Ireland’s government has ignored scientific advice for a new national lockdown and has instead moved the country up one level on its alert scale. On Sunday, the country’s National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) recommended that all of Ireland’s 26 counties be elevated to Level 5 restrictions for the next four weeks, effectively taking them … Read more
President Donald Trump finally responded to the U.S. hitting the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths calling it ‘a shame’ after ignoring the question when a reporter first asked him about it. Trump, leaving the White House Tuesday for a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania rally, was asked by a female reporter why he hadn’t commented on the … Read more
Iran said it executed a young wrestler on Saturday despite international and social media calls for his release, including a plea from Donald Trump. Iran claims Navid Afkari was responsible for the murder of a public sector worker during anti-government protests in 2018. The 27-year-old was executed in the morning at a prison in the southern … Read more
On Radio Four last Tuesday night, a heavily-promoted programme tackled yet another phrase in the lexicon of today’s grievance culture. It was called ‘Code-Switching’ – a term used by some ethnic minority citizens to explain why they feel oppressed on the basis of how they speak, how they present themselves and how they behave. Code-switching … Read more
President Donald Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention will feature 1,500 guests on the South Lawn of the White House with no social distancing, no mask mandate and only a few of them tested for COVID ahead of the week’s grand finale. Row after row of white folding chairs were set up on the … Read more
Jude’s a Law unto himself! Actor ignores two-metre rule as he hugs his daughter and her partner – while also standing just inches from his ex-wife Sadie Frost Jude Law is seen hugging his daughter and her boyfriend on house-hunting trip The 47-year-old actor also starred in the dystopian pandemic thriller Contagion The star of … Read more
Emily Maitlis’s last-minute Newsnight replacement studiously ignored coverage of the presenter being reprimanded over her Dominic Cummings monologue as she reviewed today’s papers. The BBC admitted Maitlis had breached the broadcaster’s impartiality rules when she asserted Boris Johnson’s chief aide had ‘broken the rules’ regarding lockdown in her introduction to the programme on Tuesday. The … Read more
President Donald Trump ignored signs requiring a mask be worn when he toured a mask factory in Arizona on Tuesday afternoon and only wore safety goggles to protect his eyes even as he was surrounded by workers in face coverings. ‘Attention, face mask is required in this area,’ read the sign in the portion of the … Read more
This is the extraordinary moment the commander of a Royal Navy nuclear submarine is seen rowing with his superiors over a welcome home BBQ for his crew before they were forced into coronavirus quarantine. Commander John Lewis held an impromptu party for the crew from the ‘hunter-killer’ sub HMS Trenchant alongside their boat at Devonport … Read more
President Trump showed reporters a White House-produced video during Monday’s briefing in an attempt to shame the New York Times for critical coverage of his coronavirus response. The video, which the president said was produced by Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, showed – in the White House’s words – that the ‘media minimized … Read more