Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo OBE warns ethnic minorities who refuse honours for their links to Empire risk making them prizes ‘for white people’ Writer Bernadine Evaristo awarded an OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020 The 61-year-old was first black woman to win Booker Prize in 2019 for her novel Evaristo has said it … Read more
Germans who refuse to quarantine after being exposed to Covid will be held in detention centres under new rules prepared by regional authorities. The eastern state of Saxony has confirmed plans to hold quarantine-flouters in a fenced-off section of a refugee camp set to be build next week. The regional state claimed that the facility … Read more
Those who refuse to be immunised against COVID-19 could be banned from pubs, restaurants or their workplaces under a radical plan proposed by Gladys Berejiklian. The New South Wales Premier has revealed she is considering implementing regulations that would prohibited residents who have not vaccinated from entering certain venues. She said the measures would be … Read more
Royal Mail workers are refusing to deliver post to areas that have been deemed ‘inaccessible’ due to snow. One social media user from Bradford Valley, West Yorkshire, tweeted a tracking update from the postal service, reading: ‘Delivery attempted – address inaccessible’. Alongside the screenshot, he posted an image showing a light dusting of snow on … Read more
Thousands of students could refuse to pay rent for university rooms they cannot use during lockdown Students are threatening to refuse to pay rent for university accommodation Told to stay at home for online learning unless taking a select group of subjects Cambridge, Sheffield and Birmingham City acted to head off potential protests By Daily … Read more
Young women are most likely to refuse the Covid jab as poll shows almost a fifth of Britons won’t take it While more than 78% of those sampled said they would accept jab, nearly a fifth (18%) intend to refuse it Find Out Now poll sampled 55,642 people; it found the younger you are, the … Read more
Spain will keep a registry of people who refuse a Covid-19 vaccine and share the list with other EU countries Spanish health minister Salvador Illa said a list of refusals would be drawn up Vaccine will not be mandatory but Spain hopes to vaccinate 20million by June Government vaccine strategy calls for studying ‘possible reasons … Read more
Only eight per cent of Britons would definitely refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus despite fears of rising ‘anti-vaxxer’ propaganda, a poll has revealed The Government has said it is not planning to make Covid-19 vaccine mandatory The propaganda could threaten target of vaccinating 70 per cent of population In a survey of more than 17,000 … Read more
MasterChef fans are shocked by ‘eternally youthful’ Poh Ling Yeow as she reveals her real age By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:53 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 12:53 GMT, 22 December 2020 She’s the MasterChef favourite who has become a national treasure over the years thanks to her spirited laugh and … Read more
England is looking down the barrel of an even tougher post-Christmas lockdown despite Boris Johnson already plunging 38million people into Tier 3. Ministers are refusing to rule out another blanket squeeze to control a surge in cases – as has already been announced for Wales and Northern Ireland – even though it could inflict further … Read more