Pictured: Tobias Ellwood, Chairman of the Defence select committee Few people today have heard of Standard Oil, the giant petrochemical company that a century ago made its founder John Rockefeller wealthier than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and Google billionaires Sergey Brin and Larry Page are today – combined. The secret of its … Read more
The admission was startling. A fortnight ago, as Britain passed the grim milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths, the Prime Minister told the nation he was ‘deeply sorry’ for every life lost and insisted his Government ‘did everything we could’. It was an unusually sombre pause for Boris Johnson, whose dogged determination throughout the pandemic saw … Read more
The admission was startling. A fortnight ago, as Britain passed the grim milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths, the Prime Minister told the nation he was ‘deeply sorry’ for every life lost and insisted his Government ‘did everything we could’. It was an unusually sombre pause for Boris Johnson, whose dogged determination throughout the pandemic saw … Read more
About 500 seeds of different tree species were launched into space in 1971 that circled around the moon 34 times before returning to Earth where they were then planted in different spots around the globe. NASA has shared a map showing the locations of these ‘Moon Trees,’ which total to 83 that mainly reside in … Read more
About 500 seeds of different tree species were launched into space in 1971 that circled around the moon 34 times before returning to Earth where they were then planted in different spots around the globe. NASA has shared a map showing the locations of these ‘Moon Trees,’ which total to 83 that mainly reside in … Read more
News of the World (12A) Verdict: Hanks for the memory Rating: Malcolm & Marie (15) Verdict: Almost unendurable Rating: Director Paul Greengrass has made some terrific feature films about dark real-life events, such as United 93, Bloody Sunday, 22 July and, for television, The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence. So a British audience might assume that … Read more
News of the World (12A) Verdict: Hanks for the memory Rating: Malcolm & Marie (15) Verdict: Almost unendurable Rating: Director Paul Greengrass has made some terrific feature films about dark real-life events, such as United 93, Bloody Sunday, 22 July and, for television, The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence. So a British audience might assume that … Read more
Fly into New York nowadays and you can’t miss it — unless its loftiest floors are wreathed in cloud. Like a giant stake driven into the heart of Manhattan, 432 Park Avenue is intended to stand out and is perhaps the Big Apple’s most ostentatious skyscraper. When it was completed in 2015, at nearly 1,400 … Read more
Oxford University and AstraZeneca plan to have a new Covid vaccine ready by the autumn to tackle new variants of the coronavirus, they confirmed yesterday. Growing evidence suggests that a mutation first found in the South African variant of the virus, and now cropping up elsewhere, can reduce how well current vaccines work because it … Read more
Mail Force’s drive to get schoolchildren online shifted up a gear yesterday with a sensational donation from Dixons Carphone. The retailer offered 1,000 ‘top spec’ laptops worth £380,000. Dixons Carphone said it was delighted to pledge the nearly new devices to help youngsters struggling to follow online classes during lockdown. All the machines, from well-known … Read more