John Young

The reporter was asking about his obsequiousness with murderous Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman while Don and Eric, aka the Crypto Sibs, do business with his government.

Every year around this time, I briefly consider closing up shop for a good 5–6 weeks.

What to do when you find out you're missing a few books in your favourite detective series? Well, it so happens that public libraries still exist ...

When I began my medical practice 18 years ago, my goal was simple: to help patients improve their quality of life. Too often in modern medicine, treatment focuses primarily on prescribing medications to manage symptoms rather than identifying and addressing the underlying cause of illness.

'Local Maple MAGA supporters will campaign on divisive culture war issues, crime and punishment and an anti-government tax cutting agenda'

Context engineering for AI coding agents — the elements that make a task succeed on the first try, with a fully worked example.

In these times it's all too easy to fall back on old adages about sailing, saying the costs are too high, it's elitist and things are in decline. For sure there are areas of our sport which are suffering, and the cost of living crisis, combined with the obvious global concerns and pressures, don't make things easy, but there are some incredible bright spots which blow preconceptions about sailing out of the water, and they can be found in unlikely places.

Few ill health situations are more degrading to people of any age than loss of reasoning, faculties, and personhood. These are the unpleasant consequences of delirium—a common condition affecting ill older people, particularly those with some degree of dementia. It is characterised by recent onset of fluctuating inattention and confusion, linked to one or more triggering factors.#### SUMMARY POINTSDelirium is a major burden to healthcare services and has been largely ignored by health service planners and practitioners.1 Moreover, healthcare systems and services often unintentionally stimulate or substantially aggravate the development of delirium in older people.2 This might be understandable if delirium was unavoidable or untreatable, but the existing evidence base for delirium is sufficiently robust for prevention or attenuation of the condition to be a realistic proposition. There is a pressing need to take this action because the outcomes for delirium are poor: it contributes to substantial morbidity and mortality, causes considerable distress to patients and families, and is expensive—an estimated additional $2500 (£1275; €1875) per patient (a $6.9bn annual expenditure for Medicare in 2004).3We searched Medline and the Cochrane Library from 1996 to 2006. We drew additional material from our personal libraries of delirium references, focusing particularly on systematic reviews.Delirium is an important problem for all clinical services providing care for older people, particularly emergency departments; general medical, elderly care, surgical, and …

'Blaming the most vulnerable among us while callously failing to care for one another is no solution, no matter how tempting demonization may be for some'

What the continent can teach the world about solving problems