DAN HODGES: The second wave of Covid swamped Captain Hindsight – and the jab could wash him away… 

At Wednesday’s PMQs, an unusual thing happened. Boris Johnson flattened Sir Keir Starmer.  ‘Would the Prime Minister be happy with his kids living on that?’ the Labour leader chided, as he attempted to get some leverage in the row over free school meal parcels. ‘They are an insult to the families who have received them,’ … Read more

DAN HODGES: The second wave of Covid swamped Captain Hindsight – and the jab could wash him away… 

At Wednesday’s PMQs, an unusual thing happened. Boris Johnson flattened Sir Keir Starmer.  ‘Would the Prime Minister be happy with his kids living on that?’ the Labour leader chided, as he attempted to get some leverage in the row over free school meal parcels. ‘They are an insult to the families who have received them,’ … Read more

Royal Mail is swamped by millions more parcels this year

If your Christmas presents have been rather slow to arrive, this enormous pile of parcels may explain the delay. Thousands of presents remain buried in mountains of post bags at sorting offices, it has been revealed. One image posted on Twitter displayed the huge pile of Royal Mail sacks in Bristol. A second showed that … Read more

Royal Mail is swamped by millions more parcels this year

If your Christmas presents have been rather slow to arrive, this enormous pile of parcels may explain the delay. Thousands of presents remain buried in mountains of post bags at sorting offices, it has been revealed. One image posted on Twitter displayed the huge pile of Royal Mail sacks in Bristol. A second showed that … Read more

Venice floods: St Mark’s Square swamped with water after heavy rain

Venice has been flooded with water once again as officials warn of a ‘terrible situation’ a year after the city suffered a billion pounds of damage during high tides.  Bad weather including heavy rain and high winds caused the tide in Venice to rise and flood waters reached a height of 122cm this morning, catching the … Read more

Venice floods again: St Mark’s Square is swamped with water

Venice has been flooded with water once again as officials warn of a ‘terrible situation’ a year after the city suffered a billion pounds of damage during high tides.  Bad weather including heavy rain and high winds caused the tide in Venice to rise and flood waters reached a height of 122cm this morning.  This … Read more

Onlookers battle in vain to rescue van being swamped by rising tide after driver parked it on beach

Sea you later! Onlookers battle in vain to rescue van as it is swamped by the rising tide after hapless driver parked it on the beach A white van became stranded out at sea on Redcar beach in Teeside on Sunday The coastguard battled for hours to try and pull the empty car out of … Read more

Broadband providers swamped by UK’s insatiable need for internet speed

Households across the UK are using the internet more than ever now that millions have been forced to work from home during the lockdown period.  The increase has been so great that some customers are now using enough extra data to watch three and a half hours more Netflix every single day, new research from … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: UK swamped by debts as coronavirus bites

ALEX BRUMMER: As long as UK has credible budgetary and monetary framework it should be possible to hold back siren calls for tax increases and spending cuts until recovery is assured By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:05 BST, 22 May 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 22 May 2020 Monthly borrowing figures usually … Read more