Nick Clegg, who was one of the most prominent anti-Brexit and pro-Remain campaigners in the UK, has said that something has gone “very badly wrong” with the EU, and that the bloc has let down “millions of Europeans.” The former UK Deputy Prime Minister, who had been one of the most vocal voices opposing Brexit […]
A district court in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik has ruled in seven separate cases last week that forcing people to stay in hotel quarantine is illegal. According to a statement on the government website, the court ruled that forcing passengers coming from other countries to stay in quarantine hotels “lacks legal basis.” The government […]
When we made a commitment here at Gript to keep reporting on the case numbers in Texas, around the time when Joe Biden called their decision to re-open and abolish mask mandates “neanderthal thinking”, it didn’t occur to me that we’d have to find a new “Texan” photo to headline the story every week. Last […]
Denmark has announced a full cessation of the use of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine citing concerns about rare cases of blood clots. It is the first European country to announce that it is withdrawing the vaccine until further notice – with some 2.4 million jabs shelved until further notice. During the announcement the head of […]
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt has said that Australia’s borders may remain closed even if the whole country has received the covid-19 vaccine. As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s national borders have been closed since March 2020, and will remain closed at least until the middle of June. In January, Australian health authorities […]
According to a recent CDC study in the US, 78% of people who have been hospitalised or died from covid-19 were overweight or obese. Of the 71,000+ adults who were hospitalised after receiving a covid-19 diagnosis across 238 U.S. hospitals, 27.8% were overweight and 50.2% were considered obese, according to the study – 78% in […]
Almost a quarter of deaths registered as Covid deaths in Britain are where the person has not died from the disease, the Telegraph has reported. The paper says that “the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 23 per cent of coronavirus deaths registered are now people who have died “with” the […]
West Virginia is the latest of 30 states in the US to consider a bill to protect girls and women from having to compete against biologically male trans athletes in sports. To date, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi have already enacted such legislation, with West Virginia’s Republican governor, Jim Justice, saying that he will allow the […]
A New York parent who wants to marry their own adult offspring is suing the state to overturn laws that ban incest, arguing that their “individual autonomy” is being infringed. According to court papers, as reported by the New York Post, the parent has requested to remain anonymous, because they are aware that their request […]
Mark Roche, who lives in Taiwan but originally hails from Dublin, has become the first Irish person to complete Taiwan’s 100 Peaks Challenge. The challenge requires climbing 100 Taiwanese mountains, each of which is over 3,000 metres tall. Whilst Taiwan has 268 3,000+ metre mountains the 100 mountains that make up the 100 Peaks Challenge […]
It’s tempting to say that London, in the video below, is “getting back to normal”. But that’s not quite right, is it? It’s standing room only in Soho this evening. A carnival atmosphere. “This is London,” one man tells me. pic.twitter.com/KdeqvQCaFN — Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) April 12, 2021 For one thing, though the United Kingdom […]
According to a recent report, China built enough coal power plants to increase global capacity even despite other countries closing down power stations across the globe. The report, entitled “Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline”, and published by the Global Energy Monitor, a US-based NGO, says that China commissioned 38.5 Gigawatts of […]