Consulting giant McKinsey has been blamed for France‘s slow vaccine rollout after Emmanuel Macron gave the firm £2.83 million to handle logistics. The president signed contracts totalling £9.46 million with four large consulting firms, despite France’s traditional pride for the quality of its vast civil service. Within weeks of those deals, Macron was receiving flak … Read more
Europe’s vaccine drive has been thrown off course by a shortage of supplies that has left member states reeling and leaders in Brussels thrashing out at big pharma. Constant comparisons between Britain’s well-oiled rollout and the bloc’s own sluggish delivery has stoked frustrations on the Continent, which reached a crescendo last night when the Commission … Read more
Ministers spent an astonishing £10 billion on the failed test and trace programme as part of an extra £48 billion on public services during the coronavirus crisis, it has emerged. The bungled programme was championed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock when introduced at the end of May but, as of last week, it is still failing to track … Read more
What is the first thing you think about when you hear the name Abraham Lincoln? I imagine most people would say ‘America’s greatest president’ followed by ‘savior of the Union’ and ‘the guy who helped end slavery.’ For these three reasons, you might think Abe would be spared the increasingly insane and anarchical mob rule … Read more
America is now investigating whether coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory, not as a bioweapon, but as part of bungling experiments to prove Chinese scientists were superior to Americans in identifying emerging virus threats. Coronavirus first crossed to humans during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab, multiple sources who have been briefed on … Read more