Pawns in a deadly power struggle: Director of Oxford’s Crisis Research Institute MARK ALMOND assesses the unrest in Israel… and what it means for world peace By Mark Almond Director Of The Crisis Research At The Crisis Research Institute, Oxford Published: 22:48 BST, 11 May 2021 | Updated: 23:17 BST, 11 May 2021 A new … Read more
Princess Leonor of Spain proved she has inherited her mother’s taste for sustainable fashion as she carried out her first engagement without her parents today The royal, 15, presided over the Cervantes Institute’s 30th anniversary in Madrid – marking her first working visit without her mother Queen Letizia, 48 and father King Felipe VI, 53. … Read more
Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more
The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic after US intelligence placed a Wuhan lab at the centre of the mystery. American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019 – weeks before the … Read more
Public Health England was axed today after a series of failings during the coronavirus crisis – but the woman to be handed the reigns of its replacement is a Tory peer with no scientific background whose husband called for PHE to be abolished. Questions are being raised over the appointment of Baroness Dido Harding as … Read more
Baroness Dido Harding, the former horse jockey who runs the NHS’s disastrous Test and Trace scheme, is to be handed the reigns of Public Health England’s replacement. The 52-year-old is set to be announced today as the head of the Government’s new Institute for Health Protection. Baroness Harding, former chief executive of TalkTalk, was appointed in … Read more
Wuhan Virology institute director says she has three strains of coronavirus on site but none of them match COVID-19 – but will anyone believe her? Institute director Wang Yanyi said the facility has three strains of the viruses She went on to say that none of the strains they had matched that of Covid-19 Comes … Read more
Wuhan Virology institute director says she has three strains of coronavirus on site but none of them match COVID-19 – but will anyone believe her? Institute director Wang Yanyi said the facility has three strains of the viruses She went on to say that none of the strains they had matched that of Covid-19 Comes … Read more
UK becoming a country of ghost towns: Think tank calls for overhaul of town planning rules to allow high streets to thrive By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 January 2020 Britain will become a ‘country of ghost towns’ unless High Street planning laws … Read more
‘Deeply religious’ President of Royal Institute of British Architects temporarily stepped down over fears woman claiming to be his mistress will reveal embarrassing details of their affair as he battles to save his marriage Alan Jones, 55, told 180-year-old Riba that ‘matter had arisen’ in his personal life Members of the institute have called for … Read more