President Trump announced Tuesday he was freezing all funding to the World Health Organization blaming it for accelerating the coronavirus pandemic by opposing travel bans from China, which Trump supported. ‘Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role … Read more
WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:31 BST, 13 March 2020 KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo translated by Jamie Chang (Scribner £12.99, 176 pp) KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo translated by Jamie Chang (Scribner £12.99, 176 pp) Written in just … Read more
The Armchair Traveller: Seeing great cities through the eyes of a blind man and discovering the Amalfi coast with Pierce Brosnan – how to explore the world from home BBC’s Peter White charts his travels in the podcast Blind Man Roams The Globe The movie Love Is All You Need is set in both Copenhagen … Read more
Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a ‘what if’ browse in an estate agent’s window and came home having bought a cottage. What she had fallen love with was part-cottage, part-cave, dug into the stone of an Italian cliff. Janet Ellis on Blue Peter in … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE RULES OF CONTAGION By Adam Kucharski (Wellcome Collection £16.99, 352 pp) Were there a Booker Prize for timeliness, this nuggety gem of a book would be a shoo-in. But don’t think this is an opportunistic (or a simply lucky) attempt to ride on the back of the coronavirus pandemic. The … Read more