If you think you’re having a hard time of it in Lockdown, then spare a thought for the poor souls in Hollywood. Bear in mind, before you read this, that just seven years ago, the Oscars pulled in forty million live viewers, making it one of the biggest television events in the world. This Sunday, […]
Here are the latest figures on assisting dying in the US state of Oregon. The 2020 data shows, among other concerns, that: The numbers continue to rise steadily — 15% per year average; they are 0.61% of all deaths in Oregon (2% of all cancer deaths), up 20% from 2019 From 1 Jan 2020 the 15-day […]
In 2011 the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan was hit by a 15-metre tsunami following a major earthquake. The resulting damage disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima reactors, causing a nuclear accident. Since then the Japanese government has worked intensively with a number of international bodies to reduce contamination, improve radiation […]
This ought to be a cardinal rule for TV hosts: never, ever, interview someone without knowing what he is going to say. Sad to say, a BBC anchor chose the wrong man to comment on the Derek Chauvin trial. True, he was black, and true, he was a former police officer. But he didn’t give […]
How is it that the state of Florida, a state run by a Republican Governor who has rejected wholesale the lockdown wisdom, has had such success in reducing Covid numbers? How is it that the same state, known as the retirement home of America, has been one of the most successful states in America in […]
People who travel to South Korea often say that the most delightful aspect of their visit was the Korean people, who are hospitable, friendly, and “civic minded.” But those notoriously nice people come up way short in one very important aspect: reproducing. In 1960, South Korea’s fertility rate was 6.0. In 2020, it was 0.84. […]
An extraordinary video here, and one which really puts into context the difficulty which lockdown proponents are having in explaining the success of Texas, and Mississippi, two US states which abandoned lockdown over forty days ago, and are seeing some of the lowest Covid case totals in the US, and indeed, in the western world, […]
In a rare display of like-mindedness, the New Zealand Parliament a couple of weeks ago unanimously passed a bill adding three days to a working woman’s bereavement leave to cover the miscarriage or still-birth of a child. The new entitlement extends to spouses and partners, including a separated biological parent, to couples adopting an expected […]
District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and trained staff. Its modern appearance made it all the more surprising that two Christian nurses have been […]
A video capturing admissions of systemic propaganda by a senior official in CNN may strike a familiar note with Irish media observers: what he describes can seem similar to how news is delivered by Ireland’s national and corporate media. Undercover journalists working with Project Veritas, released two videos (with more to come) of CNN Technical […]
Researchers in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and grown chimeric embryos for up to 20 days. Despite ethical concerns, the scientists says that the procedure has potential for providing insights into developmental biology and evolution, into disease and transplants, and into drug development. “As we are unable […]
The Super League could threaten the “football pyramid” (a new, trendy term), but forgive me for thinking the pyramid was only ever scaled by Big Money clubs anyway.