The city of Philadelphia yesterday announced that, due to the outbreak of COVID-19, police will no longer arrest those found committing a number of offences, including theft, burglary, prostitution, and drug offences, effective immediately. Instead of arresting those found committing these crimes police will instead detain them long enough to confirm their identity and then […]
Beginning with denial and ending with acceptance, the five stages of grief proposed by Swiss-American psychologist Ellizabeth Kubler-Ross made her famous during her lifetime and even became a staple of popular culture. Sometimes one almost wonders, watching the Irish reaction to one event after another, whether she would have been tempted to slot ‘Brit-bashing’ somewhere […]
God bless Vanessa Hudgens. Right across the media people are looking for content that isn’t utterly depressing, or isn’t about the bloody so-called “curve”, or “social distancing”. And let me tell you, it’s a bleak, bleak landscape for content right now. And then along comes a good-looking Hollywood starlet to say something absolutely outrageous. It’s […]
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 […]