Here’s a blast from the past! Joe Biden has chosen Russian sanctions aficionado Jen Psaki, the blooper making face of Obama-era foreign policy, to be his main spokesperson when he presumably moves into the White...
Dictionaries chose ‘pandemic’ as the word of the year
Two major dictionary publishers, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, have chosen ‘pandemic’ as 2020’s word of the year. The decision was based on the extremely high numbers of people who had looked up...
UN say 235M people will need humanitarian assistance in 2021
UN says it is unlikely to receive the funding it needs to help 235 million people for humanitarian assistance and protection next year
COVID-19: PM ‘begs’ MPs to back him on tiers vote
MPs have voted to approve new coronavirus regulations for England. They backed Boris Johnson’s toughened tiers system – which will replace lockdown tomorrow – by 291 votes to 78. But dozens of Tory...
COVID-19: How reliable is mass testing?
There are doubts as to the impact that a pilot scheme in Liverpool had in contributing to a fall in the infection rate there. There are also doubts over the accuracy of COVID-19 testing in general, reports Roland...