tax-from-tate-brothers-court-rules","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have lost a UK court case over unpaid tax, allowing British police to seize \u00a32.6 million (\u20ac3.1m) of their money from seven frozen bank accounts. \n\nThe Devon and Cornwall Police force that brought the case claimed the Tates were \u201cserial\u201d tax avoiders who had not paid any tax on \u00a321m (\u20ac25.4m) of earnings between 2014 and 2022. \n\nThe revenue came from their online businesses, including Cobra Tate, OnlyFans, Hustlers\u2019 University and War Room. \n\nMost of the frozen bank accounts are in their name. However, one, which received a transfer of \u20ac11.4m from the brothers, is in the name of a woman identified only as J. \n\nAnnouncing the verdict on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court, Paul Goldspring, the chief magistrate, said the Tates had engaged in a \u201cstraightforward cheat\u201d of the British tax authorities. \n\n\u201cI am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that they have engaged in long-standing, deliberate conduct in order to evade their tax,\u201d Goldspring ruled. \n\nHe added that \u201cthey had not so much as registered to pay or account for tax, whether personal or otherwise, let alone paid any tax.\" \n\nThe proceedings were civil \u2014 not criminal, which would have required a higher standard of proof. \n\nIn a statement responding to the court decision, Andrew Tate, 38, said: \u201cThis is not justice; it's a coordinated attack on anyone who dares to challenge the system.\u201d \n\nThe former professional kickboxer also wrote a series of tweets decrying the decision. \n\n\u201cWhen they fail to control your influence, they audit your influence,\u201d Tate wrote on X on Wednesday afternoon. \u201cWhen they fail to match your power, they nitpick your paperwork,\u201d he added. \n\nAt a hearing earlier this year, attorney Sarah Clarke quoted an online video in which the 38-year-old admitted that he \u201crefused to pay tax\u201d while living in England. \n\nTate and his brother Tristan, 36, face criminal allegations in both Romania and the UK. They were arrested by Romanian authorities in 2022 and were charged the following year for alleged offences, including human trafficking and being part of a criminal gang that exploited women. \n\nThe brothers are due to be extradited to the UK once the Romanian proceedings finish. British police accuse them of human trafficking and rape committed between 2012 and 2015. \n\nThe Tates deny all the charges. \n\nIn July, senior British police officer Maggie Blyth warned of the dangers of social media influencers like Andrew Tate, saying they were radicalising boys into extreme misogyny. \n\nBlyth described the situation as \u201cquite terrifying\u201d, while the UK\u2019s National Police Chiefs Council called it a \u201cnational emergency\u201d. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have lost a UK court case over unpaid tax, allowing British police to seize \u00a32.6 million (\u20ac3.1m) of their money from seven frozen bank accounts. <\/p>\n<p>The Devon and Cornwall Police force that brought the case claimed the Tates were \u201cserial\u201d tax avoiders who had not paid any tax on \u00a321m (\u20ac25.4m) of earnings between 2014 and 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The revenue came from their online businesses, including Cobra Tate, OnlyFans, Hustlers\u2019 University and War Room. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the frozen bank accounts are in their name. However, one, which received a transfer of \u20ac11.4m from the brothers, is in the name of a woman identified only as J. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the verdict on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court, Paul Goldspring, the chief magistrate, said the Tates had engaged in a \u201cstraightforward cheat\u201d of the British tax authorities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that they have engaged in long-standing, deliberate conduct in order to evade their tax,\u201d Goldspring ruled. <\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cthey had not so much as registered to pay or account for tax, whether personal or otherwise, let alone paid any tax.\" <\/p>\n<p>The proceedings were civil \u2014 not criminal, which would have required a higher standard of proof. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement responding to the court decision, Andrew Tate, 38, said: \u201cThis is not justice; it's a coordinated attack on anyone who dares to challenge the system.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The former professional kickboxer also wrote a series of tweets decrying the decision. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they fail to control your influence, they audit your influence,\u201d Tate wrote on X on Wednesday afternoon. \u201cWhen they fail to match your power, they nitpick your paperwork,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>At a hearing earlier this year, attorney Sarah Clarke quoted an online video in which the 38-year-old admitted that he \u201crefused to pay tax\u201d while living in England. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7297532,8667336\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//08//21//romanian-police-raid-andrew-tates-home-over-new-allegations-involving-minors/">Romanian police raid Andrew Tate's home over new allegations involving minors<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//01//10//tate-brothers-lose-their-appeal-in-romanian-court/">Tate brothers lose their appeal in Romanian court<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tate and his brother Tristan, 36, face criminal allegations in both Romania and the UK. They were arrested by Romanian authorities in 2022 and were charged the following year for alleged offences, including human trafficking and being part of a criminal gang that exploited women. <\/p>\n<p>The brothers are due to be extradited to the UK once the Romanian proceedings finish. British police accuse them of human trafficking and rape committed between 2012 and 2015. <\/p>\n<p>The Tates deny all the charges. <\/p>\n<p>In July, senior British police officer Maggie Blyth warned of the dangers of social media influencers like Andrew Tate, saying they were radicalising boys into extreme misogyny. <\/p>\n<p>Blyth described the situation as \u201cquite terrifying\u201d, while the UK\u2019s National Police Chiefs Council called it a \u201cnational emergency\u201d. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734536524,"updatedAt":1734537313,"publishedAt":1734537310,"firstPublishedAt":1734537310,"lastPublishedAt":1734537310,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/96\/54\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_aa6344f5-69c4-5532-bcf5-d3f907150ff9-8919654.jpg","altText":"Andrew Tate (left) and his younger brother Tristan at the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, on 10 December, 2024. 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Previously, Farage said that although Musk was a supporter of Reform UK, he had never asked or been offered a donation. \n\nMusk has expressed his support for Farage on X, as he wages an increasingly personal battle against British Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer. \n\nIn August, Musk and Starmer became embroiled in a war of words after Musk suggested a \"civil war was inevitable\" following violent riots in the UK that were fuelled by misleading information online and anti-immigration sentiment. \n\nStarmer's spokesperson said there was \"no justification\" for his comments and added he believed social media companies should be doing more to combat misinformation on their platforms. \n\nLast month, Musk reshared a post on X claiming that Reform UK would win the UK's next general election with the words \"yes\".\n\nFarage was propelled into Parliament for the first time following July's election, with his anti-immigration party Reform UK winning over four million votes. The party won 14.3% of the vote share, and gained five seats in the House of Commons. \n\nThe party would have to gain over 326 seats in Parliament to win the next general election.\n\nElectoral laws in the UK stipulate that all donations and loans to political parties worth more than \u00a3500 (\u20ac604) should come from donors registered in the UK. \n\nMusk, who is from South Africa and based in the US, could go through the UK arm of X to make a donation to the party.\n\nAlternatively Musk's father, Errol, told GB News that his son was \"eligible for British citizenship\" as his grandmother was from the UK. \n\n\"If the thing that's stopping Farage from moving ahead is money, then he should get money so that he can move ahead\" Errol said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Nigel Farage said his party is in \"open negotiations\" with US tech billionaire Elon Musk over a substantial donation to his party, Reform UK. <\/p>\n<p>Farage told the BBC the pair \"did talk about money\" during a meeting on Monday at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida alongside Reform UK's new treasurer Nick Candy. <\/p>\n<p>Farage said on Tuesday Musk \u201cleft us with no doubt that he is right behind us.\"<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInevitably, following such intense media speculation, the issue of money was discussed, and there will be ongoing negotiations on that score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments are the first time Farage has confirmed his party could receive a financial donation from Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla and X and Trump's close supporter. Previously, Farage said that although Musk was a supporter of Reform UK, he had never asked or been offered a donation. <\/p>\n<p>Musk has expressed his support for Farage on X, as he wages an increasingly personal battle against British Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer. <\/p>\n<p>In August, Musk and Starmer became embroiled in a war of words after Musk suggested a \"civil war was inevitable\" following violent riots in the UK that were fuelled by misleading information online and anti-immigration sentiment. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8514202\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//06//19//just-how-extreme-is-nigel-farages-reform-uk/">Just how extreme is Nigel Farage's Reform UK?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starmer's spokesperson said there was \"no justification\" for his comments and added he believed social media companies should be doing more to combat misinformation on their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, Musk reshared a post on X claiming that Reform UK would win the UK's next general election with the words \"yes\".<\/p>\n<p>Farage was propelled into Parliament for the first time following July's election, with his anti-immigration party Reform UK winning over four million votes. The party won 14.3% of the vote share, and gained five seats in the House of Commons. <\/p>\n<p>The party would have to gain over 326 seats in Parliament to win the next general election.<\/p>\n<p>Electoral laws in the UK stipulate that all donations and loans to political parties worth more than \u00a3500 (\u20ac604) should come from donors registered in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Musk, who is from South Africa and based in the US, could go through the UK arm of X to make a donation to the party.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively Musk's father, Errol, told GB News that his son was \"eligible for British citizenship\" as his grandmother was from the UK. <\/p>\n<p>\"If the thing that's stopping Farage from moving ahead is money, then he should get money so that he can move ahead\" Errol said. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734504938,"updatedAt":1734521357,"publishedAt":1734519690,"firstPublishedAt":1734519690,"lastPublishedAt":1734519690,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/80\/22\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_87c9b14e-8830-5b40-9002-f74ad54c6643-8918022.jpg","altText":"Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during the New York Young Republican Club's annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in New York.","caption":"Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during the New York Young Republican Club's annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in New York.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2940,"urlSafeValue":"paternoster","title":"Tamsin 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INFLATION","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"UK inflation rises further above Bank of England's target in November","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"UK inflation rises further above BoE's target in November","titleListing2":"UK inflation rises further above Bank of England's target in November","leadin":"The biggest increase since March and the second rise in two months is likely to cement market expectations that the Bank of England will keep its main interest rate unchanged after its policy meeting on Thursday.","summary":"The biggest increase since March and the second rise in two months is likely to cement market expectations that the Bank of England will keep its main interest rate unchanged after its policy meeting on Thursday.","keySentence":"","url":"uk-inflation-rises-further-above-bank-of-englands-target-in-november","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/18\/uk-inflation-rises-further-above-bank-of-englands-target-in-november","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"UK inflation has risen to its highest level since March, driven by an increase in fuel prices last month, official figures have revealed.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said consumer price inflation rose by 2.6% in the year to November, up from 2.3% the previous month. The increase, which took inflation further away from the Bank of England's target of 2%, was in line with market expectations.\n\nThis is the biggest increase since March and the second rise in two months and is likely to cement market expectations that the Bank of England will keep its main interest rate unchanged at 4.75% after its policy meeting on Thursday.\n\nRate-setters had anticipated a pick-up in inflation when the central bank last cut rates in early November as price pressures eased earlier in the year - in September, inflation had fallen to its lowest level since April 2021.\n\nEven so, inflation in the UK and across the world is far lower than it was a couple of years back, partly because central banks dramatically increased borrowing costs from near zero during the coronavirus pandemic when prices started to shoot up, first as a result of supply chain issues and then because of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine which pushed up energy costs.\n\nAs inflation rates have fallen from multi-decade highs, the central banks have started cutting interest rates, though few, if any, economists think that rates will fall back to the super-low levels that persisted in the years after the global financial crisis of 2008-9.\n\nRecent developments have scaled back expectations of rapid cuts from the Bank of England.\n\nCritics have argued that the new Labour government's first budget in October will lead to higher inflation. The extra public spending announced in the budget will be largely funded through increased business taxes and borrowing. \n\nEconomists think that the splurge, coupled with the prospect of businesses cushioning the tax hikes by raising prices, could push inflation higher than it otherwise would have been.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>UK inflation has risen to its highest level since March, driven by an increase in fuel prices last month, official figures have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics said consumer price inflation rose by 2.6% in the year to November, up from 2.3% the previous month. The increase, which took inflation further away from the Bank of England's target of 2%, was in line with market expectations.<\/p>\n<p>This is the biggest increase since March and the second rise in two months and is likely to cement market expectations that the Bank of England will keep its main interest rate unchanged at 4.75% after its policy meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Rate-setters had anticipated a pick-up in inflation when the central bank last cut rates in early November as price pressures eased earlier in the year - in September, inflation had fallen to its lowest level since April 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8916978,8914472\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//16//brussels-takes-uk-to-court-over-eu-citizens-rights-brexit-deal-free-movement/">Brussels takes UK to court over EU citizens\u2019 rights<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//18//what-is-the-uks-project-pisces-new-private-stock-market-explained/">What is the UK\u2019s project Pisces? New private stock market explained <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Even so, inflation in the UK and across the world is far lower than it was a couple of years back, partly because central banks dramatically increased borrowing costs from near zero during the coronavirus pandemic when prices started to shoot up, first as a result of supply chain issues and then because of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine which pushed up energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>As inflation rates have fallen from multi-decade highs, the central banks have started cutting interest rates, though few, if any, economists think that rates will fall back to the super-low levels that persisted in the years after the global financial crisis of 2008-9.<\/p>\n<p>Recent developments have scaled back expectations of rapid cuts from the Bank of England.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have argued that the new Labour government's first budget in October will lead to higher inflation. The extra public spending announced in the budget will be largely funded through increased business taxes and borrowing. <\/p>\n<p>Economists think that the splurge, coupled with the prospect of businesses cushioning the tax hikes by raising prices, could push inflation higher than it otherwise would have been.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734508435,"updatedAt":1734509717,"publishedAt":1734509691,"firstPublishedAt":1734509691,"lastPublishedAt":1734509691,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/81\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a2f909b4-ce02-563b-8ae4-6b0a803a216f-8918190.jpg","altText":"File picture of the Bank of England, at the financial district in London","caption":"File picture of the Bank of England, at the financial district in London","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Kin Cheung\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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His new book takes a look at a period when some of the greatest dealing was done.","summary":"Art historian James Stourton worked his way up from humble beginnings as a porter to become the head of Sotheby's UK. His new book takes a look at a period when some of the greatest dealing was done.","keySentence":"","url":"rogues-and-scholars-the-two-faces-of-the-modern-day-antique-dealer","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/18\/rogues-and-scholars-the-two-faces-of-the-modern-day-antique-dealer","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Top-of-the-range auctions almost always make the headlines nowadays. There's something thrilling about an item that's been lost or hidden away suddenly being given a high value. Many of us long for the chance of seeing our own undiscovered treasure going under the hammer to make us our fortune.\n\nEven if we're not actually involved in the sales process, we can dream. There's something almost magical about the drama of a real-life auction, particularly if you're attending a sale at one of the most famous auction houses in the world. \n\nI have to declare an interest. I've been there, and behind the scenes as well. Some years ago, I spent a few months working at one of the world's most famous auction houses, Sotheby's. \n\nThere was the every-day routine of preparing sales, as the experts weeded out the unwanted and accepted the valuable items (\"property\") for their next specialist sale. Then came the compilation of the catalogue followed by the high-profile publicity that went with a luxury auction. \n\nRegular clients - by that I mean the wealthy and high-spending ones - were invited to private viewings to enjoy champagne and canap\u00e9s while taking their time to eye-up the collection. Pre-viewing indeed. \n\nIf they were honoured guests, and that meant well-known as buyers to the auctioneers and experts, they might have been invited to an intimate pre-auction dinner with other potential buyers, most of whom were good friends, as well as rivals. I remember being brought in to \"make-up numbers\" at one dinner and being tasked with looking after a particular guest, a handsome and charming man from Italy. It was one of my easier assignments. I didn't know it but he was the star bidder. He had been sent over by his father as a secret bidder. The other guests and buyers were curious and tried to find out his name. I couldn't help. I was having such a good time, I couldn't remember it. \n\nHis out-of-the blue bid was successful and he paid \u00a3750,000 (\u20ac908,000) for a very rare book. I learned then that, even within such a rarefied atmosphere, it was still all about sales. \n\nMaking a market out a molehill\n\nSurprisingly, the glitzy glamour and razzamatazz of the modern-day auction is a relatively new sales device. It was inspired by Peter Wilson, the \"buccaneering and brilliant\" chairman of Sotheby's between 1958 and 1980.\n\nArt historian James Stourton author of a new book: Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, credits Wilson with transforming the art market into what it is today. \n\n\"London became the leading art city in Europe and that was really because of Peter, who created the modern art market,\" Stourton, also a former chairman of Sotheby\u2019s, explains.\n\n\"His simple vision was to persuade an American to sell a French picture in London back to an American. There was no intrinsic market in London at all. It was almost a three-card trick.\n\n\"He invented this strange thing called 'International Auctioneering' something that had never happened before in which you unite American billionaires with \u2013 at that time \u2013 Greek billionaires in the same room.\n\n\"It was easier to do in Europe because the thinking was that Americans come to London but Greeks don't go to New York so London seemed to be the perfect place to do that.\"\n\nLondon calling\n\nStourton concentrates on the post-war period and leads up to the beginning of the 21st century. He takes us on a wide-ranging journey not just about rogues and scholars but also explaining how the over-the-top art market of today came into being. \n\nWho knew that old-school auctioneers were much more likely to be parochial and provincial sellers dealing in the dull detritus of the richer people's lives. I imagine them more as an under-the-counter type of dealer than I'd be looking at now. Today's auctioneers have celebrity status. That wasn't available then.\n\nThe book's full of fascinating snippets ranging from behaviour - how fabulously famous Brian Sewell had difficulty making an entry into the art world because his accent didn't quite fit the mould - to more educational aspects such as how the silver market came into being. It's all to do with electric light and eating in the kitchen, I learn. As people began to lead a more casual life, table silver lost some of its shine. A household's loss became a collector's gain. \n\nBut running through it all is the theme of rogues and scholars - what makes the difference? Could it be argued that Peter Wilson, a scholarly connoisseur of art, might even have had a roguish quality about him? \n\nStourton is not sure there's a distinct demarcation.\n\n\"They\u2019re not rogues OR scholars. What's fascinating is how rogues were often scholars and scholars were often rogues.\n\n\"Some of the cleverest people were the biggest rogues. They didn't need to be rogues and it's a complete mystery to me as to why some of the most successful dealers in the world felt the need to rip off giant estates and blow everything so unnecessarily. I've seen it time and time again \u2013 they're reckless, that\u2019s the answer.\"\n\nHe cites antiquities dealer Robin Symes for his \"his brilliance and vision\" in taking antiquities from a value of between $2,000 and $3,000 and persuading people that the \"misshapen lumps of stone\" were by Picasso or Henry Moore.\n\n\"He had this captive audience in America, top of which was the Getty and the problem was supply \u2013 there was no supply at that level.\"\n\nStourton tells how Symes decided to look elsewhere for supplies and teamed up with Giacomo Medici, controller of the Tombaroli, a group of tomb robbers who operated in Sicily, to find his own supply.\n\n\"No one asked any questions, they were just so pleased and thrilled to buy these things. But then the whole pack of cards came tumbling down at once.\"\n\nThere are many other examples. Antique dealer John Hobbs, for instance, was the \"iconoclast\" who loved \"cocking a snoop at the establishment\" and came dramatically unstuck. I declare an interest in that I knew him a little and spent quite some time in his shop in Belgravia's Pimlico Road. It was like a European Aladdin's cave, a treasure trove of rare and very pricy goodies. I remember liking the look of an opulent Venetian glass chandelier. It was on sale for \u00a312,000 (\u20ac14,534). \n\nUnfortunately, Hobbs comes within the rogues' gallery part of Stourton's book.\n\nStourton explains: \"He was a creative genius, in a way. If he'd been selling these things as new furniture, I think we'd all be praising him and lauding him to the skies.\n\n\"I was simply staggered by John Hobbs because, every time I went there, I thought he knew exactly what we wanted to find and see and, if there wasn't the Grand Tour furniture we wanted to see, he'd invent it.\n\n\"He made the Swedish neo-classical furniture in some ways so much more amusing and better than the original. But, of course,\" Stourton laughs wryly, \"The whole thing was a massive forgery.\"\n\nMarket manoeuvres \n\nSo what of the future? Where does Stourton see the art market going?\n\n\"I don't think anyone can sensibly answer that because it's always confounded us. All we can say is that the art market over the past 20 years has gone through its own revolution.\n\n\"It's the combination of globalisation, which changed everything, the internet and the rise of contemporary art. The two-stop models of Sotheby\u2019s and Christie's and London and New York have been \"blown out of the water\".\n\n\"That's because, with globalisation, all these new markets emerged. The world has changed, it's moved on.\n\n\"Contemporary art still seems to me that it's going to be the ruling market leader over the next 10 to 20 years, certainly the next decade.\n\n\"There's no question the interesting new artists are coming out of places like China and Africa \u2013 they always came out of South America - so a lot of change.\"\n\nHe goes on: \"The trouble is that everywhere is down right now so it's a bad time to read the market.\n\n\"What re-stimulates the market is two things. First of all, economic confidence, and there isn\u2019t economic confidence around at the moment and, secondly, great sales.\"\n\n\"I don't know for certain where it's going to go but there's still all to play for.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Top-of-the-range auctions almost always make the headlines nowadays. There's something thrilling about an item that's been lost or hidden away suddenly being given a high value. Many of us long for the chance of seeing our own undiscovered treasure going under the hammer to make us our fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we're not actually involved in the sales process, we can dream. There's something almost magical about the drama of a real-life auction, particularly if you're attending a sale at one of the most famous auction houses in the world. <\/p>\n<p>I have to declare an interest. I've been there, and behind the scenes as well. Some years ago, I spent a few months working at one of the world's most famous auction houses, Sotheby's. <\/p>\n<p>There was the every-day routine of preparing sales, as the experts weeded out the unwanted and accepted the valuable items (\"property\") for their next specialist sale. Then came the compilation of the catalogue followed by the high-profile publicity that went with a luxury auction. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8788378\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//14//game-of-thrones-props-including-iron-throne-fetches-nearly-20-million-at-auction/">/u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 props - including Iron Throne - fetches nearly \u20ac20 million at auction<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Regular clients - by that I mean the wealthy and high-spending ones - were invited to private viewings to enjoy champagne and canap\u00e9s while taking their time to eye-up the collection. Pre-viewing indeed. <\/p>\n<p>If they were honoured guests, and that meant well-known as buyers to the auctioneers and experts, they might have been invited to an intimate pre-auction dinner with other potential buyers, most of whom were good friends, as well as rivals. I remember being brought in to \"make-up numbers\" at one dinner and being tasked with looking after a particular guest, a handsome and charming man from Italy. It was one of my easier assignments. I didn't know it but he was the star bidder. He had been sent over by his father as a secret bidder. The other guests and buyers were curious and tried to find out his name. I couldn't help. I was having such a good time, I couldn't remember it. <\/p>\n<p>His out-of-the blue bid was successful and he paid \u00a3750,000 (\u20ac908,000) for a very rare book. I learned then that, even within such a rarefied atmosphere, it was still all about sales. <\/p>\n<h2>Making a market out a molehill<\/h2><p>Surprisingly, the glitzy glamour and razzamatazz of the modern-day auction is a relatively new sales device. It was inspired by Peter Wilson, the \"buccaneering and brilliant\" chairman of Sotheby's between 1958 and 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Art historian James Stourton author of a new book: Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, credits Wilson with transforming the art market into what it is today. <\/p>\n<p>\"London became the leading art city in Europe and that was really because of Peter, who created the modern art market,\" Stourton, also a former chairman of Sotheby\u2019s, explains.<\/p>\n<p>\"His simple vision was to persuade an American to sell a French picture in London back to an American. There was no intrinsic market in London at all. It was almost a three-card trick.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8547582,8025884\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//07//03//titian-masterpiece-stolen-and-found-at-bus-stop-sells-for-20m/">Titian masterpiece stolen and found at bus stop sells for \u20ac20m<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//11//09//picasso-painting-sells-for-130-million-and-breaks-2023-art-auction-record/">Picasso painting sells for \u20ac130 million and breaks 2023 art auction record <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"He invented this strange thing called 'International Auctioneering' something that had never happened before in which you unite American billionaires with \u2013 at that time \u2013 Greek billionaires in the same room.<\/p>\n<p>\"It was easier to do in Europe because the thinking was that Americans come to London but Greeks don't go to New York so London seemed to be the perfect place to do that.\"<\/p>\n<h2>London calling<\/h2><p>Stourton concentrates on the post-war period and leads up to the beginning of the 21st century. He takes us on a wide-ranging journey not just about rogues and scholars but also explaining how the over-the-top art market of today came into being. <\/p>\n<p>Who knew that old-school auctioneers were much more likely to be parochial and provincial sellers dealing in the dull detritus of the richer people's lives. I imagine them more as an under-the-counter type of dealer than I'd be looking at now. Today's auctioneers have celebrity status. That wasn't available then.<\/p>\n<p>The book's full of fascinating snippets ranging from behaviour - how fabulously famous Brian Sewell had difficulty making an entry into the art world because his accent didn't quite fit the mould - to more educational aspects such as how the silver market came into being. It's all to do with electric light and eating in the kitchen, I learn. As people began to lead a more casual life, table silver lost some of its shine. A household's loss became a collector's gain. <\/p>\n<p>But running through it all is the theme of rogues and scholars - what makes the difference? Could it be argued that Peter Wilson, a scholarly connoisseur of art, might even have had a roguish quality about him? <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//20//36//808x608_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg/" alt=\"Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945-2000 by James Stourton\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/384x288_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/640x480_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/750x563_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/828x621_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/1080x810_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/1200x900_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/1920x1440_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945-2000 by James Stourton<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Head of Zeus<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stourton is not sure there's a distinct demarcation.<\/p>\n<p>\"They\u2019re not rogues OR scholars. What's fascinating is how rogues were often scholars and scholars were often rogues.<\/p>\n<p>\"Some of the cleverest people were the biggest rogues. They didn't need to be rogues and it's a complete mystery to me as to why some of the most successful dealers in the world felt the need to rip off giant estates and blow everything so unnecessarily. I've seen it time and time again \u2013 they're reckless, that\u2019s the answer.\"<\/p>\n<p>He cites antiquities dealer Robin Symes for his \"his brilliance and vision\" in taking antiquities from a value of between $2,000 and $3,000 and persuading people that the \"misshapen lumps of stone\" were by Picasso or Henry Moore.<\/p>\n<p>\"He had this captive audience in America, top of which was the Getty and the problem was supply \u2013 there was no supply at that level.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//20//36//808x808_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg/" alt=\"James Stourton, former head of Sotheby's auction house in London \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/384x384_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/640x640_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/750x750_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/828x828_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/1080x1080_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/1200x1200_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/1920x1920_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">James Stourton, former head of Sotheby's auction house in London <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">James Stourton<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stourton tells how Symes decided to look elsewhere for supplies and teamed up with Giacomo Medici, controller of the Tombaroli, a group of tomb robbers who operated in Sicily, to find his own supply.<\/p>\n<p>\"No one asked any questions, they were just so pleased and thrilled to buy these things. But then the whole pack of cards came tumbling down at once.\"<\/p>\n<p>There are many other examples. Antique dealer John Hobbs, for instance, was the \"iconoclast\" who loved \"cocking a snoop at the establishment\" and came dramatically unstuck. I declare an interest in that I knew him a little and spent quite some time in his shop in Belgravia's Pimlico Road. It was like a European Aladdin's cave, a treasure trove of rare and very pricy goodies. I remember liking the look of an opulent Venetian glass chandelier. It was on sale for \u00a312,000 (\u20ac14,534). <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Hobbs comes within the rogues' gallery part of Stourton's book.<\/p>\n<p>Stourton explains: \"He was a creative genius, in a way. If he'd been selling these things as new furniture, I think we'd all be praising him and lauding him to the skies.<\/p>\n<p>\"I was simply staggered by John Hobbs because, every time I went there, I thought he knew exactly what we wanted to find and see and, if there wasn't the Grand Tour furniture we wanted to see, he'd invent it.<\/p>\n<p>\"He made the Swedish neo-classical furniture in some ways so much more amusing and better than the original. But, of course,\" Stourton laughs wryly, \"The whole thing was a massive forgery.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Market manoeuvres<\/h2><p>So what of the future? Where does Stourton see the art market going?<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't think anyone can sensibly answer that because it's always confounded us. All we can say is that the art market over the past 20 years has gone through its own revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's the combination of globalisation, which changed everything, the internet and the rise of contemporary art. The two-stop models of Sotheby\u2019s and Christie's and London and New York have been \"blown out of the water\".<\/p>\n<p>\"That's because, with globalisation, all these new markets emerged. The world has changed, it's moved on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8352962\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//05//art-paris-leans-into-its-frenchness-for-2024-edition-with-rising-talents-in-the-spotlight/">Art Paris leans into its Frenchness for 2024 edition, with rising talents in the spotlight<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Contemporary art still seems to me that it's going to be the ruling market leader over the next 10 to 20 years, certainly the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>\"There's no question the interesting new artists are coming out of places like China and Africa \u2013 they always came out of South America - so a lot of change.\"<\/p>\n<p>He goes on: \"The trouble is that everywhere is down right now so it's a bad time to read the market.<\/p>\n<p>\"What re-stimulates the market is two things. First of all, economic confidence, and there isn\u2019t economic confidence around at the moment and, secondly, great sales.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't know for certain where it's going to go but there's still all to play for.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732035254,"updatedAt":1734527977,"publishedAt":1734504821,"firstPublishedAt":1734418421,"lastPublishedAt":1734527977,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Richard Drew\/Copyright 2016 The AP. All rights reserved.","altText":"File picture of Francis Bacon's \"Two Studies for a Self-Portrait\", seen during an auction preview at Sotheby's, in New York","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"File picture of Francis Bacon's \"Two Studies for a Self-Portrait\", seen during an auction preview at Sotheby's, in New York","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_85ce8fc3-b07a-51dc-8f21-3abb837f9d43-8862036.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1280},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"altText":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":800,"caption":null,"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ebe0390c-84f4-5f97-b468-3b456c39afc1-8862036.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":800},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945-2000 by James Stourton is published by Head of Zeus ","altText":"Author James Stourton gives his take on the post-war Rogues and Scholars of the London Art Market","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"Author James Stourton gives his take on the post-war Rogues and Scholars of the London Art Market","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/20\/36\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ae883c11-6315-5e21-ac54-930a3d7a12e5-8862036.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1440}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"sinclair","twitter":null,"id":2888,"title":"Lulu Sinclair"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"antiquities","titleRaw":"Antiquities","id":28208,"title":"Antiquities","slug":"antiquities"},{"urlSafeValue":"antique","titleRaw":"antique","id":16282,"title":"antique","slug":"antique"},{"urlSafeValue":"auction","titleRaw":"Auction","id":7184,"title":"Auction","slug":"auction"},{"urlSafeValue":"painting","titleRaw":"Painting","id":4155,"title":"Painting","slug":"painting"}],"widgets":[{"count":2,"slug":"image"},{"count":3,"slug":"related"}],"related":[{"id":2638482},{"id":2644652},{"id":2682930}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news\/culture-news"},"vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"culture","id":10,"title":"Culture","slug":"culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","id":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/culture\/culture-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":291,"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","url":"\/news\/europe\/united-kingdom"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84011001","84012003","84031001","84032001","84101001","84102002","84102008","84111001","84112001","84161001","84162001","84201001","84202001","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["a_and_e_fine_arts","arts_and_entertainment","business","business_general","home_and_garden","home_and_garden_appliances","home_and_garden_interior_decorating","law_government_and_politics","law_government_and_politics_general","real_estate","real_estate_general","shopping","shopping_general","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/culture\/2024\/12\/18\/rogues-and-scholars-the-two-faces-of-the-modern-day-antique-dealer","lastModified":1734527977},{"id":2705492,"cid":8916978,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241217_MKSU_57299826","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"BUSINESS markets What is the UK\u2019s project Pisces? New private stock market explained","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"What is the UK\u2019s project Pisces? New private stock market explained ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What is the UK\u2019s project Pisces? New private stock market explained ","titleListing2":"What is the UK\u2019s project Pisces? New private stock market explained ","leadin":"The FCA has launched a consultation on the proposed launch of a new private stock market called Pisces. Here's a look at how it would work.","summary":"The FCA has launched a consultation on the proposed launch of a new private stock market called Pisces. Here's a look at how it would work.","keySentence":"","url":"what-is-the-uks-project-pisces-new-private-stock-market-explained","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/12\/18\/what-is-the-uks-project-pisces-new-private-stock-market-explained","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"If successful, the new private stock market could generate a pipeline of companies for a full IPO on a public market in the future. However, there will be restrictions on who can buy and sell shares on the platform, meaning it won\u2019t replace an established market like AIM.\n\n\u201cThe proposed new stock market called \u2018Pisces\u2019 could help private companies get used to the idea of slices of their business being owned by different people,\u201d Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell, said in an email note to Euronews Business.\n\n\u201cIt might act as a stepping stone towards a full IPO and fits well into broader plans to make the UK a more attractive place for companies to list their shares.\"\n\nNew habits for private companies under Pisces\n\nCoatsworth further noted that Pisces should help privately-owned companies get used to regular financial reporting, transparency as a business, and understanding that a company is run for the best interests of shareholders, not the board of directors.\n\n\u201cIt could also encourage staff in companies using Pisces to develop a saving and investing habit. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for private company share ownership is that staff are often put off by the general inability to sell those shares at regular intervals.\n\n\u201cA lot of private companies won\u2019t offer the ability for staff to trade shares, meaning some people are stuck owning the equity until the business either lists on a public market or there is an internal event where they can sell down,\" he added.\n\nImproved liquidity prospects for private firms\n\nThe analyst also said that in theory, Pisces could improve liquidity by allowing private company shares to be traded at more regular intervals. \n\n\"However, it has only been designed for intermittent trading, not the continuous trading during market hours that you get with publicly listed stocks. Such restrictions would give a company control over when changes in share ownership can happen,\u201d he added.\n\nNot a good year for London's stock exchange\n\nThe consultation comes as London's stock exchange is on course for its worst year for company departures since the financial crisis.\n\nFTSE group Ashtead is among the latest companies to shift its primary listing to New York, where it makes nearly all its profits. Just Eat Takeaway, meanwhile, delisted in recent weeks from London in another blow to the UK market.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>If successful, the new private stock market could generate a pipeline of companies for a full IPO on a public market in the future. However, there will be restrictions on who can buy and sell shares on the platform, meaning it won\u2019t replace an established market like AIM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed new stock market called \u2018Pisces\u2019 could help private companies get used to the idea of slices of their business being owned by different people,\u201d Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell, said in an email note to Euronews Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might act as a stepping stone towards a full IPO and fits well into broader plans to make the UK a more attractive place for companies to list their shares.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8915526\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//17//european-stock-markets-hit-by-germany-and-frances-political-upheavals/">European stock markets hit by Germany and France's political upheavals <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>New habits for private companies under Pisces<\/h2><p>Coatsworth further noted that Pisces should help privately-owned companies get used to regular financial reporting, transparency as a business, and understanding that a company is run for the best interests of shareholders, not the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could also encourage staff in companies using Pisces to develop a saving and investing habit. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for private company share ownership is that staff are often put off by the general inability to sell those shares at regular intervals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of private companies won\u2019t offer the ability for staff to trade shares, meaning some people are stuck owning the equity until the business either lists on a public market or there is an internal event where they can sell down,\" he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8914634\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//16//canal-shares-see-drop-on-london-trading-debut-after-split-from-vivendi/">Canal+ shares see drop on London trading debut after split from Vivendi<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Improved liquidity prospects for private firms<\/h2><p>The analyst also said that in theory, Pisces could improve liquidity by allowing private company shares to be traded at more regular intervals. <\/p>\n<p>\"However, it has only been designed for intermittent trading, not the continuous trading during market hours that you get with publicly listed stocks. Such restrictions would give a company control over when changes in share ownership can happen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8477212\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//06//07//london-stock-exchange-warned-over-need-to-do-more-to-hold-on-to-traders/">London Stock Exchange urged to do more to hold onto retail traders<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Not a good year for London's stock exchange<\/h2><p>The consultation comes as London's stock exchange is on course for its worst year for company departures since the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>FTSE group Ashtead is among the latest companies to shift its primary listing to New York, where it makes nearly all its profits. Just Eat Takeaway, meanwhile, delisted in recent weeks from London in another blow to the UK market.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734445014,"updatedAt":1734501181,"publishedAt":1734501157,"firstPublishedAt":1734501157,"lastPublishedAt":1734501180,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/69\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_cb5e2bf9-4251-5ad3-90c0-fb9ec3c589c9-8916978.jpg","altText":"A sign is seen outside the London Stock Exchange in London, Friday, Aug. 17, 2007.","caption":"A sign is seen outside the London Stock Exchange in London, Friday, Aug. 17, 2007.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"SANG TAN\/AP2007","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":3000,"height":1307}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1618,"urlSafeValue":"barnes","title":"Angela 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accused of being Chinese spy loses legal battle with UK intelligence agency ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Lawyer accused of being Chinese spy in the UK loses legal case","titleListing2":"Lawyer accused of being a Chinese spy loses legal battle with UK intelligence agency ","leadin":"MI5 issued a security alert in 2022 that Christine Lee had engaged in \"political interference\" for a branch of the Chinese Communist Party.","summary":"MI5 issued a security alert in 2022 that Christine Lee had engaged in \"political interference\" for a branch of the Chinese Communist Party.","keySentence":"","url":"lawyer-accused-of-being-chinese-spy-loses-legal-battle-with-uk-intelligence-agency","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/17\/lawyer-accused-of-being-chinese-spy-loses-legal-battle-with-uk-intelligence-agency","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A lawyer accused of being a Chinese spy and trying to interfere in British politics on Beijing's behalf has lost a legal battle against the UK's domestic intelligence agency MI5.\u00a0\n\nIn January 2022, MI5 issued a security alert to lawmakers warning that Christine Lee \u2014 a London-based lawyer \u2014 was involved in \"political interference activities\" in the UK in coordination with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s United Front Work Department (UFWD), an organisation known for exerting Beijing's influence abroad.\u00a0\n\nAt the time, the speaker of the House of Commons, the UK's lower house of parliament, warned that Lee had \"facilitated\" secretive donations to British political parties and legislators \"on behalf of foreign nationals\". MPs must declare the source of donations they receive, which are required to come from UK-registered electors or entities.\u00a0\n\nLee\u2019s firm, Christine Lee & Co., primarily provided legal services to the British Chinese community and had served as a legal advisor to the Chinese embassy in London.\u00a0\n\nLee's son, Daniel Wilkes, worked as a diary manager for lawmaker Barry Gardiner for five years, during which she donated approximately \u00a3500,000 (\u20ac605,000) to the MP, mostly to cover office expenses, according to official records.\u00a0\n\nAlthough she was not charged with any criminal offence, Lee brought a legal action against MI5, arguing that its alert was politically motivated and violated her human rights.\n\nOn Tuesday, three judges from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal unanimously rejected her claim, ruling that MI5 had issued the warning for \"legitimate reasons\".\n\nThe tribunal\u2019s ruling came a day after British authorities named Chinese national Yang Tengo as an alleged spy who forged connections with Prince Andrew and aimed to influence key figures in the British establishment on behalf of China\u2019s UFWD. \n\nYang, 50, was banned from entering the UK last year after MI5 accused him of conducting \"covert and deceptive activity\" for China.\u00a0\n\nOfficials described Yang's relationship with Andrew as covert, pointing to correspondence that mentioned facilitating people\u2019s movement \"unnoticed in and out of the House of Windsor\". Yang has strongly denied the allegations.\n\nResponding to the claims on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian called the accusations against Yang \"ridiculous\", while the Chinese embassy in London accused British lawmakers of \"smearing\" China.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe urge the UK to immediately stop creating trouble, stop anti-China political manipulations, and stop undermining normal personnel exchanges between China and the UK,\u201d the embassy said in a statement published on its website.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A lawyer accused of being a Chinese spy and trying to interfere in British politics on Beijing's behalf has lost a legal battle against the UK's domestic intelligence agency MI5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, MI5 issued a security alert to lawmakers warning that Christine Lee \u2014 a London-based lawyer \u2014 was involved in \"political interference activities\" in the UK in coordination with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s United Front Work Department (UFWD), an organisation known for exerting Beijing's influence abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the speaker of the House of Commons, the UK's lower house of parliament, warned that Lee had \"facilitated\" secretive donations to British political parties and legislators \"on behalf of foreign nationals\". MPs must declare the source of donations they receive, which are required to come from UK-registered electors or entities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s firm, Christine Lee & Co., primarily provided legal services to the British Chinese community and had served as a legal advisor to the Chinese embassy in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee's son, Daniel Wilkes, worked as a diary manager for lawmaker Barry Gardiner for five years, during which she donated approximately \u00a3500,000 (\u20ac605,000) to the MP, mostly to cover office expenses, according to official records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although she was not charged with any criminal offence, Lee brought a legal action against MI5, arguing that its alert was politically motivated and violated her human rights.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, three judges from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal unanimously rejected her claim, ruling that MI5 had issued the warning for \"legitimate reasons\".<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal\u2019s ruling came a day after British authorities named Chinese national Yang Tengo as an alleged spy who forged connections with Prince Andrew and aimed to influence key figures in the British establishment on behalf of China\u2019s UFWD. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8401172,8909850\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//04//26//two-men-charged-in-uk-with-spying-for-china-granted-bail-after-london-court-appearance/">Two men charged in UK with spying for China granted bail after London court appearance<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//13//suspected-chinese-spy-with-links-to-prince-andrew-banned-from-uk/">Suspected Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew banned from UK<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yang, 50, was banned from entering the UK last year after MI5 accused him of conducting \"covert and deceptive activity\" for China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials described Yang's relationship with Andrew as covert, pointing to correspondence that mentioned facilitating people\u2019s movement \"unnoticed in and out of the House of Windsor\". Yang has strongly denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the claims on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian called the accusations against Yang \"ridiculous\", while the Chinese embassy in London accused British lawmakers of \"smearing\" China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the UK to immediately stop creating trouble, stop anti-China political manipulations, and stop undermining normal personnel exchanges between China and the UK,\u201d the embassy said in a statement published on its website.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734450539,"updatedAt":1734453272,"publishedAt":1734452558,"firstPublishedAt":1734452558,"lastPublishedAt":1734452558,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/73\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f484dbb9-d171-590b-bb74-22b27f636074-8917342.jpg","altText":" A Chinese national flag is raised at the Chinese embassy in London, Monday, 11 September 2023.","caption":" A Chinese national flag is raised at the Chinese embassy in London, Monday, 11 September 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Kin Cheung, File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7800,"slug":"united-kingdom","urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","titleRaw":"United Kingdom"},{"id":27090,"slug":"spy","urlSafeValue":"spy","title":"Spy","titleRaw":"Spy"},{"id":311,"slug":"china","urlSafeValue":"china","title":"China","titleRaw":"China"},{"id":20848,"slug":"china-communist-party","urlSafeValue":"china-communist-party","title":"China Communist Party ","titleRaw":"China Communist Party "}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2643820},{"id":2528498},{"id":2196100}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Oman Al Yahyai","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/europe-news\/europe-news"},"vertical":"my-europe","verticals":[{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"},"themes":[{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/my-europe\/europe-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":56,"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":291,"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","url":"\/news\/europe\/united-kingdom"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","80122006","80222006","84111001","84112004","84112005","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","crime_high_and_medium_risk","crime_high_medium_and_low_risk","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_issues","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/17\/lawyer-accused-of-being-chinese-spy-loses-legal-battle-with-uk-intelligence-agency","lastModified":1734452558},{"id":2704642,"cid":8914780,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241216_CMSU_57291038","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"GREEN-Want to try out climate fiction? Take your pick from the finalists of the first-ever fiction prize","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Want to try out climate fiction? Take your pick from the finalists of the first-ever fiction prize","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Best climate fiction reads 2024: Meet the finalists of a new UK prize","titleListing2":"Want to try out climate fiction? Take your pick from the finalists of the first-ever fiction prize","leadin":"The first-ever Climate Fiction prize has announced its longlist of books - and they\u2019re all written by women.","summary":"The first-ever Climate Fiction prize has announced its longlist of books - and they\u2019re all written by women.","keySentence":"","url":"want-to-try-out-climate-fiction-take-your-pick-from-the-finalists-of-the-first-ever-fictio","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/12\/16\/want-to-try-out-climate-fiction-take-your-pick-from-the-finalists-of-the-first-ever-fictio","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The longlist for the first ever Climate Fiction Prize has been revealed and all nine books are by women.\n\nThe prize will be awarded to a work of fiction that puts the climate crisis front and centre with the head judge saying the competition aims to \u201creach hearts and minds\u201d.\u00a0\n\nThe list includes the 2024 Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey for her work of climate fiction, \u2018Orbital\u2019. The longlist also features two debut authors.\u00a0\n\nThis new literary prize was first announced at the esteemed Hay Festival of Literature & Arts last June and is worth \u00a310,000 (\u20ac12,058).\n\nWhy climate fiction deserves its own literary award\n\n\u201cMy fellow judges and I are truly delighted with this first ever longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize,\u201d says Madeliene Bunting, the award-winning British writer who is chairing the judging panel.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWith the climate crisis ever more urgent, this globe-spanning list offers a unique collection of narratives, styles and genres, exploring the pre-eminent struggle of our time.\u201d\n\nThe judging panel also includes the British nature writer Nicola Chester and the wildlife writer and broadcaster David Lindo, better known as \u2018The Urban Birder\u2019.\n\nBut it also includes the young climate justice activist Tori Tsui, who published her debut novel about eco-anxiety, \u2018It's Not Just You\u2019 in 2023, and the Hay Festival\u2019s sustainability director, Andy Fryers.\n\nThere are nine novels on the Climate Fiction Prize longlist\u00a0\n\nThis prize will not only celebrate authors who are already writing excellent climate fiction but may encourage more writers to turn their hand to the topic.\u00a0\n\nAs the longlist for the 2024 prize shows - climate fiction fits into all genres and locations:\u00a0\n\nPrivate Rites by Julia Armfield\u00a0\n\nThe \u2018haunting and heart-wrenching\u2019 novel, \u2018Private Rites\u2019 published by Harper Collins and 4th Estate, is set to unsettle readers with its apocalyptic themes.\u00a0\n\nAfter the death of their estranged father, three sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, reconnect and try to navigate their queer love and faith while the world is ending due to constant rain. This is a brutal yet still witty book about emotional abuse, mental health, and honesty.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley\u00a0\n\nFrom debut author Kaliane Bradley and published by Sceptre and Hodder comes \u2018The Ministry of Time\u2019, a novel that is a time travel romance, a spy thriller, and a workplace comedy, according to Good Reads.\u00a0\n\nSet in the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a job by a mysterious new government ministry that gathers \u2018expats\u2019 from history.\u00a0\n\nThe servant\u2019s job is to support a commander in navigating modern life. (This fictitious commander was on the real 1845 doomed expedition to the Arctic led by Sir John Franklin.) The reason why all becomes clear.\n\nAnd So I Roar by Abi Dar\u00e9\u00a0\n\nFrom \u2018New York Times\u2019 bestselling author Abi Dar\u00e9 comes a witty, powerful novel about Adunni, a \u2018plucky\u2019 Lagos-based 14-year-old who has escaped her rural village and made friends with a woman called Tia, who is on her own self-discovery journey.\n\nExcited as she is finally enrolled in school, Adunni is then summoned back to her home village. What\u2019s to come is an adventure to ensure all the young girls of her village can claim the bright futures they deserve.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u2018And So I Roar\u2019 is published by Sceptre and Hodder & Stoughton.\n\nBriefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen\u00a0\n\nWhat do you do when the world is on fire? With her husband away to serve as a medic in a war overseas, Cass is left raising small children in a city that\u2019s been rocked by global catastrophe. The only thing Cass can do is leave to seek out somewhere safer - but not all sanctuaries are what they seem.\u00a0\n\n\u2018Briefly Very Beautiful\u2019 is the debut novel of writer Roz Dineen, published by Bloomsbury Circus.\n\nOrbital by Samantha Harvey\u00a0\n\n\u2018Orbital\u2019, the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, is a space-themed adventure in which six astronauts from around the world are on an International Space Station conducting scientific experiments to test the human body.\u00a0\n\nWhen bad news from home comes, this soon leads the team to observe planet Earth and ask vital questions like never before: \u2018What is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?\u2019\u00a0\n\nPublished by Jonathan Cape, PRH, Harvey\u2019s novel was described as \u2018a slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' by the UK newspaper The Guardian.\n\nThis was the only ever Booker winner novel to be set in outer space - and Harvey is the first woman to have won the Booker Prize in five years.\u00a0\n\nThe Morningside by T\u00e9a Obreht\u00a0\n\nFrom the \u2018New York Times\u2019 bestselling author of \u2018The Tiger's Wife\u2019 and \u2018Inland,\u2019 comes this novel about refugees forced to relocate after environmental disasters.\u00a0\n\nThe novel centres on a mother and daughter who move to Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where the young girl's aunt lives and tells folk tales of her homeland.\u00a0\n\nPublished by W&N and Orion, this is a story that, amid sadness and impoverishment, holds hope and humour.\u00a0\n\nWater Baby by Chioma Okereke\u00a0\n\n\u2018Water Baby\u2019 is a coming-of-age story published by Quercus. Baby, a 19-year-old girl, lives in a floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria.\u00a0\n\nWith few opportunities, she leaps at the chance to broaden the visibility of her community by joining a new drone-mapping project.\u00a0\n\nThis soon propels Baby to the world stage - and she has to ask if life beyond the lagoon is everything she\u2019s dreamed of - or if what she wants has always been right in front of her.\n\nPraiseworthy by Alexis Wright\n\n\u2018Praiseworthy\u2019, published by And Other Stories, has already received numerous awards since it was published in late 2023 and is a satirical book based in a small Aboriginal town.\u00a0\n\nA haze cloud heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors as protagonist Cause Man Steel chases a mad vision: A national \u2018carbon neutral\u2019 transport scheme using feral donkeys that will guarantee his people\u2019s independence. In doing so, however, he desecrates traditional land.\u00a0\n\nThis explosive book packs a punch and is an outraged cry against oppression during the \u2018end of days\u2019.\n\n\u201cWe are as proud as we are hopeful that anyone and everyone might find among these nine titles a book that stays with them long after the reading,\u201d adds Bunting.\n\nThe Climate Fiction Prize is supported by Climate Spring, a global organisation that works with the screen industries to create film and TV content that shifts climate narratives and reaches mainstream audiences.\n\nSo it\u2019s possible that some of these works of fiction could also soon reach the screen.\n\nThe winner will be announced at a ceremony on 19 March 2025.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The longlist for the first ever Climate Fiction Prize has been revealed and all nine books are by women.<\/p>\n<p>The prize will be awarded to a work of fiction that puts the climate crisis front and centre with the head judge saying the competition aims to \u201creach hearts and minds\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list includes the 2024 Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey for her work of climate fiction, \u2018Orbital\u2019. The longlist also features two debut authors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This new literary prize was first announced at the esteemed Hay Festival of Literature & Arts last June and is worth \u00a310,000 (\u20ac12,058).<\/p>\n<h2>Why climate fiction deserves its own literary award<\/h2><p>\u201cMy fellow judges and I are truly delighted with this first ever longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize,\u201d says Madeliene Bunting, the award-winning British writer who is chairing the judging panel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//15//3000-risk-experts-and-20000-citizens-name-climate-change-as-number-one-threat-facing-the-w/">climate crisis<\/strong><\/a> ever more urgent, this globe-spanning list offers a unique collection of narratives, styles and genres, exploring the pre-eminent struggle of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8914652,8905778\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//11//are-solar-farms-destroyed-during-storms-experts-debunk-reports-that-panels-cant-handle-the/">Are solar farms destroyed during storms? Experts debunk the myth that panels can\u2019t handle the wind<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//16//body-heat-could-be-the-next-big-renewable-after-scientists-invent-ultra-thin-tech-to-power/">Body heat could be the next big renewable after scientists invent ultra-thin tech to power wearables<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The judging panel also includes the British nature writer Nicola Chester and the wildlife writer and broadcaster David Lindo, better known as \u2018The Urban Birder\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But it also includes the young climate justice activist Tori Tsui, who published her debut novel about <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//23//feeling-anxious-about-climate-change-after-the-ipcc-report-here-s-what-you-can-do-to-help/">eco-anxiety, \u2018It's Not Just You\u2019 in 2023, and the Hay Festival\u2019s sustainability director, Andy Fryers.<\/p>\n<h2>There are nine novels on the Climate Fiction Prize longlist<\/h2><p>This prize will not only celebrate authors who are already writing excellent climate fiction but may encourage more writers to turn their hand to the topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the longlist for the 2024 prize shows - climate fiction fits into all genres and locations:\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Private Rites by Julia Armfield<\/h3><p>The \u2018haunting and heart-wrenching\u2019 novel, \u2018Private Rites\u2019 published by Harper Collins and 4th Estate, is set to unsettle readers with its apocalyptic themes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the death of their estranged father, three sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, reconnect and try to navigate their queer love and faith while the world is ending due to constant <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//10//why-is-europe-experiencing-such-extremes-in-its-weather-and-what-can-be-done/">rain. This is a brutal yet still witty book about emotional abuse, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//10//23//green-space-in-cities-helps-mitigate-health-effects-of-extreme-heat-study-finds/">mental health<\/strong><\/a>, and honesty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley<\/h3><p>From debut author Kaliane Bradley and published by Sceptre and Hodder comes \u2018The Ministry of Time\u2019, a novel that is a time travel romance, a spy thriller, and a workplace comedy, according to Good Reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Set in the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a job by a mysterious new government ministry that gathers \u2018expats\u2019 from history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The servant\u2019s job is to support a commander in navigating modern life. (This fictitious commander was on the real 1845 doomed expedition to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//04//an-ice-free-arctic-could-happen-by-summer-2027-what-it-means-for-weather-shipping-and-pola/">Arctic led by Sir John Franklin.) The reason why all becomes clear.<\/p>\n<h3>And So I Roar by Abi Dar\u00e9<\/h3><p>From \u2018New York Times\u2019 bestselling author Abi Dar\u00e9 comes a witty, powerful novel about Adunni, a \u2018plucky\u2019 Lagos-based 14-year-old who has escaped her <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//07//we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-polici/">rural village<\/strong><\/a> and made friends with a woman called Tia, who is on her own self-discovery journey.<\/p>\n<p>Excited as she is finally enrolled in school, Adunni is then summoned back to her home village. What\u2019s to come is an adventure to ensure all the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//08//06//girls-are-more-anxious-about-climate-change-than-boys-new-research-reveals/">young girls<\/strong><\/a> of her village can claim the bright futures they deserve.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And So I Roar\u2019 is published by Sceptre and Hodder & Stoughton.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8900266,8888596\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//03//burping-cows-bovaer-and-boycotts-the-anti-methane-additive-thats-taking-social-media-by-st/">Burping cows, Bovaer and boycotts: The anti-methane additive that\u2019s taking social media by storm<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//10//climate-changes-more-than-550-billion-price-tag-is-pushing-up-insurance-costs-report-says/">Climate change's more than \u20ac550 billion price tag is pushing up insurance costs, report says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen<\/h3><p>What do you do when the world is on fire? With her husband away to serve as a medic in a war overseas, Cass is left raising small children in a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//01//amsterdam-london-madrid-europes-biggest-nerve-centres-at-increasing-risk-from-climate-chan/">city that\u2019s been rocked by global <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//24//this-tipping-point-would-be-catastrophic-for-europe-but-scientists-are-unsure-when-well-re#:~:text=By%20Euronews%20Green,-Published%20on%2024&text=AMOC%20collapse%20would%20bring%20severe,have%20been%20%22greatly%20underestimated%22.\"><strong>catastrophe<\/strong><\/a>. The only thing Cass can do is leave to seek out somewhere safer - but not all sanctuaries are what they seem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Briefly Very Beautiful\u2019 is the debut novel of writer Roz Dineen, published by Bloomsbury Circus.<\/p>\n<h3>Orbital by Samantha Harvey<\/h3><p>\u2018Orbital\u2019, the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, is a space-themed adventure in which six astronauts from around the world are on an International Space Station conducting <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//01//29//living-in-a-bubble-did-this-failed-90s-experiment-predict-the-future/">scientific experiments<\/strong><\/a> to test the human body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When bad news from home comes, this soon leads the team to observe planet Earth and ask vital questions like never before: \u2018What is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Published by Jonathan Cape, PRH, Harvey\u2019s novel was described as \u2018a slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' by the UK newspaper The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>This was the only ever Booker winner novel to be set in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//13//scientists-dream-up-a-massive-floating-solar-farm-in-space-heres-how-it-would-work/">outer space<\/strong><\/a> - and Harvey is the first woman to have won the Booker Prize in five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>The Morningside by T\u00e9a Obreht<\/h3><p>From the \u2018New York Times\u2019 bestselling author of \u2018The Tiger's Wife\u2019 and \u2018Inland,\u2019 comes this novel about refugees forced to relocate after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//09//25//climate-change-made-central-europes-deadly-flooding-twice-as-likely-scientists-say/">environmental disasters<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The novel centres on a mother and daughter who move to Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where the young girl's aunt lives and tells folk tales of her homeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Published by W&N and Orion, this is a story that, amid sadness and impoverishment, holds <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.google.com//search?q=euronews+green+hope&sca_esv=d4a5450862dcd9df&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB1012GB1012&ei=yklgZ-k9i4WFsg_hrtC4Cw&ved=0ahUKEwjpyrrvz6yKAxWLQkEAHWEXFLcQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=euronews+green+hope&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiE2V1cm9uZXdzIGdyZWVuIGhvcGUyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEdItwVQsARYsARwAXgBkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIBoAICmAMAiAYBkAYIkgcBMaAHAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp\%22>hope<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//10//the-planet-is-burning-and-youre-laughing-meet-the-comedians-helping-people-process-climate/">humour./u00a0/n
Water Baby by Chioma Okereke<\/h3><p>\u2018Water Baby\u2019 is a coming-of-age story published by Quercus. Baby, a 19-year-old girl, lives in a floating <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//08//28//us-kenya-environment-trees/">slum off mainland Lagos, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//31//i-want-to-tackle-it-in-a-big-way-meet-the-nigerian-women-spearheading-solar-projects/">Nigeria./u00a0/n
With few opportunities, she leaps at the chance to broaden the visibility of her community by joining a new drone-mapping project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This soon propels Baby to the world stage - and she has to ask if life beyond the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//02//protecting-europes-waterways-the-polluted-spanish-lagoon-thats-fighting-back-in-court/">lagoon is everything she\u2019s dreamed of - or if what she wants has always been right in front of her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8836186,8902704\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//11//mission-rewilding-scotland-and-wales-are-trailblazing-europes-nature-restoration/">Mission rewilding: Scotland and Wales are trailblazing Europe\u2019s nature restoration<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//06//beacon-of-hope-the-earthshot-prize-winners-2024-revealed-in-star-studded-cape-town-ceremon/">/u2018Beacon of hope\u2019: The Earthshot Prize winners 2024 revealed in star-studded Cape Town ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright<\/h3><p>\u2018Praiseworthy\u2019, published by And Other Stories, has already received numerous awards since it was published in late 2023 and is a satirical book based in a small <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//06//what-can-we-learn-from-indigenous-communities-about-safeguarding-the-environment/">Aboriginal town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A haze cloud heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors as protagonist Cause Man Steel chases a mad vision: A national <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//20//problem-child-transport-on-track-to-produce-nearly-half-of-europes-emissions-by-2030/">/u2018carbon neutral\u2019 transport<\/strong><\/a> scheme using feral <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//16//street-cleaning-donkeys-in-turkey-listen-to-beethoven-while-they-work/">donkeys that will guarantee his people\u2019s independence. In doing so, however, he desecrates traditional land.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This explosive <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//01//dont-look-away-this-book-is-a-wake-up-call-to-our-monstrous-waste-crisis-and-how-to-solve-/">book packs a punch and is an outraged cry against oppression during the \u2018end of days\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are as proud as we are hopeful that anyone and everyone might find among these nine titles a book that stays with them long after the reading,\u201d adds Bunting.<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Fiction Prize is supported by Climate Spring, a global organisation that works with the screen industries to create <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//11//06//european-filmmakers-go-green-behind-the-scenes#:~:text=The%20European%20Green%20Screen%20project,in%20several%20of%20these%20countries.\"><strong>film<\/strong><\/a> and TV content that shifts climate narratives and reaches mainstream audiences.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s possible that some of these works of fiction could also soon reach the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 19 March 2025.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734362893,"updatedAt":1734364743,"publishedAt":1734364733,"firstPublishedAt":1734364733,"lastPublishedAt":1734364733,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/47\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d5cb4b53-f380-5574-b2d8-4e9aa046a1a6-8914780.jpg","altText":"A woman reads a climate book","caption":"A woman reads a climate book","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva\/mediaphotos","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3244,"urlSafeValue":"marsden","title":"Jen Marsden","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":15386,"slug":"climate-change","urlSafeValue":"climate-change","title":"climate 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shares","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Canal+ shares see drop on London trading debut after split from Vivendi","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Canal+ shares drop on London trading debut after split from Vivendi","titleListing2":"Canal+ shares drop on London trading debut after split from Vivendi","leadin":"An initial decline was to be expected, said analysts, as certain investment funds were restricted to French-listed stocks.","summary":"An initial decline was to be expected, said analysts, as certain investment funds were restricted to French-listed stocks.","keySentence":"","url":"canal-shares-see-drop-on-london-trading-debut-after-split-from-vivendi","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/12\/16\/canal-shares-see-drop-on-london-trading-debut-after-split-from-vivendi","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The French media company Canal+ saw its share price drop by more than 20% on Monday as the firm made its debut on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nFrom an opening price of 290p, shares had fallen to 221p at around 13h30 GMT - before creeping upwards again to around 234p in the afternoon.\n\nCanal+ is one of three businesses splitting off from parent company Vivendi, owned by French billionaire Vincent Bollor\u00e9.\n\nSmaller breakaways Havas and Louis Hachette, listed in Amsterdam and Paris respectively, showed gains on Monday.\n\nHavas is an advertising firm while Louis Hachette is a publisher.\n\nThe listings feed into a long-term plan by Vivendi to boost the worth of the subsidiaries, which it argues have been undervalued as part of the larger group.\n\nVivendi won't retain stakes in either Canal+, Havas, or Louis Hachette, although Bollor\u00e9 Group, which owns almost a third of Vivendi, will hold a 30.6% stake in each.\n\nVolatility expected\n\nAnalysts claim that Canal+'s initial drop is not unusual and that its valuation should improve over time.\n\n\"Volatility was expected as certain investment funds which held Vivendi may be restricted to French-listed stocks and so they are forced sellers of Canal+,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.\n\nHe added: \"It's common for demerged stocks to experience share price wobbles in the first few days as a standalone listed company as investors who inherited the stock decide if they want to stay or go.\"\n\nBefore the listing, JPMorgan analysts estimated Canal+'s worth at around \u20ac6bn. They valued Havas at \u20ac2.5bn and Louis Hachette at around \u20ac2.2bn.\n\nUBS, on the other hand, valued Canal+ at around \u20ac3bn.\n\nLondon's global standing\n\nCanal+ is the largest firm to list in the UK since rules changed in the summer, intending to make the LSE more competitive.\n\nThe stock market is currently on course for its worst year since the global financial crisis.\n\nEighty-eight firms have delisted or transferred their primary listing from London's main market this year, replaced by only 18 incoming companies.\n\nLast Friday, CEO of Canal+ Maxime Saada and finance chief Amandine Ferr\u00e9 met UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves to discuss the attractiveness of the LSE.\n\n\"I'm delighted that Canal+ has chosen the UK. Their decision is a vote of confidence in the UK's capital markets, the stability we are delivering and our plan for change,\" said Reeves.\n\nSaada told the FT last month that Canal+ was listing in London due to the large pool of international investors on offer, as well as the UK's strong position in the media industry.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The French media company Canal+ saw its share price drop by more than 20% on Monday as the firm made its debut on the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>From an opening price of 290p, shares had fallen to 221p at around 13h30 GMT - before creeping upwards again to around 234p in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Canal+ is one of three businesses splitting off from parent company Vivendi, owned by French billionaire Vincent Bollor\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller breakaways Havas and Louis Hachette, listed in Amsterdam and Paris respectively, showed gains on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Havas is an advertising firm while Louis Hachette is a publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The listings feed into a long-term plan by Vivendi to boost the worth of the subsidiaries, which it argues have been undervalued as part of the larger group.<\/p>\n<p>Vivendi won't retain stakes in either Canal+, Havas, or Louis Hachette, although Bollor\u00e9 Group, which owns almost a third of Vivendi, will hold a 30.6% stake in each.<\/p>\n<h2>Volatility expected<\/h2><p>Analysts claim that Canal+'s initial drop is not unusual and that its valuation should improve over time.<\/p>\n<p>\"Volatility was expected as certain investment funds which held Vivendi may be restricted to French-listed stocks and so they are forced sellers of Canal+,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \"It's common for demerged stocks to experience share price wobbles in the first few days as a standalone listed company as investors who inherited the stock decide if they want to stay or go.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8894354,8571774\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//06//frances-canal-set-to-cancel-terrestrial-tv-offerings-ahead-of-london-ipo/">France's Canal+ set to cancel terrestrial TV offerings ahead of London IPO<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//07//12//vivendi-reportedly-considering-london-listing-for-canal-channel/">Vivendi reportedly considering London listing for Canal+ channel<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Before the listing, JPMorgan analysts estimated Canal+'s worth at around \u20ac6bn. They valued Havas at \u20ac2.5bn and Louis Hachette at around \u20ac2.2bn.<\/p>\n<p>UBS, on the other hand, valued Canal+ at around \u20ac3bn.<\/p>\n<h2>London's global standing<\/h2><p>Canal+ is the largest firm to list in the UK since rules changed in the summer, intending to make the LSE more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>The stock market is currently on course for its worst year since the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-eight firms have delisted or transferred their primary listing from London's main market this year, replaced by only 18 incoming companies.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, CEO of Canal+ Maxime Saada and finance chief Amandine Ferr\u00e9 met UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves to discuss the attractiveness of the LSE.<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm delighted that Canal+ has chosen the UK. Their decision is a vote of confidence in the UK's capital markets, the stability we are delivering and our plan for change,\" said Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>Saada told the FT last month that Canal+ was listing in London due to the large pool of international investors on offer, as well as the UK's strong position in the media industry.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734360451,"updatedAt":1734367705,"publishedAt":1734362272,"firstPublishedAt":1734362272,"lastPublishedAt":1734367705,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Thibault Camus\/AP","altText":"Vivendi Chairman Vincent Bollore attends a hearing of a parliamentary inquiry commission at the National Assembly in Paris. 13 March 2024.","callToActionText":null,"width":6000,"caption":"Vivendi Chairman Vincent Bollore attends a hearing of a parliamentary inquiry commission at the National Assembly in Paris. 13 March 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MUSEUM","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"How many artefacts in the British Museum are actually British?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"How many artefacts in the British Museum are actually British?","titleListing2":"How many artefacts in the British Museum are actually British?","leadin":"It's often claimed online that the British Museum in London would have nothing left to show if it returned every artefact that the UK allegedly stole from other countries, but there's more to the claim than meets the eye.","summary":"It's often claimed online that the British Museum in London would have nothing left to show if it returned every artefact that the UK allegedly stole from other countries, but there's more to the claim than meets the eye.","keySentence":"","url":"how-many-artefacts-in-british-museum-are-actually-british","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/16\/how-many-artefacts-in-british-museum-are-actually-british","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A recent meeting between the British and Greek prime ministers has once again revived a long-running debate about whether the UK should return the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, to Athens.\n\nFollowing the meeting between Keir Starmer and Kyriakos Mitsotakis earlier this month, reports emerged that the Greek government believes its British counterpart will no longer block the return of the ancient sculptures.\n\nHowever, Downing Street has reiterated that its stance on returning the artefacts remains unchanged, stating that the decision is for the British Museum, where they are currently housed. The government also said that it has no intention of altering the law to allow their permanent removal.\n\nThe sculptures are a collection of marble decorations from the Temple of Athena, or the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens, dating back as early as 447 BC.\n\nIn the early 1800s, Lord Elgin, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, claimed he obtained permission from local authorities to remove about half of the remaining sculptures from the Parthenon, citing concern for their preservation.\n\nThey were eventually transferred to the British Museum and have since been a significant point of contention between the UK and Greece.\n\nSome claim that Lord Elgin was an honest Philhellene trying to save the sculptures from deterioration and destruction, while others allege that the Scottish nobleman was a greedy aristocrat who stole the marbles from their rightful homeland, a symptom of Britain's wider colonial ambitions at the time.\n\nThe debate often prompts a wider discussion as to whether and what exactly the UK should return to their countries of origin, as well as claims that there'd be nothing left in the British Museum if it returned everything that the UK allegedly stole.\n\nHowever, the claim is hyperbolic because the vast majority of the items in the museum originate from the UK.\n\nMost items come from England\n\nConducting a search of country tags on the British Museum's online catalogue shows that more than 650,000 artefacts come from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, with by far the biggest bulk coming from England.\n\nIn fact, England is the single biggest contributor of items to the British Museum among countries in Europe and worldwide. It has around four times as much as the next most prevalent countries, including Iraq and Italy.\n\nSome 66,000 artefacts come from Greece, according to the online database.\n\nThe British Museum said that even with more than 2 million records, it has only catalogued about half of its collection online and that roughly 80,000 objects are on public display at the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London at any one time.\n\n\"In many cases, the most recent research has not yet been added,\" the museum said. \"There will be mistakes and omissions, but the Museum chooses to publish the data, rather than hold it until it is 'finished', as there will always be new information about an object. Only personal and sensitive information has been withheld.\"\n\nIt's worth pointing out that \"artefacts\" can refer to anything from photos, banknotes and small pieces of pottery to larger, more grandiose sculptures and jewellery, and that the way the British Museum acquired them varies too.\n\nMuseum's biggest pieces are from elsewhere\n\nIndeed, while England is the biggest contributor to the museum by volume, it's true that the museum's most remarkable pieces are the most controversial and tend to have originated from overseas.\n\nSome of the museum's standout exhibits include statues from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (from modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the Bust of Rameses the Great (Egypt) and the Rosetta Stone (Egypt) \u2014 the famous slab engraved with a decree in two languages and three scripts.\n\nThe decree is written in hieroglyphs, the Egyptian Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The discovery of the stone was so groundbreaking because the different scripts and languages helped scholars decipher the meaning of hieroglyphs.\n\nIt's believed that the Rosetta Stone was found in the late 1700s, during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt. French soldiers discovered the slab by accident while digging and it was later handed over to the British under the Treaty of Alexandria in 1801 following Napoleon's defeat.\n\nEgyptian campaigners have demanded its return, saying that the British Museum's holding of the stone is a symbol of \"Western cultural violence against Egypt\".\n\nElsewhere in Africa, Nigeria has requested the return of the Benin Bronzes, a group of sculptures including commemorative heads, items of royal regalia, and personal ornaments.\n\nThey date as far back as the 16th century and were taken from Benin City after British forces invaded in 1897.\n\nNigerian officials have alleged that the artefacts \"are the subject of loot\" and that, regardless of their safety in the British Museum, they should be returned to \"the communities that they belong to\".\n\nThe British Museum says that it has \"positive relationships\" with the Royal Palace in Benin City and that it remains open to discussions with Nigeria.\n\nEthiopia meanwhile wants the Maqdala Collection back, which includes liturgical objects such as chalices, weapons, jewellery and tabots (consecrated altar tablets).\n\nSome items have already been returned to Ethiopia, but others plundered by British soldiers in 1868 remain in the UK. \n\nThe British Museum says that its long-term ambition relating to the tabots is to \"lend them to an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Great Britain where they can be cared for by the clergy within their traditions\".\n\nThe issue of returning artefacts to their country of origin is not unique to the UK \u2014 museums across Europe have long faced calls to give back many of their own exhibits too, over allegations that they were illegally taken from their ancestral homes during colonial times.\n\nThe British Museum faced further controversy last year when it was discovered that some 2,000 items, including jewellery and semi-precious stones,\u00a0were missing, with some even surfacing on eBay. Hundreds of artefacts have since been tracked down.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A recent meeting between the British and Greek prime ministers has once again revived a long-running debate about whether the UK should return the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, to Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting between Keir Starmer and Kyriakos Mitsotakis earlier this month, reports emerged that the Greek government believes its British counterpart will no longer block the return of the ancient sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>However, Downing Street has reiterated that its stance on returning the artefacts remains unchanged, stating that the decision is for the British Museum, where they are currently housed. The government also said that it has no intention of altering the law to allow their permanent removal.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures are a collection of marble decorations from the Temple of Athena, or the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens, dating back as early as 447 BC.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1800s, Lord Elgin, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, claimed he <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//06//turkish-official-says-no-record-of-legitimate-sale-of-the-parthenon-marbles/">obtained permission<\/strong><\/a> from local authorities to remove about half of the remaining sculptures from the Parthenon, citing concern for their preservation.<\/p>\n<p>They were eventually transferred to the British Museum and have since been a significant point of contention between the UK and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Some claim that Lord Elgin was an honest Philhellene trying to save the sculptures from deterioration and destruction, while others allege that the Scottish nobleman was a greedy aristocrat who stole the marbles from their rightful homeland, a symptom of Britain's wider colonial ambitions at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The debate often prompts a wider discussion as to whether and what exactly the UK should return to their countries of origin, as well as claims that there'd be nothing left in the British Museum if it returned everything that the UK allegedly stole.<\/p>\n<p>However, the claim is hyperbolic because the vast majority of the items in the museum originate from the UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//89//96//72//808x454_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg/" alt=\"Visitors look at sculptures that are part of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/384x216_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/640x360_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/750x422_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/828x466_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/1080x608_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/1200x675_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/96\/72\/1920x1080_cmsv2_11febb2a-3b63-5d8e-8dee-d168b484ea4a-8899672.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Visitors look at sculptures that are part of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Most items come from England<\/h2><p>Conducting a search of country tags on the British Museum's online catalogue shows that more than 650,000 artefacts come from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, with by far the biggest bulk coming from England.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, England is the single biggest contributor of items to the British Museum among countries in Europe and worldwide. It has around four times as much as the next most prevalent countries, including Iraq and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Some 66,000 artefacts come from Greece, according to the online database.<\/p>\n<p>The British Museum said that even with more than 2 million records, it has only catalogued about half of its collection online and that roughly 80,000 objects are on public display at the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London at any one time.<\/p>\n<p>\"In many cases, the most recent research has not yet been added,\" the museum said. \"There will be mistakes and omissions, but the Museum chooses to publish the data, rather than hold it until it is 'finished', as there will always be new information about an object. Only personal and sensitive information has been withheld.\"<\/p>\n<p>It's worth pointing out that \"artefacts\" can refer to anything from photos, banknotes and small pieces of pottery to larger, more grandiose sculptures and jewellery, and that the way the British Museum acquired them varies too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/20810347?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Museum's biggest pieces are from elsewhere<\/h2><p>Indeed, while England is the biggest contributor to the museum by volume, it's true that the museum's most remarkable pieces are the most controversial and tend to have originated from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the museum's standout exhibits include statues from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (from modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the Bust of Rameses the Great (Egypt) and the Rosetta Stone (Egypt) \u2014 the famous slab engraved with a decree in two languages and three scripts.<\/p>\n<p>The decree is written in hieroglyphs, the Egyptian Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The discovery of the stone was so groundbreaking because the different scripts and languages helped scholars decipher the meaning of hieroglyphs.<\/p>\n<p>It's believed that the Rosetta Stone was found in the late 1700s, during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt. French soldiers discovered the slab by accident while digging and it was later handed over to the British under the Treaty of Alexandria in 1801 following Napoleon's defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian campaigners have demanded its return, saying that the British Museum's holding of the stone is a symbol of \"Western cultural violence against Egypt\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7610084,8868444\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//17//ghana-asks-british-museum-to-return-gold-as-repatriation-calls-grow-stronger/">Ghana asks British Museum to return gold as repatriation calls grow stronger<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//22//german-museum-repatriates-ancient-marble-head-to-greece/">German museum repatriates ancient marble head to Greece<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in Africa, Nigeria has requested the return of the Benin Bronzes, a group of sculptures including commemorative heads, items of royal regalia, and personal ornaments.<\/p>\n<p>They date as far back as the 16th century and were taken from Benin City after British forces invaded in 1897.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian officials have alleged that the artefacts \"are the subject of loot\" and that, regardless of their safety in the British Museum, they should be returned to \"the communities that they belong to\".<\/p>\n<p>The British Museum says that it has \"positive relationships\" with the Royal Palace in Benin City and that it remains open to discussions with Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia meanwhile wants the Maqdala Collection back, which includes liturgical objects such as chalices, weapons, jewellery and tabots (consecrated altar tablets).<\/p>\n<p>Some items have already been returned to Ethiopia, but others plundered by British soldiers in 1868 remain in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>The British Museum says that its long-term ambition relating to the tabots is to \"lend them to an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Great Britain where they can be cared for by the clergy within their traditions\".<\/p>\n<p>The issue of returning artefacts to their country of origin is not unique to the UK \u2014 museums across Europe <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//22//german-museum-repatriates-ancient-marble-head-to-greece/">have long faced calls<\/strong><\/a> to give back many of their own exhibits too, over allegations that they were illegally taken from their ancestral homes during colonial times.<\/p>\n<p>The British Museum faced further controversy last year when it was discovered that some 2,000 items, including jewellery and semi-precious stones,\u00a0were missing, with some even surfacing on eBay. Hundreds of artefacts have since been <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//17//british-museum-recovers-268-more-missing-artefacts-following-theft-scandal/">tracked down<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733753130,"updatedAt":1734352983,"publishedAt":1734352345,"firstPublishedAt":1734352345,"lastPublishedAt":1734352983,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Tim Ireland","altText":"Visitors walk outside the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, Friday, June 26, 2015.","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"Visitors walk outside the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, Friday, June 26, 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takeover","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Billionaire K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd's Royal Mail takeover bid gets UK stamp of approval","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Billionaire K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd's Royal Mail takeover bid gets stamp of approval","titleListing2":"Billionaire K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd's Royal Mail takeover bid gets UK stamp of approval","leadin":"Parent company IDS agreed to the takeover in May, although both sides have been awaiting UK government approval.","summary":"Parent company IDS agreed to the takeover in May, although both sides have been awaiting UK government approval.","keySentence":"","url":"billionaire-kretinskys-royal-mail-takeover-bid-gets-uk-stamp-of-approval","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/12\/16\/billionaire-kretinskys-royal-mail-takeover-bid-gets-uk-stamp-of-approval","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The sale of Royal Mail's parent company to Czech billionaire Daniel K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd has been approved by the UK government, the involved firms have announced. \n\nThe \u00a33.6bn (\u20ac4.3bn) takeover of International Distribution Services (IDS) was given the green light after K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd's EP Group agreed to a number of commitments.\n\nSpecifically, the government will retain a \"golden share\". This means that it will be able to block major changes to Royal Mail's ownership, headquarters location and tax residency - if it ever deems it necessary to do so.\n\nOther conditions require that Royal Mail continue the Universal Service Obligation for at least five years, thereby delivering first-class letters six days a week for a fixed price.\n\nEP must also keep Royal Mail headquarters and tax residency in the UK for the next five years, recognise relevant postal-worker unions, and maintain Royal Mail's current ownership for at least three years.\n\nUnions met with EP representatives over the weekend to voice their requests. While agreements were reached in principle, official union backing is still required.\n\n\"EP Group is a long term and committed investor with a mission to make Royal Mail a successful modern postal operator with high quality service and products for its customers,\" said EP chairman Daniel K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd in a statement on Monday\n\n\"We look forward to delivering on this mission alongside our partners in government,\" he added.\n\nK\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd expands UK influence\n\nThe board of IDS agreed to a takeover offer from EP in May, which valued the firm at 370p (446c) a share.\n\nIn August, the government then announced it was reviewing the deal on national security grounds, as Royal Mail is considered to be a vital element of UK infrastructure.\n\nThe takeover means that Royal Mail will be in non-UK hands for the first time in its 508-year-old history.\n\nK\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd, however, is no stranger to British investments.\n\nWhile he has made his mark in energy projects in eastern and central Europe, the tycoon now owns a 10% stake in UK supermarket Sainsbury's - as well as a 27% share in football club West Ham United.\n\nRoyal Mail, which was privatised more than a decade ago and is now in urgent need of investment, will present a new challenge.\n\nEarlier this month, regulator Ofcom fined the service \u00a310.5m (\u20ac12.7m) for failing to meet delivery targets.\n\nThe fine came after a previous Ofcom fine of\u00a0\u00a35.6m (\u20ac6.7m) for the same failure last November.\n\nIn the year to March 2024, Royal Mail delivered only 74.7% of first-class mail and 92.7% of second-class mail within regulatory time limits.\n\nThe service is supposed to deliver 93% of first-class mail within one working day of collection, and 98.5% of second-class mail within three working days of collection.\n\nThe company blamed poor performance on financial troubles.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The sale of Royal Mail's parent company to Czech billionaire Daniel K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd has been approved by the UK government, the involved firms have announced. <\/p>\n<p>The \u00a33.6bn (\u20ac4.3bn) takeover of International Distribution Services (IDS) was given the green light after K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd's EP Group agreed to a number of commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the government will retain a \"golden share\". This means that it will be able to block major changes to Royal Mail's ownership, headquarters location and tax residency - if it ever deems it necessary to do so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8768646,8547944\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//03//royal-mail-stamps-celebrate-60-years-of-british-rock-band-the-who/">Royal Mail stamps celebrate 60 years of British rock band The Who<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//07//03//return-to-sender-royal-mail-hits-back-over-postal-vote-delay/"> Return to sender: Royal Mail hits back over postal vote delay<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Other conditions require that Royal Mail continue the Universal Service Obligation for at least five years, thereby delivering first-class letters six days a week for a fixed price.<\/p>\n<p>EP must also keep Royal Mail headquarters and tax residency in the UK for the next five years, recognise relevant postal-worker unions, and maintain Royal Mail's current ownership for at least three years.<\/p>\n<p>Unions met with EP representatives over the weekend to voice their requests. While agreements were reached in principle, official union backing is still required.<\/p>\n<p>\"EP Group is a long term and committed investor with a mission to make Royal Mail a successful modern postal operator with high quality service and products for its customers,\" said EP chairman Daniel K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd in a statement on Monday<\/p>\n<p>\"We look forward to delivering on this mission alongside our partners in government,\" he added.<\/p>\n<h2>K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd expands UK influence<\/h2><p>The board of IDS agreed to a takeover offer from EP in May, which valued the firm at 370p (446c) a share.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the government then announced it was reviewing the deal on national security grounds, as Royal Mail is considered to be a vital element of UK infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The takeover means that Royal Mail will be in non-UK hands for the first time in its 508-year-old history.<\/p>\n<p>K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd, however, is no stranger to British investments.<\/p>\n<p>While he has made his mark in energy projects in eastern and central Europe, the tycoon now owns a 10% stake in UK supermarket Sainsbury's - as well as a 27% share in football club West Ham United.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7843420,8421140\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//08//24//royal-mail-celebrates-paddington-bears-65th-birthday-with-special-stamps/">Royal Mail celebrates Paddington Bear\u2019s 65th birthday with special stamps<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//05//08//royal-mails-would-be-buyer-looks-to-take-over-french-tech-company/">Royal Mail's would-be buyer looks to take over French tech company<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Royal Mail, which was privatised more than a decade ago and is now in urgent need of investment, will present a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, regulator Ofcom fined the service \u00a310.5m (\u20ac12.7m) for failing to meet delivery targets.<\/p>\n<p>The fine came after a previous Ofcom fine of\u00a0\u00a35.6m (\u20ac6.7m) for the same failure last November.<\/p>\n<p>In the year to March 2024, Royal Mail delivered only 74.7% of first-class mail and 92.7% of second-class mail within regulatory time limits.<\/p>\n<p>The service is supposed to deliver 93% of first-class mail within one working day of collection, and 98.5% of second-class mail within three working days of collection.<\/p>\n<p>The company blamed poor performance on financial troubles.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734347355,"updatedAt":1734350294,"publishedAt":1734350267,"firstPublishedAt":1734350267,"lastPublishedAt":1734350267,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/41\/36\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8b73a993-f8f6-5b6b-bcc8-c968911659d4-8914136.jpg","altText":"Royal Mail vans at London's Mount Pleasant sorting office. 12 September 2013.","caption":"Royal Mail vans at London's Mount Pleasant sorting office. 12 September 2013.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Alastair Grant\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":593}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2734,"urlSafeValue":"butler","title":"Eleanor Butler","twitter":"@eleanorfbutler"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":26552,"slug":"royal-mail","urlSafeValue":"royal-mail","title":"Royal Mail","titleRaw":"Royal 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DRUG TRADEOFFS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Are expensive drugs worth it? Rolling out new medicines may be too costly to other patients' health","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Are new, expensive drugs worth it? Not if you're not a recipient","titleListing2":"Are expensive drugs worth it? Rolling out new medicines may be too costly to other patients' health","leadin":"A new study has found that the approval of new drugs in England has come at a heavy cost to the health of many others due to a loss of funding.","summary":"A new study has found that the approval of new drugs in England has come at a heavy cost to the health of many others due to a loss of funding.","keySentence":"","url":"are-expensive-drugs-worth-it-rolling-out-new-medicines-may-be-too-costly-to-other-patients","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/12\/14\/are-expensive-drugs-worth-it-rolling-out-new-medicines-may-be-too-costly-to-other-patients","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"New medicines can be a lifeline for millions of patients \u2013 but over two decades in England, public spending on them came with significant trade-offs that indicate the money paid for new drugs may be better used on other health services, a new analysis has found.\n\nOnce England\u2019s National Institute for Care and Excellence (NICE) recommends a new drug for patients, the National Health Service (NHS) must pay for it, if it\u2019s prescribed by a doctor.\n\nBut with a limited budget, NHS spending on new drugs means other health services won\u2019t be funded \u2013 and this isn\u2019t always considered when policymakers and health professionals weigh the cost-effectiveness of new medicines, according to the study in the Lancet medical journal.\n\nWith that gap in mind, the researchers from UK and US universities modelled how this trade-off shapes the health of England\u2019s population overall.\n\n\"We know patients are deriving benefits from new drugs, but that comes at a cost to others in society who may have to forego access to services because funding has to be reallocated to paying for drugs rather than anything else,\" Huseyin Naci, an associate professor of health policy at the London School of Economics and the study\u2019s lead author, told Euronews Health.\n\n\"They are the invisible people who are losing out as a result of explicitly prioritising the health benefits we get from drugs\".\n\nPublic spending trade-offs\n\nOther analyses have shown that, on average, it costs about \u00a315,000 (\u20ac18,000) to pay for one year of health, a measure known as quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).\n\nThe researchers used that figure to estimate the number of healthy years that could essentially be bought with the \u00a375.1 billion (\u20ac90.2 billion) the NHS spent on new drugs between 2000 and 2020, if the funding had instead been allocated to other medical services or treatments.\n\nThey found the new drugs earned nearly 3.75 million QALYS for about 19.8 million patients \u2013 but if that funding had been used for other health services, it could have supported 5 million QALYs.\n\nThat\u2019s a net loss of about 1.25 million healthy life years.\n\nThe researchers did not link the sacrificed QALYs to any specific medical care, but rather estimated the aggregate health impact, Naci said.\n\nFor example, in 2010 NICE recommended the drug trastuzumab for patients with later-stage stomach cancer, estimating that about \u00a343,200 (\u20ac51,900) worth of trastuzumab buys one healthy life year.\n\nIn the analysis, that translates to 2.88 healthy years lost elsewhere.\n\nA NICE spokesperson acknowledged that spending money on new medicines does displace funding for other health services, but said that the agency only recommends new treatments that \"offer value-for-money for the taxpayer\".\n\n\"Every pound of the NHS budget can only be spent once,\" the NICE spokesperson said, adding that even if the agency did not recommend the new drugs, they would likely be prescribed for some patients anyway, leading to disparities in access at the local level.\n\nWhich drugs are covered\n\nPart of the challenge is that NICE coverage prioritises patients with more serious unmet health needs who could benefit from new medicines, like those with cancer or undergoing end-of-life care. Often, these drugs are more expensive than other treatments, like hip or knee replacements.\n\nOver the 20-year study period, two-thirds of new drug appraisals were for cancer and immunology treatments, while only 8 per cent were for more common vascular issues like stroke or coronary artery disease.\n\nJust 19 per cent of the 183 NICE-recommended new drugs had generic or biosimilar alternatives which are typically cheaper than name-brand medicines, the study found.\n\nAmitava Banerjee, a professor of clinical data science at University College London, said the findings indicate more should be done to encourage drug development for more common diseases to maximise the health benefits of government spending.\n\nWhen it comes to cancer medicines, policymakers and researchers should \u201clook at the gap between surrogate outcomes such as changes in tumour size on imaging versus long-term impact on reducing mortality and on improving quality of life,\u201d Banerjee said in a statement.\n\nA more holistic view of drug cost-effectiveness\n\nThe findings are particularly salient as health systems in the UK and other European countries debate whether they should pay for new blockbuster anti-obesity drugs that may also help patients manage other health conditions.\n\nHealth officials have been worried about the long-term budget hit of these medicines, which drugmakers have suggested could be taken for life.\n\nThe study authors said that the UK government should consider adjusting how it decides on the cost-effectiveness of new medicines, and could even push to bring down drug costs so they are more in line with other medical services.\n\nHowever, such a move would likely face fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry.\n\nIn the meantime, Naci said NICE should be more transparent about the potential consequences of prioritising new drugs over other treatments.\n\n\"I suspect the committee members within NICE may reach different decisions if they\u2019re presented with that trade-off,\" Naci said.\u00a0\n\n\"We only talk about benefits [of new drugs] as if there are no opportunity costs or unintended consequences of those benefits at the population level\".\n\n","htmlText":"<p>New medicines can be a lifeline for millions of patients \u2013 but over two decades in England, public spending on them came with significant trade-offs that indicate the money paid for new drugs may be better used on other health services, a new analysis has found.<\/p>\n<p>Once England\u2019s National Institute for Care and Excellence (NICE) recommends a new drug for patients, the National Health Service (NHS) must pay for it, if it\u2019s prescribed by a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>But with a limited budget, NHS spending on new drugs means other health services won\u2019t be funded \u2013 and this isn\u2019t always considered when policymakers and health professionals weigh the cost-effectiveness of new medicines, according to the study in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.thelancet.com//journals//lancet//article//PIIS0140-6736(24)02352-3//fulltext/">Lancet medical journal.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With that gap in mind, the researchers from UK and US universities modelled how this trade-off shapes the health of England\u2019s population overall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8778788\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//10//09//cancer-care-is-booming-but-most-of-the-world-isnt-benefiting-analysis-shows/">Cancer care is booming. But most of the world isn\u2019t benefiting, analysis shows<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We know patients are deriving benefits from new drugs, but that comes at a cost to others in society who may have to forego access to services because funding has to be reallocated to paying for drugs rather than anything else,\" Huseyin Naci, an associate professor of health policy at the London School of Economics and the study\u2019s lead author, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n<p>\"They are the invisible people who are losing out as a result of explicitly prioritising the health benefits we get from drugs\".<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Public spending trade-offs<\/strong><\/h2><p>Other analyses have shown that, on average, it costs about \u00a315,000 (\u20ac18,000) to pay for one year of health, a measure known as quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used that figure to estimate the number of healthy years that could essentially be bought with the \u00a375.1 billion (\u20ac90.2 billion) the NHS spent on new drugs between 2000 and 2020, if the funding had instead been allocated to other medical services or treatments.<\/p>\n<p>They found the new drugs earned nearly 3.75 million QALYS for about 19.8 million patients \u2013 but if that funding had been used for other health services, it could have supported 5 million QALYs.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a net loss of about 1.25 million healthy life years.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers did not link the sacrificed QALYs to any specific medical care, but rather estimated the aggregate health impact, Naci said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8793848\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//10//16//surging-drug-costs-straining-european-national-budgets-health-insurers-warn/">Surging drug costs straining European national budgets, health insurers warn<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For example, in 2010 NICE recommended the drug trastuzumab for patients with later-stage stomach cancer, estimating that about \u00a343,200 (\u20ac51,900) worth of trastuzumab buys one healthy life year.<\/p>\n<p>In the analysis, that translates to 2.88 healthy years lost elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>A NICE spokesperson acknowledged that spending money on new medicines does displace funding for other health services, but said that the agency only recommends new treatments that \"offer value-for-money for the taxpayer\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Every pound of the NHS budget can only be spent once,\" the NICE spokesperson said, adding that even if the agency did not recommend the new drugs, they would likely be prescribed for some patients anyway, leading to disparities in access at the local level.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Which drugs are covered<\/strong><\/h2><p>Part of the challenge is that NICE coverage prioritises patients with more serious unmet health needs who could benefit from new medicines, like those with cancer or undergoing end-of-life care. Often, these drugs are more expensive than other treatments, like hip or knee replacements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8860798\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//20//italy-spent-over-1-billion-on-dozens-of-drugs-to-avoid-in-2022/">Italy spent over \u20ac1 billion on dozens of \u2018drugs to avoid\u2019 in 2022<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Over the 20-year study period, two-thirds of new drug appraisals were for cancer and immunology treatments, while only 8 per cent were for more common vascular issues like stroke or coronary artery disease.<\/p>\n<p>Just 19 per cent of the 183 NICE-recommended new drugs had generic or biosimilar alternatives which are typically cheaper than name-brand medicines, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Amitava Banerjee, a professor of clinical data science at University College London, said the findings indicate more should be done to encourage drug development for more common diseases to maximise the health benefits of government spending.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to cancer medicines, policymakers and researchers should \u201clook at the gap between surrogate outcomes such as changes in tumour size on imaging versus long-term impact on reducing mortality and on improving quality of life,\u201d Banerjee said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A more holistic view of drug cost-effectiveness<\/strong><\/h2><p>The findings are particularly salient as health systems <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//12//05//england-to-roll-out-anti-obesity-drug-mounjaro-but-access-will-be-limited-to-high-need-pat/">in the UK<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//10//11//france-wont-pay-for-weight-loss-drug-wegovy-what-about-other-european-countries/">other European countries<\/strong><\/a> debate whether they should pay for new blockbuster anti-obesity drugs that may also help patients manage <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//26//weight-loss-drugs-could-help-fight-chronic-kidney-disease-study-finds/">other health conditions.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health officials have been worried about the long-term budget hit of these medicines, which drugmakers have suggested could be taken for life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8027824\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//11//10//which-countries-in-europe-are-the-worlds-top-spenders-on-healthcare/">Which countries in Europe are the world's top spenders on healthcare?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The study authors said that the UK government should consider adjusting how it decides on the cost-effectiveness of new medicines, and could even push to bring down drug costs so they are more in line with other medical services.<\/p>\n<p>However, such a move would likely face fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Naci said NICE should be more transparent about the potential consequences of prioritising new drugs over other treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\"I suspect the committee members within NICE may reach different decisions if they\u2019re presented with that trade-off,\" Naci said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"We only talk about benefits [of new drugs] as if there are no opportunity costs or unintended consequences of those benefits at the population level\".<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734080987,"updatedAt":1734180853,"publishedAt":1734180851,"firstPublishedAt":1734180851,"lastPublishedAt":1734180851,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/96\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_97ecb30e-627f-5a9f-ab93-5c46647c2148-8909632.jpg","altText":"The cost of new drugs means less healthcare funding is available for other treatments.","caption":"The cost of new drugs means less healthcare funding is available for other treatments.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3108,"urlSafeValue":"galvin","title":"Gabriela Galvin","twitter":"@mg_galvin"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":20234,"slug":"drug-industry","urlSafeValue":"drug-industry","title":"drug industry","titleRaw":"drug 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everything but it\u2019s not the other way around\u201d AR Rahman on his appointment as honorary president at Trinity Laban","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'India accepts everything... not the other way around' AR Rahman on Trinity Laban honour","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Oscar winning composer AR Rahman honoured by UK arts conservatory","titleListing2":"'India accepts everything but it\u2019s not the other way around' A R Rahman on his appointment as honorary president at Trinity Laban","leadin":"The legendary Indian composer A R Rahman, also known as ARR, talks to Euronews Culture about the differences between Western and Eastern music, spirituality and education.","summary":"The legendary Indian composer A R Rahman, also known as ARR, talks to Euronews Culture about the differences between Western and Eastern music, spirituality and education.","keySentence":"","url":"india-accepts-everything-not-the-other-way-around-ar-rahman-on-trinity-laban-honour","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/13\/india-accepts-everything-not-the-other-way-around-ar-rahman-on-trinity-laban-honour","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Despite an increasingly global media culture, most of the music we hear conforms to the traditions of our respective continents. Over the past three decades, one of the most successful musicians at bridging the gap between Western and Eastern musical styles has been the Indian composer A R Rahman, aka ARR, or Allah Rakha Rahman.\n\nRahman is best known for his cinematic soundtracks. He conquered Kollywood early with his debut soundtrack for the 1996 Tamil film Roja, before taking on Bollywood and then Hollywood winning two Oscars for his work on Slumdog Millionaire and more nominations for 127 Hours. \n\nAlongside the more than 145 films he\u2019s soundtracked, Rahman has worked on musicals, original compositions, and performed with the Mick Jagger-fronted supergroup SuperHeavy. \n\nSpeaking to Euronews Culture on how he approaches composing for such a broad array of audiences, the key factor always comes down to melody. \u201cMelody is king,\u201d Rahman says. \u201cYou can do crazy orchestration and everything, but if you don\u2019t have anything to remember, I think it\u2019s useless.\u201d \n\nBut not all melodies work with all audiences. While Europeans are used to music formed around the strict theoretical lines of linear scales, for example, Indian audiences will be more attuned to the complexities of seven changeable swaras in Indian raga. \n\n\u201cIndia accepts everything but it\u2019s not the other way around,\u201d Rahman says. He explains by singing a range of melodies that a Western audience would find complex, describing through terms like microtones. \n\n\u201cTuning for Western songs is easier than for an Indian one. We have such complex ragas,\u201d he says. \u201cThese are certain bandishes that every Hindustani student learns.\u201d \n\nIn such a varied career, bringing cultures together has been one of the main throughlines. His appointment as the Honorary President of Trinity Laban, the London-based conservatoire for contemporary dance, music and musical theatre brings his career full circle. After training under Indian composers, he came to London aged 13 on a classical music scholarship to the Trinity College of Music. \n\nTrinity Laban\u2019s alumni range from the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti through to contemporary jazz stars Ezra Collective and Tom Misch. Previous honorary presidents include conductor Sir Charles Mackerras and violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin. \u201cWe strive to lead the arts beyond convention, to make change and to break expectations,\u201d artistic director Aleksander Szram said on Rahman\u2019s appointment. \u201cOur new President is the living embodiment of that vision.\u201d \n\nIt\u2019s a similar vision to the one Rahman holds for himself. Even on Roja, his first film score, \u201cit broke with all the traditions. I was already so bored of what was traditionally expected of a movie.\u201d \n\n\u201cThe world needs reinvention,\u201d Rahman says. Just as he feels strongly about the value of educating individuals as broadly as possible, Rahman also believes in educating the greatest number of people. \n\nMusic for the masses \n\nHe founded the KM Music Conservatory in his home town to provide musical and career training for aspiring musicians. As part of KM, he also founded the Sunshine Orchestra which provides free musical training to socially and economically disadvantaged children. \n\n\u201cWhen I started KM, I felt like if the rich kids wanted to master violin for 12 years, they could because they can always find a job, money and everything,\u201d Rahman reflects. For those in other castes of India, social barriers get in the way of that kind of career. \n\nOnce you\u2019re in that orchestra though, no one cares who you are, Rahman believes. \u201cWhen you hear a sound, you don\u2019t judge who\u2019s playing it, right?\u201d From this thought, the KM school came about and so has his continued drive. \u201cYou might feel like I\u2019ve done it all,\u201d he says, casually referencing his Oscars, Grammys and National Awards, \u201cbut I want the fire to burn and the only way to burn that fire is by having a purpose in life.\u201d \n\nBurning that fire comes as both an educator and a musician comes from his deep spiritual belief in the power of music. \u201cCertain religions say music is forbidden,\u201d Rahman says, questioning how the search for meaning in life, people often are held back from the truth by veils of understanding. \u201cMy ultimate quest is to see how many veils you can remove to find the truth within you.\u201d \n\nWhether inspiration comes from a street busker on a flute, a grand symphony, or an azan at the mosque, Rahman believes that the \u201csearch to purity within yourself, to see the truth, could be through music leading you to something.\u201d For Rahman, whenever he\u2019s stuck he always looks to the poetry of Sufi philosopher Baba Bulleh Shah. He takes his poems and removes the lyrics to find the tune underneath. \u201cThere's something about those lyrics, the power those lyrics have, that elevates the whole value of that tune,\u201d he says. \n\nAt 57 years old, Rahman has no intention of slowing down. Alongside his appointment at the Trinity Laban, he is currently planning to form a new theatre in Chennai, develop the virtual metal band Secret Mountain, develop Slumdog Millionaire for the stage, and direct his own films. It\u2019s an exciting time for the musician. \u201cThe best is yet to come.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Despite an increasingly global media culture, most of the music we hear conforms to the traditions of our respective continents. Over the past three decades, one of the most successful musicians at bridging the gap between Western and Eastern musical styles has been the Indian composer A R Rahman, aka ARR, or Allah Rakha Rahman.<\/p>\n<p>Rahman is best known for his cinematic soundtracks. He conquered Kollywood early with his debut soundtrack for the 1996 Tamil film <em>Roja<\/em>, before taking on Bollywood and then Hollywood winning two Oscars for his work on <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em> and more nominations for <em>127 Hours<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside the more than 145 films he\u2019s soundtracked, Rahman has worked on musicals, original compositions, and performed with the Mick Jagger-fronted supergroup SuperHeavy. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8909444,8907782\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//13//kate-bush-joins-campaign-against-ai-being-used-without-artists-permission/">Kate Bush joins campaign against AI being used without artists\u2019 permission<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//13//filth-romance-and-grace-here-are-the-best-albums-of-2024/">Filth, Romance and Grace: Here are the Best Albums of 2024 <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Speaking to <em>Euronews Culture<\/em> on how he approaches composing for such a broad array of audiences, the key factor always comes down to melody. \u201cMelody is king,\u201d Rahman says. \u201cYou can do crazy orchestration and everything, but if you don\u2019t have anything to remember, I think it\u2019s useless.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But not all melodies work with all audiences. While Europeans are used to music formed around the strict theoretical lines of linear scales, for example, Indian audiences will be more attuned to the complexities of seven changeable swaras in Indian raga. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia accepts everything but it\u2019s not the other way around,\u201d Rahman says. He explains by singing a range of melodies that a Western audience would find complex, describing through terms like microtones. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTuning for Western songs is easier than for an Indian one. We have such complex ragas,\u201d he says. \u201cThese are certain bandishes that every Hindustani student learns.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.25\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//90//98//88//808x1010_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg/" alt=\"AR Rahman at the Trinity Laban ceremony\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/384x480_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/640x800_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/750x938_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/828x1035_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/1080x1350_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/1200x1500_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/1920x2400_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">AR Rahman at the Trinity Laban ceremony<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">\u00a9 Mariana Pires \/ Mariana Pires <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In such a varied career, bringing cultures together has been one of the main throughlines. His appointment as the Honorary President of Trinity Laban, the London-based conservatoire for contemporary dance, music and musical theatre brings his career full circle. After training under Indian composers, he came to London aged 13 on a classical music scholarship to the Trinity College of Music. <\/p>\n<p>Trinity Laban\u2019s alumni range from the Afrobeat pioneer <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//09//04//culture-re-view-the-day-afrobeat-legend-and-political-activist-fela-kuti-was-arrested/">Fela Kuti<\/strong><\/a> through to contemporary jazz stars <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//09//27//ezra-collectives-dance-no-ones-watching-euronews-cultures-verdict/">Ezra Collective<\/strong><\/a> and Tom Misch. Previous honorary presidents include conductor Sir Charles Mackerras and violinist <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2013//07//04//music-and-beauty-in-tuscany-a-winning-duo/">Sir Yehudi Menuhin<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cWe strive to lead the arts beyond convention, to make change and to break expectations,\u201d artistic director Aleksander Szram said on Rahman\u2019s appointment. \u201cOur new President is the living embodiment of that vision.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a similar vision to the one Rahman holds for himself. Even on <em>Roja<\/em>, his first film score, \u201cit broke with all the traditions. I was already so bored of what was traditionally expected of a movie.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world needs reinvention,\u201d Rahman says. Just as he feels strongly about the value of educating individuals as broadly as possible, Rahman also believes in educating the greatest number of people. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//90//98//88//808x539_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg/" alt=\"King Charles Court in Trinity Laban\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/640x427_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/1920x1280_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">King Charles Court in Trinity Laban<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Trinity Laban<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Music for the masses<\/h2><p>He founded the KM Music Conservatory in his home town to provide musical and career training for aspiring musicians. As part of KM, he also founded the Sunshine Orchestra which provides free musical training to socially and economically disadvantaged children. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started KM, I felt like if the rich kids wanted to master violin for 12 years, they could because they can always find a job, money and everything,\u201d Rahman reflects. For those in other castes of India, social barriers get in the way of that kind of career. <\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019re in that orchestra though, no one cares who you are, Rahman believes. \u201cWhen you hear a sound, you don\u2019t judge who\u2019s playing it, right?\u201d From this thought, the KM school came about and so has his continued drive. \u201cYou might feel like I\u2019ve done it all,\u201d he says, casually referencing his Oscars, Grammys and National Awards, \u201cbut I want the fire to burn and the only way to burn that fire is by having a purpose in life.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7107582,6927606\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//08//10//remaking-classics-hollywood-horror-and-bollywood-to-the-rescue/">Remaking classics: Hollywood horror and Bollywood to the rescue <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//10//11//indias-bollywood-facing-its-biggest-ever-crisis/">India's Bollywood facing its biggest-ever crisis<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Burning that fire comes as both an educator and a musician comes from his deep spiritual belief in the power of music. \u201cCertain religions say music is forbidden,\u201d Rahman says, questioning how the search for meaning in life, people often are held back from the truth by veils of understanding. \u201cMy ultimate quest is to see how many veils you can remove to find the truth within you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Whether inspiration comes from a street busker on a flute, a grand symphony, or an azan at the mosque, Rahman believes that the \u201csearch to purity within yourself, to see the truth, could be through music leading you to something.\u201d For Rahman, whenever he\u2019s stuck he always looks to the poetry of Sufi philosopher Baba Bulleh Shah. He takes his poems and removes the lyrics to find the tune underneath. \u201cThere's something about those lyrics, the power those lyrics have, that elevates the whole value of that tune,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n<p>At 57 years old, Rahman has no intention of slowing down. Alongside his appointment at the Trinity Laban, he is currently planning to form a new theatre in Chennai, develop the virtual metal band Secret Mountain, develop <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em> for the stage, and direct his own films. It\u2019s an exciting time for the musician. \u201cThe best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734086480,"updatedAt":1734097257,"publishedAt":1734097249,"firstPublishedAt":1734097249,"lastPublishedAt":1734097249,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d3211a00-57db-59f4-a6e7-133f4b2fda99-8909888.jpg","altText":"AR Rahman","caption":"AR Rahman","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mariana Pires ","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_06c031e6-31c3-5a15-b63d-ee9690688d0f-8909888.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2400,"height":3000},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/98\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_be133f31-b7ef-529b-9206-77ae9a36091d-8909888.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1500,"height":1000}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2272,"urlSafeValue":"walfisz","title":"Jonny Walfisz","twitter":"@JonathanWalfisz"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7800,"slug":"united-kingdom","urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","titleRaw":"United Kingdom"},{"id":148,"slug":"india","urlSafeValue":"india","title":"India","titleRaw":"India"},{"id":11646,"slug":"music","urlSafeValue":"music","title":"Music","titleRaw":"Music"},{"id":9459,"slug":"classical-music","urlSafeValue":"classical-music","title":"Classical music","titleRaw":"Classical music"},{"id":378,"slug":"religion","urlSafeValue":"religion","title":"Religion","titleRaw":"Religion"},{"id":4349,"slug":"philosophy","urlSafeValue":"philosophy","title":"Philosophy","titleRaw":"Philosophy"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":2},{"slug":"related","count":2}],"related":[{"id":2688962},{"id":2625914},{"id":2682340}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news\/culture-news"},"vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/culture\/culture-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":291,"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","url":"\/news\/europe\/united-kingdom"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/culture\/2024\/12\/13\/india-accepts-everything-not-the-other-way-around-ar-rahman-on-trinity-laban-honour","lastModified":1734097249},{"id":2702438,"cid":8910058,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241213_E3SU_57268877","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"UK POLITICS SANDWICH","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'Not real food' or a 'great British institution'? UK political leaders spar over sandwiches","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"'Not real food'? UK political leaders spar over sandwiches ","titleListing2":"'Not real food' or a 'great British institution'? UK political leaders spar over sandwiches","leadin":"Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's criticism of the sandwich sparked a retort from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and fierce debate in Britain.","summary":"Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's criticism of the sandwich sparked a retort from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and fierce debate in Britain.","keySentence":"","url":"not-real-food-or-a-great-british-institution-uk-political-leaders-spar-over-sandwiches","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/13\/not-real-food-or-a-great-british-institution-uk-political-leaders-spar-over-sandwiches","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The UK's political leaders have traded barbs again, not over immigration, the economy or multiple crises overseas \u2014 but Britain's much-loved lunchtime staple: the sandwich. \n\nThe row, of sorts, started on Thursday after the new Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch declared that she was \"not a sandwich person\" in an interview. \n\n\"Lunch is for wimps,\" Badenoch told the Spectator magazine. \"I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time.\"\n\n\"Sometimes I will get a steak,\" she added. \"I don\u2019t think sandwiches are a real food, it\u2019s what you have for breakfast.\"\n\nPrime Minister Keir Starmer, who is juggling issues from housing and taxation to the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU, expressed his surprise at Badenoch's comments and came to the defence of sandwiches.\n\n\"It's a great British institution, I believe it brings in \u00a38 billion (\u20ac9.6 billion) to the UK economy,\" said a spokesperson for Starmer. \"I think the prime minister is quite happy with a sandwich lunch,\" he said, adding that this could be a tuna or cheese offering.\n\nLater on Thursday, Badenoch posted on X: \"The PM has time to respond to my jokes about lunch \u2026 but no time for the farmers who produce our food.\" Thousands of British farmers protested in Westminster last month over a controversial inheritance tax plan they say will destroy family farms. \n\nStarmer has endured a testing first six months as prime minister, having faced criticism over accepting donations and gifts such as Taylor Swift and Arsenal FC tickets and unpopular tax increases announced in a recent budget. \n\nHis approval ratings are low \u2014 Ipsos last month recorded a net favourability rating of minus 29 while YouGov put him at minus 33 \u2014 yet are still higher than those of his PM predecessors Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss (both Conservatives) while they were in office.\n\nStarmer's support for sandwiches was shrewd, judging by the reactions on social media and debate on British television channels and radio stations.\n\nJim Winship, director of the British Sandwich & Food To Go Association, dismissed Badenoch's disdain for sandwiches as \"rubbish\" during a BBC radio discussion.\n\n\"We eat 3.5 billion commercially made sandwiches every year. This is part of our heritage,\" Winship said. \n\nThis is hardly the first time that sandwiches have been at the forefront of British politics.\n\nIn 2014, the then-Labour Party Ed Miliband was ridiculed after an ungainly attempt to eat a bacon sandwich was captured on camera. The following year, the Sun newspaper ran the photo of Miliband the day before the UK's 2015 general election. Miliband lost.\n\nMiliband, who is now the UK's energy secretary, joked in an interview with Sky News on Thursday afternoon that he was \"here for the sandwich content.\"\n\n\"I wish I could have a cross-party consensus here with Kemi Badenoch, but I can\u2019t,\" he said. \"You know, I think I need to persuade her of the delights of a bacon sandwich.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UK's political leaders have traded barbs again, not over immigration, the economy or multiple crises overseas \u2014 but Britain's much-loved lunchtime staple: the sandwich. <\/p>\n<p>The row, of sorts, started on Thursday after the new Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch declared that she was \"not a sandwich person\" in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>\"Lunch is for wimps,\" Badenoch told the Spectator magazine. \"I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Sometimes I will get a steak,\" she added. \"I don\u2019t think sandwiches are a real food, it\u2019s what you have for breakfast.\"<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is juggling issues from housing and taxation to the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU, expressed his surprise at Badenoch's comments and came to the defence of sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a great British institution, I believe it brings in \u00a38 billion (\u20ac9.6 billion) to the UK economy,\" said a spokesperson for Starmer. \"I think the prime minister is quite happy with a sandwich lunch,\" he said, adding that this could be a tuna or cheese offering.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Thursday, Badenoch posted on X: \"The PM has time to respond to my jokes about lunch \u2026 but no time for the farmers who produce our food.\" Thousands of British farmers protested in Westminster last month over a controversial inheritance tax plan they say will destroy family farms. <\/p>\n<p>Starmer has endured a testing first six months as prime minister, having faced criticism over accepting <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//09//19//pm-starmer-under-fire-for-failing-to-declare-gifts-on-time/">donations and gifts<\/a> such as Taylor Swift and Arsenal FC tickets and unpopular tax increases announced in a recent budget. <\/p>\n<p>His approval ratings are low \u2014 Ipsos last month recorded a net favourability rating of minus 29 while YouGov put him at minus 33 \u2014 yet are still higher than those of his PM predecessors Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss (both Conservatives) while they were in office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8887912,8857432\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//18//british-pm-keir-starmer-says-he-has-no-plans-to-speak-with-putin/">British PM Keir Starmer says he has no plans to speak with Putin <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//06//no-uk-pm-hasnt-told-citizens-who-disagree-with-him-to-leave-the-country/">No, UK PM hasn't told citizens who disagree with him to leave the country<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starmer's support for sandwiches was shrewd, judging by the reactions on social media and debate on British television channels and radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Winship, director of the British Sandwich & Food To Go Association, dismissed Badenoch's disdain for sandwiches as \"rubbish\" during a BBC radio discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\"We eat 3.5 billion commercially made sandwiches every year. This is part of our heritage,\" Winship said. <\/p>\n<p>This is hardly the first time that sandwiches have been at the forefront of British politics.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the then-Labour Party Ed Miliband was ridiculed after an ungainly attempt to eat a bacon sandwich was captured on camera. The following year, the Sun newspaper ran the photo of Miliband the day before the UK's 2015 general election. Miliband lost.<\/p>\n<p>Miliband, who is now the UK's energy secretary, joked in an interview with Sky News on Thursday afternoon that he was \"here for the sandwich content.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I wish I could have a cross-party consensus here with Kemi Badenoch, but I can\u2019t,\" he said. \"You know, I think I need to persuade her of the delights of a bacon sandwich.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734089724,"updatedAt":1734094468,"publishedAt":1734094465,"firstPublishedAt":1734094465,"lastPublishedAt":1734094465,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/00\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_be21b4a2-9939-5515-a1e8-e7aa4b83ee24-8910058.jpg","altText":"File: This photo shows a ham and cheese sandwich with green spread, styled by Sarah Abrams, displayed at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, US, 4 August, 2016.","caption":"File: This photo shows a ham and cheese sandwich with green spread, styled by Sarah Abrams, displayed at the 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ANDREW CHINA SPYING","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Suspected Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew banned from UK","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Suspected Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew banned from UK","titleListing2":"Chinese \u2018confidant\u2019 of Prince Andrew banned from UK for alleged spying","leadin":"The man, known only as H6, was found to have been in communication with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), an arm of the Chinese state.","summary":"The man, known only as H6, was found to have been in communication with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), an arm of the Chinese state.","keySentence":"","url":"suspected-chinese-spy-with-links-to-prince-andrew-banned-from-uk","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/13\/suspected-chinese-spy-with-links-to-prince-andrew-banned-from-uk","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Chinese businessman and suspected spy for Beijing with close ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the UK on national security grounds. \n\nThe 50-year-old, referred to as H6 in court documents, was removed from a flight from Beijing to London in February 2023, and banned from the UK the following month over his alleged \"covert and deceptive activity\" for an arm of the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nH6 had appealed against the ban at the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), but lost his case on Thursday. As a result of the ruling, his relationship with the Duke of York came to light, with the man described as a \"close confidant\" of the royal.\n\nThe ban on H6 came after documents were discovered on his personal devices, following their confiscation by UK border security officials in November 2021. \n\nThe evidence included letters from one of Prince Andrew\u2019s advisers and also correspondence with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), an arm of the Chinese state. \n\nIn a 2020 letter, the Duke of York's aide told H6, who had just been invited to the prince\u2019s birthday party, that he was seen favourably by Andrew and his family. \n\n\"You should never underestimate the strength of that relationship. Outside of his closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on,\" the adviser said in the letter, which was published as part of the SIAC's ruling.\n\n\"Under your guidance, we found a way to get the relevant people unnoticed in and out of the house in Windsor,\" the adviser wrote in the letter.\n\nThe same aide also said in another letter that H6 could engage with potential partners and investors in China on the prince\u2019s behalf. \n\nAnother document dated 24 August 2021 detailed the \"main talking points\" for a call with Andrew. The list contained advice such as the need to manage the prince\u2019s expectations, as well as the observation that the royal was in a \u201cdesperate situation and will grab onto anything\".\n\nThe judges on the SIAC found that H6 could have used his influence over the Duke of York for political interference. \n\nThey said that the government's actions in the case were \"justified and proportionate\", noting that H6\u2019s close relationship with Andrew left the prince \"vulnerable\". \n\n\"It is obvious that the pressures on the Duke could make him vulnerable to the misuse of that sort of influence,\" they wrote. \n\nBuckingham Palace has refused to comment on the affair, noting that the prince is no longer a working royal. \n\nMeanwhile, Tom Tugendhat, a former security minister, said the affair was \"extremely embarrassing\" for the prince, who stepped back from royal duties in November 2019 after public outrage over his friendship with the late disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2022, the royal family removed Andrew's military links and royal patronages.\n\nTugendhat, a politician for the Conservative Party, told the BBC that China is hypocritical when it tells other countries not to interfere, especially over its human rights record. \n\n\"Actually they [China] do nothing but interfere in the United Kingdom and in many, many other countries around the world,\" he said. \n\nBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently called for stronger business cooperation between the UK and China. He spoke to his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit last month, making him the first British prime minister since 2018 to meet Xi in person. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Chinese businessman and suspected spy for Beijing with close ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the UK on national security grounds. <\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old, referred to as H6 in court documents, was removed from a flight from Beijing to London in February 2023, and banned from the UK the following month over his alleged \"covert and deceptive activity\" for an arm of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>H6 had appealed against the ban at the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), but lost his case on Thursday. As a result of the ruling, his relationship with the Duke of York came to light, with the man described as a \"close confidant\" of the royal.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on H6 came after documents were discovered on his personal devices, following their confiscation by UK border security officials in November 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The evidence included letters from one of Prince Andrew\u2019s advisers and also correspondence with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), an arm of the Chinese state. <\/p>\n<p>In a 2020 letter, the Duke of York's aide told H6, who had just been invited to the prince\u2019s birthday party, that he was seen favourably by Andrew and his family. <\/p>\n<p>\"You should never underestimate the strength of that relationship. Outside of his closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on,\" the adviser said in the letter, which was published as part of the SIAC's ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\"Under your guidance, we found a way to get the relevant people unnoticed in and out of the house in Windsor,\" the adviser wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The same aide also said in another letter that H6 could engage with potential partners and investors in China on the prince\u2019s behalf. <\/p>\n<p>Another document dated 24 August 2021 detailed the \"main talking points\" for a call with Andrew. The list contained advice such as the need to manage the prince\u2019s expectations, as well as the observation that the royal was in a \u201cdesperate situation and will grab onto anything\".<\/p>\n<p>The judges on the SIAC found that H6 could have used his influence over the Duke of York for political interference. <\/p>\n<p>They said that the government's actions in the case were \"justified and proportionate\", noting that H6\u2019s close relationship with Andrew left the prince \"vulnerable\". <\/p>\n<p>\"It is obvious that the pressures on the Duke could make him vulnerable to the misuse of that sort of influence,\" they wrote. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8344104,6478476\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//02//15//prince-andrew-reaches-settlement-in-virginia-giuffre-sexual-abuse-case-says-court-filing/">Prince Andrew reaches settlement in Virginia Giuffre sexual abuse case, says court filing<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//02//gillian-anderson-and-rufus-sewell-recreate-a-royal-media-disaster-in-prince-andrew-drama-s/">Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell recreate a royal media disaster in Prince Andrew drama 'Scoop'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on the affair, noting that the prince is no longer a working royal. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tom Tugendhat, a former security minister, said the affair was \"extremely embarrassing\" for the prince, who stepped back from royal duties in November 2019 after public outrage over his friendship with the late disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2022, the royal family removed Andrew's military links and royal patronages.<\/p>\n<p>Tugendhat, a politician for the Conservative Party, told the BBC that China is hypocritical when it tells other countries not to interfere, especially over its human rights record. <\/p>\n<p>\"Actually they [China] do nothing but interfere in the United Kingdom and in many, many other countries around the world,\" he said. <\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently called for stronger business cooperation between the UK and China. 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growth forecasts for next year are nonetheless set to be stronger for the UK than the eurozone.\n\nThe group predicts UK growth at 1.7% in 2025, compared to a eurozone forecast of 1.3%.\n\nHigh borrowing costs have constrained spending across both regions, although interest rates are now on a downward trajectory.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UK economy shrank by 0.1% in October, following a contraction of the same scale in September, said the Office for National Statistics on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The figures mark the first back-to-back fall since March and April 2020, when the UK entered its first COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Economists polled by Reuters had expected a 0.1% gain.<\/p>\n<p>The services sector showed no growth, while output in the manufacturing and construction industries fell in October.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as a setback for the new Labour government, who have put economic growth at the heart of their political campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Since the July election, finance minister Rachel Reeves has tried to moderate short-term aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>When unveiling her budget in October, she warned of an economic \u201cblack hole\u201d left by the previous government.<\/p>\n<p>\"While the figures this month are disappointing, we have put in place policies to deliver long-term economic growth,\" Reeves said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With roots in trade union movements, the Labour Party under Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been working to prove itself as a business-friendly government.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians will now face an uphill battle to get some of these business leaders back on side - particularly as national insurance costs rise for employers.<\/p>\n<p>There are also concerns that the hike in employer tax could be passed on to employees if businesses cut back on hiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contraction in October will be concerning for the new Government as it offers a stark reflection of the hit to the economy from the uncertainty running up to the 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Why is Europe restricting them?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Why Western Europe is rolling back access to puberty blockers","titleListing2":"The UK is the latest country to ban puberty blockers for trans kids. Why is Europe restricting them?","leadin":"Several countries have restricted the use of puberty blockers, citing insufficient evidence on their benefits for gender-questioning youth and potential long-term effects.","summary":"Several countries have restricted the use of puberty blockers, citing insufficient evidence on their benefits for gender-questioning youth and potential long-term effects.","keySentence":"","url":"the-uk-is-the-latest-country-to-ban-puberty-blockers-for-trans-kids-why-is-europe-restrict","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/12\/13\/the-uk-is-the-latest-country-to-ban-puberty-blockers-for-trans-kids-why-is-europe-restrict","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The United Kingdom has banned puberty blockers for children and adolescents under age 18, making it the latest country in Western Europe to limit access to the treatment for transgender and gender-questioning youth.\n\nThe rule extends a temporary ban issued earlier this year on the sale and supply of puberty blockers, which delay the physical changes associated with puberty, such as the growth of breasts, testicles, and body hair, and a deeper voice.\n\nTypically used for children with precocious puberty \u2013 when puberty starts around age 7 or younger for girls, and age 8 or younger for boys \u2013 puberty blockers can also be offered to children on the cusp of normal puberty, with the goal of giving young people time to consider their gender identity.\n\nLater, adolescents may go on hormones like oestrogen or testosterone to develop in their chosen gender, or opt for more invasive procedures like surgeries when they are older.\n\nThe UK decision means gender-questioning adolescents will no longer be able to receive puberty blockers from their doctors. But the UK isn't the only country to roll back access in recent years.\n\nA handful of European countries \u2013 such as Sweden, Denmark, and France \u2013 have also moved to limit their use to research settings or in exceptional circumstances, amid intense medical debate over how to care for the growing number of children who identify with a gender other than their biological sex.\n\n\u201cWe've shifted into a direction saying if we're going to stop normal puberty in certain young people, then we need to do it with our eyes open [and] collect the data very carefully,\u201d Dr Ashley Grossman, emeritus professor of endocrinology at the University of Oxford, told Euronews Health.\n\n\u201cThere may be some children who are going to improve, who feel this is absolutely the right thing to do, and others for whom it's inappropriate,\u201d he said.\n\nWhat has changed?\n\nIt\u2019s an apparent reversal from the so-called \u201cDutch protocol,\u201d which for years was hailed as the gold standard for medical care for transgender children.\n\nIn the 1990s, clinics in the Netherlands began offering puberty blockers and hormonal treatments to children and teenagers, who previously had to wait until adulthood to seek gender-affirming medical care.\n\nIn a long-term study published in 2014, Dutch researchers reported that access to these treatments had improved patients\u2019 mental health and curbed their gender dysphoria, which is when someone experiences distress because their gender identity does not match their biological sex at birth.\n\nThis care enabled them to \u201cdevelop into well-functioning young adults,\u201d researchers said.\n\nBut in recent years, clinicians and researchers in the Netherlands and elsewhere have argued that those findings may not apply to today\u2019s gender-questioning youth, and that the early studies didn\u2019t track how the patients fared long enough into adulthood.\n\nIn 2015, for example, Finnish researchers found that patients who were biologically female at birth were \u201cmarkedly overrepresented\u201d at two clinics specialising in gender identity, differing from studies done elsewhere and meaning the Dutch patients may have had different backgrounds and needs than the Finnish patients.\n\nFurther, 62 per cent of the Finnish patients began questioning their gender identity around age 12 or later, and many experienced gender dysphoria alongside other psychological issues and \u201cconsiderable challenges\u201d in their development overall.\n\nToday, the medical debate is being driven by the \u201cincrease in the numbers of people who are presenting [to gender clinics], the change in the type of people presenting, and social changes,\u201d as well as the \u201cdemand for some data and evidence\u201d on puberty blockers, according to Dr Joe Brierley, a critical care doctor in the UK and head of ethics at the European Academy of Paediatrics.\n\n\u201cBut it\u2019s kind of hard, because at the same time as wanting data, no one's funding research,\u201d Brierley told Euronews Health.\n\nIn 2020, the UK government commissioned Dr Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to assess the evidence on gender-affirming medical care for young people and provide recommendations.\n\nThe landmark Cass Review was published earlier this year and concluded that the evidence on how puberty blockers affect children\u2019s gender dysphoria and mental health is weak, and that it\u2019s still unclear how the drugs affect their cognitive and psychosexual development in the long term.\n\nHow European countries approach puberty blockers\n\nCountries like Denmark and Finland are now prioritising counselling and supportive services over medical interventions for young people with gender dysphoria.\n\nIn Denmark, the number of referrals to the country\u2019s sole adolescent gender clinic more than tripled between 2016 and 2022 \u2013 from 97 to 352 \u2013 but patients have become less likely to be offered hormone treatments.\u00a0\n\nThat share fell from 67 per cent in 2016 to 10 per cent in 2022, according to the Copenhagen area\u2019s health agency.\n\nIn Finland, hormonal treatments can be given to adolescents if it is clear that their identity as another gender is of a \u201cpermanent nature and causes severe dysphoria\u201d.\n\nIn 2022, the Swedish authorities said the risks likely outweigh the benefits of puberty blockers, but said that the treatment can be offered in \u201cexceptional\u201d cases to adolescents with gender dysphoria.\n\nFrance takes a similar approach. The French medical academy says puberty blockers are available at any age with parental consent, but encourages \u201cthe greatest reserve\u201d in their use given the potential long-term side effects, which may include osteoporosis or fertility issues.\n\nMeanwhile, in Norway, puberty blockers are limited to clinical trials, and in Spain and the Netherlands, they are available through specialist care.\n\nThe debate over how to care for these children is also ongoing in Belgium and Italy.\n\nYet while a handful of countries have limited the use of puberty blockers while calling for more research on them, other parts of Europe are moving to restrict gender-affirming medical care overall as part of a broader pushback against LGBTQ rights.\n\nIn Georgia, for example, the parliament passed a ban on all trans-specific healthcare in a bid to preserve \u201cfamily values\u201d this year.\n\n\u201cDifferent countries in Europe are in massively different places here,\u201d Brierley said.\n\nGoing forward\n\nGrossman said the debate over puberty blockers and other medical care for gender-questioning youth should be less politicised and instead focus on scientific inquiry into how safe the drugs are, how well they work for kids with gender dysphoria, and any potential long-term effects.\n\n\u201cThere's been a lot of people riding on one train or another saying this is clearly, absolutely essential for these children, [or] we should never use it at all,\u201d Grossman said.\n\n\u201cYou've got to have the evidence\u201d.\n\nIn the meantime, Brierley said medical care for gender-questioning children should be more holistic, with better collaboration between pediatricians, specialists, and mental health professionals.\n\nThat could be especially important for children and teenagers who have already started puberty blockers or other gender-affirming treatments in countries where access has been rolled back, he said.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of a gap\u2026 This has now been restricted, but nothing's really been put in its place just yet,\u201d Brierley said.\n\n\u201cThe child has to be treated as a person, with all of their issues looked at and considered\u201d.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The United Kingdom has banned puberty blockers for children and adolescents under age 18, making it the latest country in Western Europe to limit access to the treatment for transgender and gender-questioning youth.<\/p>\n<p>The rule extends a temporary ban issued earlier this year on the sale and supply of puberty blockers, which delay the physical changes associated with puberty, such as the growth of breasts, testicles, and body hair, and a deeper voice.<\/p>\n<p>Typically used for children with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//09//26//european-girls-are-starting-puberty-much-earlier-than-before-heres-what-we-know-about-why/">precocious puberty<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 when puberty starts around age 7 or younger for girls, and age 8 or younger for boys \u2013 puberty blockers can also be offered to children on the cusp of normal puberty, with the goal of giving young people time to consider their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Later, adolescents may go on hormones like oestrogen or testosterone to develop in their chosen gender, or opt for more invasive procedures like surgeries when they are older.<\/p>\n<p>The UK decision means gender-questioning adolescents will no longer be able to receive puberty blockers from their doctors. But the UK isn't the only country to roll back access in recent years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8761002\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//12//24//uk-named-the-unhappiest-country-for-children-whats-behind-europes-decline-in-youth-well-be/">UK was named unhappiest country for children in 2024. Are youth in the rest of Europe any happier?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A handful of European countries \u2013 such as Sweden, Denmark, and France \u2013 have also moved to limit their use to research settings or in exceptional circumstances, amid intense medical debate over how to care for the growing number of children who identify with a gender other than their biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe've shifted into a direction saying if we're going to stop normal puberty in certain young people, then we need to do it with our eyes open [and] collect the data very carefully,\u201d Dr Ashley Grossman, emeritus professor of endocrinology at the University of Oxford, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be some children who are going to improve, who feel this is absolutely the right thing to do, and others for whom it's inappropriate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What has changed?<\/strong><\/h2><p>It\u2019s an apparent reversal from the so-called \u201cDutch protocol,\u201d which for years was hailed as the gold standard for medical care for transgender children.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, clinics in the Netherlands began offering puberty blockers and hormonal treatments to children and teenagers, who previously had to wait until adulthood to seek gender-affirming medical care.<\/p>\n<p>In a long-term study <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////publications.aap.org//pediatrics//article-abstract//134//4//696//32932//Young-Adult-Psychological-Outcome-After-Puberty?\%22>published in 2014<\/strong><\/a>, Dutch researchers reported that access to these treatments had improved patients\u2019 mental health and curbed their gender dysphoria, which is when someone experiences distress because their gender identity does not match their biological sex at birth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8826072\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//01//eu-countries-clash-with-who-over-trans-rights-and-access-to-healthcare/">EU countries clash with WHO over trans rights and access to healthcare <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This care enabled them to \u201cdevelop into well-functioning young adults,\u201d researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent years, clinicians and researchers in the Netherlands and elsewhere have argued that those findings may not apply to today\u2019s gender-questioning youth, and that the early studies didn\u2019t track how the patients fared long enough into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, for example, Finnish researchers found that patients who were biologically female at birth were <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////capmh.biomedcentral.com//articles//10.1186//s13034-015-0042-y/">/u201cmarkedly overrepresented\u201d<\/strong><\/a> at two clinics specialising in gender identity, differing from studies done elsewhere and meaning the Dutch patients may have had different backgrounds and needs than the Finnish patients.<\/p>\n<p>Further, 62 per cent of the Finnish patients began questioning their gender identity around age 12 or later, and many experienced gender dysphoria alongside other psychological issues and \u201cconsiderable challenges\u201d in their development overall.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the medical debate is being driven by the \u201cincrease in the numbers of people who are presenting [to gender clinics], the change in the type of people presenting, and social changes,\u201d as well as the \u201cdemand for some data and evidence\u201d on puberty blockers, according to Dr Joe Brierley, a critical care doctor in the UK and head of ethics at the European Academy of Paediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s kind of hard, because at the same time as wanting data, no one's funding research,\u201d Brierley told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the UK government commissioned Dr Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to assess the evidence on gender-affirming medical care for young people and provide recommendations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8380698\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//04//18//swedens-parliament-makes-it-easier-for-young-people-to-change-gender/">Sweden's parliament makes it easier for young people to change gender<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The landmark <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////cass.independent-review.uk//home//publications//final-report///">Cass Review<\/strong><\/a> was published earlier this year and concluded that the evidence on how puberty blockers affect children\u2019s gender dysphoria and mental health is weak, and that it\u2019s still unclear how the drugs affect their cognitive and psychosexual development in the long term.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How European countries approach puberty blockers<\/strong><\/h2><p>Countries like Denmark and Finland are now prioritising counselling and supportive services over medical interventions for young people with gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>In Denmark, the number of referrals to the country\u2019s sole adolescent gender clinic more than tripled between 2016 and 2022 \u2013 from 97 to 352 \u2013 but patients have become less likely to be offered hormone treatments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That share fell from 67 per cent in 2016 to 10 per cent in 2022, according to the Copenhagen area\u2019s health agency.<\/p>\n<p>In Finland, hormonal treatments can be given to adolescents if it is clear that their identity as another gender is of a \u201cpermanent nature and causes severe dysphoria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the Swedish authorities said the risks likely outweigh the benefits of puberty blockers, but said that the treatment can be offered in \u201cexceptional\u201d cases to adolescents with gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>France takes a similar approach. The French medical academy says puberty blockers are available at any age with parental consent, but encourages \u201cthe greatest reserve\u201d in their use given the potential long-term side effects, which may include osteoporosis or fertility issues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8743502\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//09//19//georgias-government-adopts-anti-lgbtq-law-raising-concerns-ahead-of-elections/">Georgia passes Russian-style anti-LGBTQ+ law ahead of crucial election<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in Norway, puberty blockers are limited to clinical trials, and in Spain and the Netherlands, they are available through specialist care.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over how to care for these children is also ongoing in Belgium and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet while a handful of countries have limited the use of puberty blockers while calling for more research on them, other parts of Europe are moving to restrict gender-affirming medical care overall as part of a broader pushback against LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, for example, the parliament passed a ban on all trans-specific healthcare in a bid to preserve \u201cfamily values\u201d this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent countries in Europe are in massively different places here,\u201d Brierley said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Going forward<\/strong><\/h2><p>Grossman said the debate over puberty blockers and other medical care for gender-questioning youth should be less politicised and instead focus on scientific inquiry into how safe the drugs are, how well they work for kids with gender dysphoria, and any potential long-term effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere's been a lot of people riding on one train or another saying this is clearly, absolutely essential for these children, [or] we should never use it at all,\u201d Grossman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou've got to have the evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8872988\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//27//nearly-40-of-european-workers-are-at-higher-risk-of-poor-mental-health-according-to-new-su/">Nearly 40% of European workers are at higher risk of poor mental health, according to new survey<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, Brierley said medical care for gender-questioning children should be more holistic, with better collaboration between pediatricians, specialists, and mental health professionals.<\/p>\n<p>That could be especially important for children and teenagers who have already started puberty blockers or other gender-affirming treatments in countries where access has been rolled back, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of a gap\u2026 This has now been restricted, but nothing's really been put in its place just yet,\u201d Brierley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe child has to be treated as a person, with all of their issues looked at and considered\u201d.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734014313,"updatedAt":1734083536,"publishedAt":1734073223,"firstPublishedAt":1734073223,"lastPublishedAt":1734083536,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Armando Franca\/AP Photo","altText":"An attendee carries a transgender flag during a march in Portugal in March 2024.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"An attendee carries a transgender flag during a march in 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