“Everyone will be able to take a free rapid coronavirus test twice a week from the 9th April.”
“For a range of outcomes, white working class children trail behind their peers in almost all ethnic minority groups, although the extent of these disparities vary by area.”
Simon Coveney claims there is “politics being played” however.
A notable tweet here, and from a notable source: Marc MacSharry would not, it’s fair to say, be known as a member of the vanishingly small west-brit wing of Fianna Fáil. If someone like him is urging the country to go cap in hand to the hated blonde ruffian in downing street asking for aid, […]
A tale of two countries. First, the United Kingdom: A FOUR-STAGE plan could see England’s coronavirus restrictions completely lifted by 21 June, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. And now, the place that was once part of the United Kingdom, and where at least one writer for a website you are currently reading is […]
Technically, of course, it’s not a proposal to send people to jail for going on holiday. But taken in the round, the intended effect of it is to scare the living daylights out of any Briton who fancies a week or so of debauchery in Santa Ponza: Failing to quarantine in a designated hotel after […]
A mutated strain of Covid-19 currently spreading in the UK was detected in Brazil last April.
To be honest, it’s hard to understand where the present panic in some quarters about mandatory vaccinations for Covid 19 has come from. No elected Government, facing into an election at some point in the next five years, is going to want images on the television of policemen dragging four year old girls from their […]
Nothing congeals in Ireland quite so quickly as conventional wisdom, and in the days since Joe Biden was declared President Elect by the US media, the conventional wisdom in Ireland has hardened like concrete: He’s going to shaft the British on Brexit and plant his flag firmly in the old sod of Ballina – take […]
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party, and then, latterly, the Brexit Party, has announced in recent days that he will set up a new political party – Reform UK – for the sole purpose of opposing the Coronavirus Lockdown introduced by Boris Johnson’s Government. Reform UK is not a new party, […]
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 […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that an army of marshals will be tasked with enforcing social gathering rules in the UK.