An amusing little tidbit, and a useful follow up and riposte to Gordon Brown’s call this morning for a one world government to tackle the global crisis. The G7, the group of the world’s seven most powerful economies, has been in talks over the last few days about a global response to the Coronavirus, but […]
This will drive the conspiracy theorists mad: “Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown […]
Aachen Cathedral in Germany is renowned for its beauty and for being one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe, constructed by order of the emperor Charlemagne, who was subsequently buried in the church in 814. Now the Cathedral is the focus of international attention because it contains in its treasure chamber the relics of Saint Corona, the patron saint […]
The U.S. Ambassador to the Britain, Woody Johnson, has blamed China for the spread of the coronavirus, saying it ‘tried to suppress’ the emergence of the bug and accusing the Chinese government of seeking to “stonewall international health authorities that were offering assistance, requesting access and seeking more information”. “[T]he People’s Republic of China has […]
We missed out, the other day, on an absolutely fascinating and contrarian report from the Financial Times, featuring a new Oxford University study that says, in effect, that the nations of the world might be engaged in a mass act of self harm….. for nothing: “The new coronavirus may already have infected far more people […]
One of the more inspiring things about moments like the present national crisis is watching the way people from all parts of society are willing to work together to solve big problems. For example, in the past few days, doctors and nurses across the country have been making it known that the biggest problem they […]
More than 55,000 people have contracted the disease in the US, with 802 fatalities.
India yesterday entered a 21-day lockdown of all its 1.34 billion citizens, despite only recording 606 confirmed cases and ten deaths.
A petition calling for the resignation of the Director-General of the World Health Organisation [WHO], Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has now been been signed by over 500,000 people. Update: The petition has now been closed at 1,025,402 signatures. The petition was creating following criticism of the manner in which the WHO has dealt with the […]
Dr. Gal Peleg, an Israeli doctor working in Italy’s coronavirus epicentre, has warned that many hospitals will no longer be giving respirators to anyone aged over sixty. Dr. Peleg who works in Parma, Italy, told Israeli Channel 12 news that respirator machines are in such limited supply that healthcare professionals need to strictly prioritise how […]
The Daily Wire, an American news site linked to Ben Shapiro, has released a devastating timeline highlighting the attempts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to cover up the COVID-19 oubreak. It details how the CCP tried to hid the existence of the virus through a combination of aggressive actions against their own citizens, destroying […]
There’s a sense in the country, and in the wider world, at the moment, that this is the time for everyone to pull together, and that old divisions don’t really matter in the face of a genuinely existential threat to human life. In so far as possible, therefore, we’ve tried not to dole out any […]