Apocalyptic London: Capital’s streets and stations empty in Tier 4 ghost town

Stark pictures this morning paint a bleak picture of London as the streets lie empty just days before Christmas.  The festive season would ordinarily be in full swing with families out doing last minute shopping and colleagues finishing off their work before getting merry and toasting the year at Christmas parties. But the Capital was … Read more

Apocalyptic London: Capital’s streets and stations empty in Tier 4 ghost town

Stark pictures this morning paint a bleak picture of London as the streets lie empty just days before Christmas.  The festive season would ordinarily be in full swing with families out doing last minute shopping and colleagues finishing off their work before getting merry and toasting the year at Christmas parties. But the Capital was … Read more

Number 10 used apocalyptic Covid-19 graphs to ‘frighten’ public into lockdown, top statistician

Eminent statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter suggested Number 10 ‘frightened’ the public into complying with lockdown rules Number 10 cherry-picked ‘spurious’ coronavirus data to justify England’s second lockdown and may have intended to frightened the public, according to one of Britain’s top experts. Eminent statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter said ministers had ‘broken pretty much every code of … Read more

Fans of apocalyptic movies are better prepared for pandemic, study claims

Movies that portray the end of the world or post-apocalyptic scenarios – known as ‘prepper’ films – have helped viewers deal with the coronavirus pandemic, a study claims.  Psychologists have found that people who have been watching movies depicting social chaos and the collapse of global order are better prepared for the virus. Fans of … Read more

Police chiefs warn pubs will be ‘apocalyptic’ on July 4 amid fury over Saturday bar reopening

Police chiefs have warned that a ‘pressure cooker is building up’ which could erupt into an orgy of violence this summer as lockdown ends. Forces have begun cancelling leave and bolstering public order units in anticipation of widespread drunken disorder on so-called Super Saturday when lockdown is officially lifted on July 4. Privately, many police … Read more

Police chiefs warn pubs will be ‘apocalyptic’ on July 4 amid fury over Saturday bar reopening

Police chiefs warn pubs will be ‘apocalyptic’ on July 4 if weather stays the same and ‘officers are FURIOUS with Boris Johnson for reopening bars on a Saturday’ Forces have begun cancelling leave and bolstering public order units They fear widespread drunken disorder when pubs reopen on July 4 They are concerned that violence in … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: Apocalyptic loons are a staple of the Left and Right

Notes From An Apocalypse Mark O’Connell Granta £14.99 Rating: From the beginning of time, people have been predicting the end of time. Many of today’s shrillest apocalyptic predictions echo the Revelation of St John the Divine, which was written in about 90 AD. When I was growing up, in the 1960s, people imagined that imminent … Read more

Is the White House’s apocalyptic 240,000 coronavirus death toll accurate?

Donald Trump’s top advisors have expressed doubts about the accuracy of the White House’s apocalyptic forecast that 240,000 Americans will die from the coronavirus pandemic, sources have said.   As the US death reached 6,056 Thursday and the nation’s healthcare system buckles under the crisis, administration officials said the stark forecasts could have been a tactic … Read more