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An increase of over 10% in the prevalence of hearing loss in the English over 50s may not be age-related, a new study by University of Manchester researchers has shown. Instead the study, published in BMC Geriatrics, found hearing loss could be linked to social and lifestyle differences in the north and south of the

We often hear that Britain is a “class-based society”. Ask people what class is and you’ll get a wide range of answers—from accent to cultural tastes—leaving you perplexed as to how it might ever be a useful construct to understand much about the realities of British life. But really it’s all about what job you

Toilet paper and ventilators may be unlikely bedfellows, but they serve as powerful symbols of the growing tensions between urban and rural regions in Australia and elsewhere amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, the media reported dozens of frenetic “supermarket swoops” across the nation. Busloads of city residents converged on rural grocery stores to fill