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 […]
A feminist march for abortion marking International Women’s Day in Mexico city turned violent on Sunday, as protesters attacked churches and clashed with police.
To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
Things looked very bad for the old Arctic Sea Ice back in 2007. If you don’t remember, that was the year that Al Gore won the nobel prize for his important work in highlighting the plight of the poor Polar Bear, which was, he said, doomed to live in a virtually ice-free arctic circle by […]
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled against legalising abortion on demand in the country. The court undertook a review of the country’s abortion laws when a magistrate issued a formal proposal that abortion on demand in the first 16th week of pregnancy be made lawful. On Monday, the court ruled against extending abortion provision, which had been […]
A decision to rebrand International Women’s Week so as to make it fully inclusive to transgender people has been slammed by women’s rights group. They say the latest push for inclusivity is “excluding and erasing women from our own movement”. The controversy arose after Leicester University students’ union decided to rename the long-established celebration of women […]
A new sci-fi movie featuring a sexual relationship between a man and a robot that looks like a 10-year-old girl has sparked walkouts and complaints at a Berlin film festival.