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The image of Nigel Farage has loomed over this party conference season, as the established parties scramble to come up with a response to the rapid rise of Reform UK.

AI tools that can create fully-formed videos from simple text prompts by users have made rapid advances in recent years.

Some smaller African nations have seen even more rapid growth with Algeria increasing imports 33-fold, Zambia eightfold and Botswana sevenfold.

That report also noted that staffing shortages, communication issues, challenges with lab equipment and stockouts of HIV rapid tests and medicines were impacting screening, diagnosis and treatment.

Where there is no real doubt is that the particularly rapid losses of the past 40 years or so are not natural.