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Politics Home Article | Appoint Homelessness Tsar To Help Eradicate Rough Sleeping, PM Told

Politics Home Article | Appoint Homelessness Tsar To Help Eradicate Rough Sleeping, PM Told

Published by Sam Flores

5 min read2 hr Andy Burnham should appoint a homelessness tsar to help with his pledge to end rough sleeping, according to the head of a leading homelessness charity. Matt Downie, chief executive of Crisis, told PoliticsHome that the Prime Minister needs someone who “knocks heads together” across Whitehall and improves coordination inside and outside government when it comes to tackling homelessness. Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping in the UK when he first entered No 10 after replacing Keir Starmer in July. Last month, he announced that emergency accommodation will be made available to ensure that all rough sleepers have somewhere safe to live by Christmas. “We did it in the pandemic. We can do it again. But it needs all of us,” the PM said. “Government will put the money in. But I’m asking leaders in communities and sectors across society to play their part locally too. Let’s get people out the cold. And let’s bring back hope.” Rough sleeping hit record highs at the start of 2026, with 4,793 people recorded as sleeping rough on a single night in autumn …

Buying an iPhone is easy now, but people were sleeping on sidewalks for the first model

Buying an iPhone is easy now, but people were sleeping on sidewalks for the first model

Published by Jenni Sidey

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The iPhone 18 Pro officially hits store shelves today (September 18). You could likely pop into an Apple store or other retailer and grab one on your way home from work if you didn’t already pre-order it online. But, it wasn’t always this easy to get an iPhone. In fact, the first release back in 2007 was so competitive that it took a handful of PopSci editors battling long lines across the country just to get one we could write about. John Mahoney Nobody, including Apple, knew whether the country was going to riot for this phone or shrug at it, and on June 29 you could find both answers within a few hundred miles of each other. Three days before the phones went on sale, Reuters found shoppers talking themselves out of it. A Northwestern graduate student who said she really, really wanted one called the purchase a $600 gamble and decided to wait. Todd …

British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it

British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it

Published by Sam Flores

PORT RENFREW, Canada  — The five-car caravan crept down a gravel logging road as the day’s last beams of golden light filtered through the trees. About 20 forest defenders were making a stand in southwestern Vancouver Island, at a spot where a logging company was expected to cut old-growth trees the following morning. They made camp in tents and the backs of cars. One truck parked sideways across the road. They awoke at 3 a.m., their headlamps tracing the ground, as they took their positions. An hour later, headlights appeared in the distance. A logging truck slowed, idled, then turned around. Nobody got out. Nobody spoke. It was a small, inconclusive victory in a fight that has spanned generations. But for those gathered in the forest, it mattered. “There is no dispute about what happened to our land,” said Bill Jones, a First Nations Pacheedaht elder who sat in the road as daylight crept in. At 86, he’s watched the forests on his nation’s territory disappear for most of his adult life. He started logging at …

Sleeping with your pet could have negative impacts on your health, experts say

Sleeping with your pet could have negative impacts on your health, experts say

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Sleeping with your dog in the same room could be negatively affecting your sleep quality, according to my team’s 2024 research paper in Scientific Reports. We recruited a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500 American adults who completed questionnaires assessing their sleep habits. Overall, about half of the participants reported co-sleeping with pets – defined in our study as sleeping in the same room with your pet for at least part of the night. Next, our research team compared the sleep habits of people who did and didn’t co-sleep with pets. Our analyses revealed that participants who co-slept with pets had poorer sleep quality and more insomnia symptoms than those who did not. These findings persisted even after accounting for demographic differences between these groups. When considering pet type, we found evidence for a negative effect on sleep when co-sleeping …

House Democrat Urges US Action Over Sleeping Tesla Drivers

House Democrat Urges US Action Over Sleeping Tesla Drivers

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A Democratic lawmaker called ⁠on ⁠a U.S. auto safety agency ⁠on Thursday to take action to address misuse of Tesla’s Autopilot and ​Full Self-Driving systems, citing dozens of videos that appear to show drivers asleep or disengaged from driving. In a ‌letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean ‌Duffy, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois cited an NBC News report that identified 43 videos appearing ⁠to show ⁠individuals asleep in the driver’s seat of moving Teslas, including 17 this ​year. Krishnamoorthi said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “must ensure that manufacturers have adequate safeguards to prevent foreseeable misuse and that drivers are not encouraged to place dangerous levels of reliance on systems that still require their full attention.” Many ​Tesla drivers say the systems allow them to take their hands off the wheel for ⁠extended periods ⁠and some have posted videos ⁠suggesting they ​can perform other tasks while behind the wheel. Tesla, the DOT and NHTSA did not immediately respond ​to requests for comment. “Is NHTSA ⁠aware of the growing body …

The sleeping x eating secret: 15 ways to better rest, a healthier diet – and a happier life | Food

The sleeping x eating secret: 15 ways to better rest, a healthier diet – and a happier life | Food

Published by Sam Flores

A study published in the journal Nature Health last month found that food choices and meal timings have “immediate and measurable effects” on sleep. It was just the latest in a growing body of research into the link between diet and rest. Here is the latest science on what to eat for better sleep – and how sleep deprivation can affect your dinner the next day. What should I eat for a good night’s sleep? While there isn’t “a special sleep diet” that will guarantee eight undisturbed hours, a Mediterranean-style diet comes closest, says Dalhia Campbell, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association. She describes it as “a balanced, varied diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, wholegrains, lean proteins and healthy fats to help stabilise energy and support the hormones involved in sleep”. Prof Marie-Pierre St-Onge is the director of the Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research at Columbia University in New York, and the author of Eat Better, Sleep Better. Her research into “plant-forward” diets, including the Mediterranean …

Hunting down the last cases of sleeping sickness

Hunting down the last cases of sleeping sickness

Published by skeptic

Sleeping sickness once killed tens of thousands of people every year. Now, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, EU-backed researchers are testing a simpler way to find and treat the last remaining cases and eliminate the disease for good. Sleeping sickness has been all but eradicated, but a couple of hundred cases still continue to appear across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the second-largest country in Africa. Missing even a few could allow the disease to flare back to life. To track these cases down, mobile health teams travel from village to village, searching for the last people carrying the parasite. During the 1990s, the insect-borne disease is thought to have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across western and central Africa. In 1998 alone, over 34 000 cases were reported, but the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the true number of cases to be 10 times higher. Today, after decades of intensive screening, improved surveillance and better treatments, just 471 cases were reported worldwide in 2025, most of them in the DRC. For …

It’s not just rough sleeping – Andy Burnham’s housing plans need to include the ‘hidden homeless’

It’s not just rough sleeping – Andy Burnham’s housing plans need to include the ‘hidden homeless’

Published by Sam Flores

Andy Burnham has placed housing inequality, council house building and eradicating rough sleeping at the top of his priority list as prime minister. He has now announced plans to get rough sleepers in England into accommodation by Christmas. While this is a worthy goal, homelessness is not just about rough sleepers. It also includes households in temporary accommodation. Many end up being placed in accommodation many miles from where they are settled and have established connections. For vulnerable households, such as those with pregnant people, young children, those escaping domestic abuse, or people with disabilities, the law states that local authorities must provide accommodation. However, if a local authority struggles to find appropriate and affordable housing, the local authority is permitted to place households in other areas. Approximately 43,000 households per year are consequently placed “out of area”. While many households find themselves placed hundreds of miles from the place they call home, most remain within their region, though they still face the disruption of moving away from home to other local authority areas. Nationally, …

How Americans stayed cool before air conditioning: From sitting on smelly ice to sleeping on the roof

How Americans stayed cool before air conditioning: From sitting on smelly ice to sleeping on the roof

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. To say Summer 2026 has been a scorcher would be an understatement. In Europe, prolonged heat waves and record-setting hot days have crossed the threshold from unpleasant to deadly. This year alone, Europe has already reported around 25,000 heat related deaths. And more heat waves are on the way. The United States hasn’t escaped unscathed, but it’s managed to mitigate the heat’s lethality thanks in large part to widely accessible air conditioning. An estimated 90 percent of U.S. households have AC in 2026, compared to just around 20 percent of households in Europe. In the United Kingdom, which is on track to set a record for heat-related deaths this summer, AC is only a fixture in around 5 percent of households. But that near-ubiquity in the U.S. wasn’t …

Disney Snuck in and Overhauled the Millennium Falcon While You Were Sleeping. Here’s Why

Disney Snuck in and Overhauled the Millennium Falcon While You Were Sleeping. Here’s Why

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Disney When Disney announced back in May that Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run in both Disneyland and Hollywood Studios was getting an update with new missions, it was widely viewed as a welcomed but fairly minor update to the popular attraction. At its D23 conference this weekend, Disney Imagineers are offering a deep dive into how that update happened and a peek behind the curtain at all the tools used to make that update a reality. For the uninitiated, there’s quite a bit of sleight of hand involved in how Smuggler’s Run works. Each version of this ride has multiple cockpits that rotate around on a massive set of plates, so more people can quickly get on and off the ride. This means there are 28 iterations of the same ride environment inside both the California and Florida versions of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction. According to Disney Imagineers Asa Kalama and Angela Jay, each one of those 28 cockpits is powered by five 4K projectors driven by 8 graphics cards to make the whole …