Britain’s largest retailers are warning that food prices are being driven up by hot weather hitting harvest yields, as the latest UK heatwave pushes temperatures close to record levels, reports The Guardian, Financial Times and others.
Food price inflation rose to 3.7% in June compared with the same period last year and against 2.8% in May, according to figures collected by the British Retail Consortium and NIQ, and reported by The Grocer, The Times and elsewhere.
‘Does bingeing on UPFs give you hangovers?’ is one of the questions considered by psychotherapist Milli Hill in an interview with Claire Cohen in The Times.
The intense battle to poach top artificial intelligence researchers and engineers from rivals has seen a rapid escalation in wages, as tech groups such as Meta and OpenAI race to gain the competitive edge in the fast-developing technology, reports Financial Times.
‘Is RFK Jr’s divisive plan to Make America Healthy Again fearmongering – or revolutionary?’ asks BBC health reporter Jim Reed. “The most powerful public health official in the US has made it his mission to tackle what he describes as an epidemic of chronic illness in America, a catch-all term that covers everything from obesity and diabetes to heart disease,” Reed writes. “But Kennedy also has a history of promoting unfounded health conspiracies, from the suggestion that Covid-19 targeted and spared certain ethnic groups to the idea that chemicals in tap water could be making children transgender.”
Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat have agreed to “strengthen” security checks following reports some asylum seekers are working illegally as couriers through “illicit account sharing” reports the BBC and others. The government said the aggregators have now agreed to “increase the use of facial verification checks and fraud detection technology” to ensure only registered account holders could work off their platforms.
Thousands of people with conditions such as alcoholism, obesity and even acne are being given welfare payments to improve their mobility – including free access to brand-new cars, it has been claimed by The Taxpayers’ Alliance and reported by The Times. The group said its analysis of government data had revealed a huge rise in claims for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) over the past six years, which has contributed to the increased cost of the scheme.
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