Judge rules government can keep the amount of public money spent on useless PPE confidential

The Government can keep the amount of public money spent on unusable personal protective equipment confidential, the High Court has ruled as campaigners bring a legal challenge over £700million worth of contracts.  The Good Law Project and EveryDoctor are bringing legal action against the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), claiming that contracts awarded … Read more

Judge rules government can keep the amount of public money spent on useless PPE confidential

The Government can keep the amount of public money spent on unusable personal protective equipment confidential, the High Court has ruled as campaigners bring a legal challenge over £700million worth of contracts.  The Good Law Project and EveryDoctor are bringing legal action against the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), claiming that contracts awarded … Read more

Packaged current accounts: Was yours useless in the pandemic?

There were more than 25,000 complaints about packaged bank accounts last year as Britons were left with monthly fees for perks rendered useless by the pandemic. Customers of the likes of Halifax, NatWest and Nationwide Building Society are charged upwards of £10 a month for additional benefits like breakdown cover, travel and mobile phone insurance … Read more

‘New York’ Covid variant that is already in the UK may not render jabs useless, says expert

A new Covid variant spotted in Britain is not a threat because it does not appear to carry any vaccine-resistant mutations, an infectious diseases expert has said. Samples of the New York B.1.526 variant taken from infected US patients were found to contain the troublesome E484K mutation, which can partially evade the immune system. But … Read more

Electric car is branded worst motor ever as experts reveal ten most useless vehicles of all time

Electric car with the ‘performance of a sleepy vole’ is branded worst motor ever as experts reveal ten most useless vehicles of all time The Reva G-Wiz topped the list of worst motors compiled by Auto Express   It pipped the likes of the Austin Allegro, Morris Marina and the Reliant Robin   By Gemma Parry For … Read more

Electric car is branded worst motor ever as experts reveal ten most useless vehicles of all time

Electric car with the ‘performance of a sleepy vole’ is branded worst motor ever as experts reveal ten most useless vehicles of all time The Reva G-Wiz topped the list of worst motors compiled by Auto Express   It pipped the likes of the Austin Allegro, Morris Marina and the Reliant Robin   By Gemma Parry For … Read more

Pharmacist who destroyed Moderna vials took them out fridge knew it would make them useless

Wisconsin pharmacist Steven Brandenburg, 46, was booked on Thursday on the same charges A Wisconsin pharmacist working at the Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Grafton deliberately removed 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from a fridge and left them out overnight knowing the vaccines would be ‘useless’ to those who received them. 57 people received … Read more

Oxford professor warns Covid could mutate and render vaccine useless

An Oxford professor has warned Covid mutations could render a vaccine useless. Richard Moxon – founder of the Oxford Vaccine Group – claimed that a mutation may ‘suddenly change the behaviour of the virus’, making it either more severe or render a jab useless.  But he stressed that fears about the impact of mutations on … Read more

Oxford professor warns Covid could mutate and render vaccine useless

An Oxford professor has warned that Covid mutations could render the vaccine useless. Richard Moxon – a paediatrics professor at Oxford University – said a mutation could ‘suddenly change the behaviour of the virus’ making it either more severe or render a vaccine useless.  But he stressed that fears about the impact of mutations on … Read more

‘BAME is a useless term’ says Centre for Social Justice think-tank

A council has been accused of being ‘racist’ for trying to rename a Plymouth square honouring slave trader and naval commander Sir John Hawkins after the city’s black football legend Jack Leslie. During the summer Plymouth City Council proposed renaming Sir John Hawkins Square after the Plymouth Argyle player who is the club’s fourth highest … Read more