BBC has failed to connect with white working class audiences and must do more to make them feel represented, says head of diversity June Sarpong June Sarpong said her work to reach all groups would include the working class Said BBC had ‘serious issues’ with reaching communities like one she grew up in Also told … Read more
Despite tumbling infection rates, there is not the faintest hint of triumphalism here at the south London nerve centre of the national fight against coronavirus. And the man whose task is to protect all those on the front line has a very simple plan of action when it comes to future shortages of kit: Never … Read more
There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS’ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse racing … Read more
This has been a busy old crisis for Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who has rolled back the years to turn himself once more into a staple of the nation’s TV and radio news schedules. The sprightly 80-year-old, who gained fame as the face of the … Read more
This has been a busy old crisis for Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who has rolled back the years to turn himself once more into a staple of the nation’s TV and radio news schedules. The sprightly 80-year-old, who gained fame as the face of the … Read more
‘Hippy crack’ is less damaging than alcohol and should never have been banned, the Government’s former drug tsar has said. Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, gives users a feeling of euphoria. It was outlawed by officials three years ago. Professor David Nutt said nos, as it is sometimes known, was a ‘great British discovery’ … Read more
‘None of the antibody tests were close’: UK’s coronavirus testing tsar says none of the kits assessed by the government work well enough to be rolled out across the nation – but he remains ‘optimistic’ of a breakthrough Professor John Newton has been put in charge of ramping up testing efforts Today he admitted none … Read more