Annastacia Palaszczuk welled up on national television on Friday morning as she fronted the cameras for the first time since refusing to let a 26-year-old nurse attend her father’s funeral. The Queensland premier choked back tears as she refuted allegations she was ‘cold-hearted and nasty’ for keeping grieving families apart with draconian border closures while letting … Read more
Hospital admissions should be used as an indicator of whether tougher Covid-19 restrictions are needed in England’s hotspots, not counts of new cases, a senior Tory has said. The Government leans towards looking at how infections are going up or down in each of England’s local authorities in order to make decisions on ‘local lockdown’ … Read more
Plants can recognise their relatives, make decisions, and even COUNT, scientists say Prince Charles was roundly mocked for saying he talked to plants years ago And now it appears plants may be smarter than even the Prince of Wales thought Plants can count, make decisions, recognise relatives and remember events By Sophie Freeman for Daily Mail … Read more
A top scientist has slammed the ‘shroud of secrecy’ around the government’s coronavirus decisions – as civil servants rebel over Boris Johnson‘s call for people to return to offices. Sir Paul Nurse, chief of the Francis Crick Institute, raised concerns that crucial choices seemed to be made by a ‘black box’ in Whitehall with the … Read more
Matt Hancock today confirmed Number 10’s scientific advisory panel SAGE has been downgraded and the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is going to take over the UK’s coronavirus response. The independent body has taken a backseat now that Covid-19 is a ‘semi-permanent’ problem and not an emergency like it was during the darkest days of the … Read more
Matt Hancock announces further plans to downgrade SAGE by confirming the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is taking over Britain’s coronavirus response – as he dismisses plans to reform Public Health England before winter The Health Secretary would not put a date on when the last time COBRA met MPs looked concerned that the emergency committee … Read more
Prince William and Kate Middleton face difficult decision over sending ‘shy’ Prince George to boarding school and will not make a choice until their children’s personalities develop further, a royal expert has claimed. The Duke, 38, and the Duchess of Cambridge, 38, have been home-schooling Prince George, six, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two, … Read more
It’s been nearly 11 weeks since we were told that what we had previously thought of as normal daily life was to be shut down. Most of the activities we enjoyed would be off the menu: restaurants, hairdressers, dinner parties, garden centres, multi-generational family gatherings, sport. When Boris announced lockdown that evening of March 23, … Read more
The scale of Britain’s borrowing and debt binge caused by the Covid-19 lockdown has never been greater. Last month borrowing rocketed to £62.1billion. That number should start to ease down as people return to work and the nation’s shops open. Nevertheless, Britain, like much of the advanced world, is staring at a deficit and debt … Read more
People who make major life decisions including whether to move, adopt or propose on the toss of a coin end up happier, study says Research has found that making a decision on a coin flip could lead to happiness Villain Two-Face used the method to determine matters in the Batman movies The study found that … Read more