Restaurant and pub bosses blame furlough for lack of staff as they struggle to fill 190,000 vacancies amid fears many people will lose the will to work Businesses say they are struggling to find staff needed while furlough continues Fears are rising workers on the job retention scheme will lose their will to work Across … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: Who is to blame for Nicola Sturgeon’s diversity crisis? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:57 BST, 29 March 2021 | Updated: 01:57 BST, 29 March 2021 After winning a no-confidence vote last week, an embattled Nicola Sturgeon has launched her party’s campaign for the Scottish Parliament elections in May. Scotland, … Read more
Dr Max Pemberton said that all medicines have side effects of some sort and some of the side effects reported are nothing to do with the drug at all.
People in Germany, France and Sweden blame their own governments and the EU for their stuttering vaccine programmes while Britons are happy with the UK’s rapid progress, a new poll shows. The survey by Kekst CNC found 77 per cent of Britons saying their country has handled the vaccine roll-out well – compared to 23 … Read more
The pandemic – both the spread of the virus and the vaccination programme – demonstrates how we live in a world that is more interdependent and interconnected than at any time in human history. Just as the financial crisis in 2008-2009 spread from the United States to affect every part of the global economic system, … Read more
Bad news for hay fever sufferers! Pollen seasons start 20 days earlier, are 10 days longer, and feature 21% more pollen than in 1990 – with climate change to blame Researchers analysed measurements taken from 60 pollen stations in the US The results revealed that pollen seasons today start around 20 days earlier They suggest … Read more
HEALTH NOTES: Going grey? Blame it on your ethnicity By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2021 The age we go grey depends on our ethnicity, according to researchers from Boston University in the US. By reviewing data from 69 publications on hair ageing, they … Read more
America is set to present dramatic new evidence that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab – in the final act of the Trump administration. Senior officials in Washington say that outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to make a ‘bombshell intervention’. They say he will reveal evidence that SARS-CoV-2 did not leap … Read more
For some diehard Remainers, the images are a vision of what is to come after Britain leaves the European Union – especially if No Deal is in play. Snaking queues of lorries on the approach road to Dover port and far beyond; shipping containers piling up on docksides; a logjam of goods for distribution, from … Read more
Earl Spencer’s fury at BBC bid to blame HIM over fake documents used to set up Princess Diana interview Former BBC director-general suggested Earl Spencer produced fake documents Princess Diana’s brother is said to be ‘furious’ at the attempt to blame him Bashir believed to have initially used the documents to gain the trust of … Read more