It is well-known that places that suffer from high pollution also have high levels of ill health, largely related to respiratory issues. But it is now estimated that lung cancer in people who have never smoked cigarettes or tobacco is the fifth highest cause of cancer deaths worldwide.

Religious hate crimes are on the rise in the UK. The most recent figures show that the overall number of hate crimes reported in England and Wales dropped by 5 percent in the year to last March. However, religious hate crimes leapt by a massive 25 percent.

Imagine how desperate people must be to get aboard a boat barely fit for purpose and then largely drift across some of the world’s most dangerous stretches of open water in the hope of finding a better life.

Throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, a lot of UK culture was based on what many saw as a “harmless bit of fun.”

There is a strange irony to the violence taking place in the UK.