The UK faces NHS pricing disputes and US competition, but strong research, talent, and policy keep its life sciences sector resilient.

In the end, Starmer’s embarrassment-inducing flag-faffing will amount to nothing. It won’t convert fanatics. It won’t reassure fence-sitters. It won’t stop demonstrations or make asylum hotels safe.

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s a comedy writer, Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted and The IT Crowd. As a social media activist, he wrote gender-sceptical X ...