The United Kingdom will become the first country in the world to start a programme of mass coronavirus vaccination, with 800,000 doses to be available from next week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced: The Pfizer/BioNTech jab is the fastest vaccine to go from concept to reality, taking only 10 months to follow the same […]
The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield OBE, has issued a series of reports showing how the children’s residential social care system is “broken” and is failing many of the most vulnerable children. She warns that children are being “dumped” in “rat-infested care homes”, that thousands of young people are being failed by the State, […]
Britain has entered a second period of hard lockdown to avert a wave of Covid-19 patients swamping hospitals. Holiday travel overseas is banned. However, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that visiting the Swiss assisted suicide clinic Dignitas will be permitted, as an exception. This follows consternation in the media over a woman with terminal breast cancer […]
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has said scientists working on the pandemic “haven’t got good evidence” to justify imposing the new lockdown measures on places of worship.
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, […]
Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules according to police chiefs in the UK.
The Tory MP was responding to Labour’s Dawn Butler’s call to “decolonize” the history curriculum when she reminded schools that it is illegal to present the views of the Black Lives Matter movement as “fact”.
A British Conservative MP has said Covid-19 vaccines should be mandatory when rolled-out in the UK and an accompanying certificate should be issued that would allow international travel.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that an army of marshals will be tasked with enforcing social gathering rules in the UK.
Care homes were told to impose a blanket ‘do not resuscitate’ order on all of their residents during the peak of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak, according to a major study. The survey, undertaken by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, found that while care homes were put under “constant” pressure to accept patients with Covid-19, they were […]
One would imagine that the discovery of up to 10,000 slaves in a European city might have provoked a major response. Seemingly not, for following on from the Sun and Sunday Times exposure of such an abomination, there has been surprisingly little media or political attention devoted to it. On July 1 the Sun reported […]
A petition to remove a statue of civil rights icon Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester has reached over 6,000 signatures – but also attracted considerable backlash both online and locally. The petition was started by a Kerri Pangulier from Derby who accused Gandhi of being a ‘racist and facist’ and called for his statue to be taken […]