In an interview this weekend, the World Health Organisation’s Special Envoy on Covid-19, Dr David Nabarro, seemed to reverse the global body’s advice on Covid-19 lockdowns. Talking to the Spectator’s Andrew Neil, Dr Nabarro urged world leaders to stop using lockdown as a “primary control method” and warned that lockdowns would increase poverty and hit those […]
World Rugby, the governing body for rugby union, yesterday issued new guidelines which will ban trans women from competing in elite and international women’s rugby. Trans women are biological males who identity as women. The new policies cover international and elite women’s contact rugby, but World Rugby say that national rugby unions can be flexible […]
Many parents these days find that their family routines have been totally disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases children are “in school” from their homes, and sports and other activities outside the home have been curtailed or canceled altogether. This means more family time together at home, which can be a mixed blessing! […]
A few weeks ago, if you recall, the universal refrain of Trump supporters was that Joe Biden was so senile and incapable of stringing a sentence together that he’d likely pull out of the debates. How times change: The Trump campaign statement following the news the next debate will be virtual #foxnews #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/IfntjS87OS — […]
A new report has shown that even as economies are contracting and concerns about employment rise, the richest people in the world have seen their wealth rocket by a massive 27% during the COVID-19 crisis. A report by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC, found that global billionaire wealth climbed to a staggering $10.2 trillion […]
In many ways, it’s surprising that it took this long for him to contract it. That’s not a comment about him personally, but about the job – he’s the President of the United States, in an election season. Even in normal times, he’s probably meeting twenty to thirty people a day sitting right across a […]
Confession: Two weeks ago or so I decided that no, I wasn’t going to sit up into the early hours of the morning to watch two cranky seventy year olds shouting at each other in America. And I was absolutely intent on keeping that promise, until Virgin Media rang yesterday and asked would I review […]
Nigerian Governor Babagana Zulum was ambushed by a Boko Haram splinter group on Sunday when a donkey strapped with explosives detonated in the street. Zulum had been accompanying several hundred townspeople back to their old homes in the town of Baga, which they had fled in 2014 after the region suffered a spate bloody jihadist […]
A British Conservative MP has said Covid-19 vaccines should be mandatory when rolled-out in the UK and an accompanying certificate should be issued that would allow international travel.
Japan Airlines has announced that, starting from October 1st, they will be banning all “gendered” language on flights. Phrases such as “ladies and gentlemen” will no longer be used to refer to passengers. Instead, phrases like “attention all passengers” or “everyone” will be used to address people more generally, or simply “good morning” and “good […]
Some of Britain’s best known writers and actors, including famed author Ian McEwan and actor Griff Rhys Jones have signed an open letter defending JK Rowling after the Harry Potter creator was the focus of sustained attack in social and mainstream media for her views on gender identity. Rowling has stood her ground after expressing concern that […]
The US government has officially offered a $5 million dollar (€4.2 million euro) reward for any information that leads to the capture of Communist rebel leader and drug-pusher Wilver Villegas Palomino. 38-year old Palomino, who US secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described as a “narcoterrorist”, has been accused of distributing cocaine in the US […]