Health chiefs today insisted ‘well’ Britons do not need to wear face masks amid the coronavirus crisis – despite US officials set to advise exactly the opposite. England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam claimed wearing masks was ‘wired into’ some Asian cultures. But he ruled that there was no evidence masks helped stop … Read more
Britons are still being told face masks do not protect them from coronavirus despite the US dramatically switching its stance overnight and advising all Americans to wear them. Health Secretary Matt Hancock today said the UK would not change its approach because he claims there is little evidence to show the masks help, and they … Read more
As painful as it will be for investors in the banks, it is only right that dividend payouts and share buybacks are suspended in these extraordinary times. As the British and global economy teeter on a cliff edge, the last thing needed is for a health catastrophe to become a financial crisis. Safety must be … Read more
Boris Johnson has pledged to urgently increase coronavirus testing despite saying less than three weeks ago that the NHS was ‘well-prepared’ for an outbreak. The Prime Minister told reporters in London yesterday that a ‘game-changing’ new test will be offered to hundreds of thousands of people as soon as possible. He added at Downing Street … Read more
Boris Johnson has pledged to urgently increase coronavirus testing despite saying less than three weeks ago that the NHS was ‘well-prepared’ for an outbreak. The Prime Minister told reporters in London yesterday that a ‘game-changing’ new test will be offered to hundreds of thousands of people as soon as possible. He added at Downing Street … Read more
HISTORY BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER by Jung Chang (Jonathan Cape £25, 400 pp) One February day in 1943, a petite Chinese woman arrived by train in Washington DC and was welcomed at the railway station by Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the U.S. president. China was a U.S. ally in World War II, and … Read more
As officials across the country curtailed many elements of American life to fight the coronavirus outbreak restaurants, bars and schools across the United States were forced to close their doors. It has left parts of the country already look like ghost towns, and others are about to follow as theme parks closed, beaches shooed way … Read more
As officials across the country curtailed many elements of American life to fight the coronavirus outbreak restaurants, bars and schools across the United States were forced to close their doors. It has left parts of the country already look like ghost towns, and others are about to follow as theme parks closed, beaches shooed way … Read more
Timmy Mallett on Good Morning Britain Children’s TV star Timmy Mallett finds investing tediously boring but necessary to change the world for the better, he tells Donna Ferguson. Mallett, who famously used to whack children on the head with an inflatable hammer on TV in the 1980s, thinks ethical investments have a huge power to … Read more