Top officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) secretly criticised China for not providing information about the novel coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic, leaked audio files have revealed. The recordings, published by Indian TV channel WION, purportedly showed how WHO executives complained about Beijing’s refusal to release critical data in January last … Read more
How does government decide what Tiers areas are put into? Boris Johnson promised to base Tier allocation on ‘common sense’, and the government’s ‘Winter Plan’ set out a series of metrics to be used. They are: Case detection rates in all age groups; Case detection rates in the over 60s; The rate at which cases are … Read more
The top Michigan Republican legislative leaders who met with President Trump at the White House as part of the president’s extraordinary move to try to overturn Joe Biden’s popular vote win in the state said Friday evening they will ‘follow the law.’ The lawmakers, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield, issued a … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex has admitted that she provided personal information to the authors of a Royal biography via a third party who she knew had been approached by its authors. In the latest round of documents lodged with the High Court, Meghan’s lawyers reveal that she was concerned about her father’s narrative in the … Read more
Martin Moller, 72, has reportedly been identified as a Russian informant on NATO, in an operation by security services across Europe – including MI6 A retired Austrian colonel turned ‘Russian informant’ gave information which was ‘likely’ to have been used to help plan the Salisbury Novichock poisonings, it has been claimed. Martin Moller, 72, has reportedly … Read more
A household will buy more healthy food if a retailer clearly shows nutritional information on its own-brand food products, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Bath evaluated the impact front-of-pack nutrition labelling – first introduced in 2006 – has on people’s buying habits. There is a clear reduction in the quantity … Read more