An MI6 training officer warned superiors that notorious double agent George Blake was ‘unreliable’, ‘un-british’ and lacked the qualities to work in the field for the Secret Intelligence Service, newly released papers have revealed. The warning came before his treachery began – which is feared to have sent 600 spies to their deaths by betraying them to … Read more
Leading state and private schools including Eton launch joint fight to scrap ‘unfair and unreliable’ GCSE exams More than 20 top education names have joined together to write an open letter They claim the system ‘leaves in its wake a trail of stress and unfairness’ Former education secretary who introduced GCSEs in 1988, Lord Baker, … Read more
British car maker Land Rover and US electric vehicle producer Tesla have been named the two most unreliable manufacturers in a poll of thousands of UK drivers. Land Rover, which has for years struggled with reliability issues with its big – and expensive – 4X4s, was named the least dependable brand for cars aged 0 … Read more
Volvo is synonymous with making safe cars but its biggest model, the Volvo XC90, has been named the least reliable model in the UK by a comprehensive report. Which? polled 47,000 car owners as part of its Reliability Survey and the huge Volvo 4X4 came bottom in the rankings. Nearly three quarters of owners with … Read more
HALF of coronavirus antibody finger-prick tests are unreliable, new study finds – including one that said a drop of saline was positive for the virus ABC News and the Mayo Clinic looked at nine coronavirus antibody tests that use a drop of blood from a finger prick Four of the nine failed to meet the … Read more
A Florida-based health care system says the results of more than 35,000 coronavirus tests are ‘unreliable’. According to AdventHealth, it was concerned with one of of its third-party labs, MicroGen DX, which had been processing the tests. The group says scores of patients likely received false positive or negative results. Meanwhile, thousands went at least … Read more