The New York Post is the third largest domestic newspaper in the United States by circulation. It’s a tabloid, founded in 1801, and could best be described as sort of an American equivalent to The Sun. A tabloid, but a real newspaper – not comedy publication like, say, the National Enquirer. Yesterday it ran a […]
A 25 year-old Nevada man has reportedly contracted covid-19 for the second time, with the latest infection allegedly being more severe than the first. According to the report in the Lancet, the man had “no known immune disorders”. However, on the 25th of March, around the peak of the pandemic, he first noticed a wave […]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates says the world won’t return to normal until “a lot of people” take a second “super-effective” coronavirus vaccine.
Euthanasia is currently legal for Dutch children over 12 who are given parental consent, and for babies up to a year old whose parents choose for them to be euthanised due to severe pain. 16 and 17-year olds do not need to attain parental consent, but must simply inform them of their decision.
A fairly extraordinary statement for any politician to make, this, but worth reading, in the context of the ongoing mud-flinging match that is the US Presidential election: My thoughts on the current state of our politics: pic.twitter.com/oYY4zlX6ZP — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 13, 2020 He’s right, of course – it is terrible. Whether one is […]
The British Prime Minister has warned that the speedy development of a covid-19 vaccine cannot be taken for granted. Boris Johnson told the British parliament on Monday that while there were “hopeful signs” that a vaccine would be developed, he warned that it could not be taken for granted. “There are some very hopeful signs not least […]
Confession: I’m one of those people who switches the channel during an Attenborough documentary when there’s a danger that the Lions are about to catch and eat the poor little antelope. Obviously, you don’t want the Lions to go hungry, and for their own cute little cubs to starve, but at the same time…. Is […]
A person is defined to be living in extreme poverty if they are living on less than $1.90 a day. A new report from the World Bank, which provides funding and training to developing countries, has said that they estimate that the economic contractions caused by COVID-19 will cause the number of people living in […]
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 — […]