The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnston, has rapidly changed the coronavirus strategy for Britain as a new expert report warned the country might experience up to 250,000 deaths if the the current course of action was continued. The new report is said to be the main reason for the swift and significant change in strategy […]
It’s been a rough couple of days for the British Prime Minister. First, there was the unfortunate announcement from his Government’s scientific advisors that they had, erm, under-estimated the scale of the Coronavirus problem by a magnitude of thousands of potential deaths, because, well, they’d been modelling an entirely different disease: The UK only realised […]
For anyone interested, as softies like me are, in wildlife conservation and protection, the People’s Republic of China has long been the world’s greatest and most abominable villain. Nearly all of the poaching of endangered species in Africa, for example, is carried out to meet the demands of the Chinese market. Rhinoceros are regularly shot, […]
One senior NHS official told the Guardian that the figures mean up to half a million people could die, if the expected mortality rate of 1% materialises in Europe.
His whereabouts remain unclear after friends reported Mr. Ren as missing on Saturday, with police offering no comment on the matter.
Spain has declared a national emergency in a bid to curtail the Coronavirus – but the country is also showing its deepest appreciation for the medical professionals who are fighting the virus on the frontline. The country is in quarantine, but people in cities and towns across Spain are stepping out on balconies and doorsteps at 10pm […]
Italian actor Luca Franzese has posted a heartbreaking video from the deathbed of his sister, who lost her life to the coronavirus on Saturday.
Confined to their homes, neighbours sang ‘Canto della Verbena’ (And While Siena Sleeps), a folk song about the Tuscan city.
Here at Gript, we generally do our best to defend capitalism as, well, the least-worst way to organise a society. As in so many other areas of life, though, the people you defend don’t always make it easy. Here’s Jeremy Warner, writing in that (usually very fine) journal of British Conservatism, The Daily Telegraph: “Using […]
As I write this, two big pieces of news are filtering through from the world of sport: First, the Spanish equivalent of the Premiership, La Liga, has been suspended after Real Madrid players were quarantined. The news comes after a Juventus player in Italy, Daniele Ruggani, tested positive for the illness last night: LaLiga has […]
MP Nadine Dorries in 2017 (Photo: Chris McAndrew/Parliament) Nadine Dorries, the British Junior Health Minister, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now in isolation. Ms Dorries released a statement confirming that she had tested positive for the virus, before going on to state that “Public Health England has started detailed contact tracing and the […]
Hong Kong Free Press reports that hundreds of Hong Kongers gathered last week in memorial of 22-year-old student protestor Alex Chow Tsz-lok, who died last November after falling one storey from a car park and sustaining fatal head injuries. It is believed by some that he was trying to evade police as they attempted to […]