School of African Studies university tells director to step aside as it probes his use of N-word in video call with students Adam Habib, 56, used the N-word during a webinar with his students last week There has since been widespread outrage with many calling for his dismissal SOAS’ chairwoman has agreed with Mr Habib … Read more
Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak‘s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more
Spanish regulators BAN £51 nasal spray that studies show may cut the risk of catching Covid ‘because there is no proof it is safe’ Taffix’s nasal spray product is sold in packs of four for as much as £51 on Amazon But the Spanish medicines agency has withdrawn the product from shelves They say there … Read more
Spanish regulators BAN £51 nasal spray that studies show may cut the risk of catching Covid ‘because there is no proof it is safe’ Taffix’s nasal spray product is sold in packs of four for as much as £51 on Amazon But the Spanish medicines agency has withdrawn the product from shelves They say there … Read more
Covid vaccines being used in Britain are working ‘spectacularly well’ at slashing hospital admissions in Scotland and preventing even mild infections among health workers in England, the first real-world data revealed today. Public Health England and top researchers in Scotland have published two separate papers linking up coronavirus data with vaccinations, revealing that jabs are … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK AFTER by Dr Bruce Greyson (Bantam £16.99, 272 pp) One Monday morning, at the age of 56, lorry driver Al Sullivan turned up for work and had a massive heart attack. The next thing he remembers is looking down at his own body on an operating table. He was interested, in a … Read more
St Andrews University comes under fire after axing only female gender studies professor and replacing her with two men Dr Alison Kerr helped set up St Andrews University’s Institute for Gender Studies But bosses have chosen not to renew her fixed-term contract after two years Thousands of students and academics have signed petition for Dr … Read more
Professor Kehinde Andrews is a controversial academic who is regularly wheeled out on TV debates to air his divisive views – including that Britain is ‘built on racism’ and that ‘everyone involved in it probably has a really racist past’. The professor of black studies at Birmingham City University has branded ‘whiteness’ a ‘psychosis’, called … Read more
There was confusion tonight about how deadly the Kent coronavirus variant really is after 10 SAGE studies came to wildly different conclusions about its lethality and the World Health Organization said it still hadn’t seen any convincing data. Boris Johnson and his science chiefs tonight made the shocking claim that the strain — called B.1.1.7 — … Read more
Stress soars among young adults and parents: Covid-19 pandemic has taken a huge toll on our mental health, two new studies reveal A total of 41 per cent of 16 to 25-year-olds say they ‘always’ or ‘often’ feel down The figures increase among those who are not in work during the pandemic A separate study … Read more