Customers without masks will not only be refused service by HSBC, but could also have their bank accounts terminated by the biggest bank in the UK.
Clinical trials in Brazil have shown China’s Sinovac vaccine, called CoronaVac, to be only 50.4% effective against Covid-19, and not 78.4% effective, as had initially been claimed. Brazil had agreed to buy 100 million doses of CoronaVac, despite Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s initial criticism of the vaccine. Brazil has had 8.2 million cases of Covid-19 amongst […]
Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter have all been affected by the shut down.
Both Twitter and Facebook have seen sharp falls in their share price as the controversy over Big Tech muzzling Donald Trump continues. Twitter plunged almost 9% since it banned the U.S. president on Friday, and embarked on what conservatives described as a “purge” of users, with many others leaving the platform in protest. Facebook slumped more than […]
Not especially newsworthy in and of itself, but certainly newsworthy in terms of what it might mean for Ireland: Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of April, top-selling Bild daily cited participants […]
A spokesman for German leader Angela Merkel said the Chancellor found it “problematic” that Twitter had permanently suspended US president Donald Trump.
Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, has reported that tensions are growing within the EU over the EU vaccine programme over the percentage of vaccines that are set to be given to Germany. The programme saw the European Commission source vaccines for all member states, and these vaccines are meant to be distributed to each EU […]
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended by the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey.
There are a number of things that are remarkable about this tweet from the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The first, though, is that it’s still up, unmolested by twitter, with no warning, or clarification attached. President Trump gets banned for dopey tweets about how he didn’t really lose the election. China, on the other hand, […]
Denmark’s national broadcaster has released a children’s cartoon about a man with the world’s longest penis.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a political group in the European Parliament, has called on the EU to be “held accountable” for the failures the ECR says have stalled vaccine rollouts in Europe. These failures, they say, have taken place whilst “millions across the continent have suffered.” The ECR currently has 62 MEPs, drawn […]
Watching the highly disturbing footage from Washington DC, last night, my mind kept going back to the autumn of 2018. On October 4th, of that year, the US Senate was engaged in a confirmation hearing for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh had been accused, you’ll recall, of sexually assaulting a high school […]