ANTONY BEEVOR: I fear mankind is facing a turning point

After less than a week, European leaders have started to invoke parallels between the Covid-19 crisis and a state of war. The very word instinctively makes people think of the Second World War.  They may remember slogans about keeping calm and carrying on, but as the Prime Minister reminded us, we must also start to … Read more

NHS staff reveal ‘genuine fear’ as they have to buy their own protective equipment

NHS staff reveal ‘genuine fear’ as they have to buy their own protective equipment on the coronavirus frontline The lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) has prompted concern for NHS NHS guidelines state medical staff are to have protective FFP3 masks ‘fit-tested’ But doctors say the practices have been abandoned and masks are ‘gold dust’ … Read more

Hacking fear as Ocado’s orders soar

Hacking fear as Ocado’s orders soar amid surge in desperate shoppers scrambling to stockpile essentials By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 22:13 GMT, 19 March 2020 The surge in desperate shoppers trying to arrange deliveries from Ocado was so high at one point the company feared … Read more

Why did the Federal Reserve’s ‘big bazooka’ misfire today? Panic and fear still hold sway

Why did the Fed’s ‘big bazooka’ misfire? Panic and fear still hold sway but central banks are showing they’ll do whatever it takes to steady the ship By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 15:25 GMT, 16 March 2020 | Updated: 15:25 GMT, 16 March 2020 Stock markets took yet another big dive today … Read more

Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O fear they have COVID-19 after chatting to Christian Wilkins

‘I thought you were starting to corona out on me’: Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson fear they have COVID-19 after chatting to Christian Wilkins… but they’re still in the studio By Jessamy Tredinnick For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:23 GMT, 16 March 2020 | Updated: 07:24 GMT, 16 March 2020 Kyle Sandilands and Jackie … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: I fear anyone who dissents from PC will be visited by Thought Police

It was a bright, cold day in Oxford and everywhere I looked, rainbow flags flapped and fluttered in the sharp wind.  They flew from the ancient colleges along the High Street. They flew from the Town Hall.  And what they said to me was ‘Your side has lost. There is nothing you can do about … Read more

KAROL SIKORA: Panic and fear are as contagious as this virus. And they’ll kill even more people

The Perfect Storm stars George Clooney as an intrepid fisherman who navigates his boat through a storm of deadly ferocity – a freakish confluence of weather fronts, gales and vast tides that defy all attempts at prediction, let alone control.  Today, our healthcare system is in the same perilous position as Clooney’s fragile boat in … Read more

‘Fear memory’ in PTSD could be suppressed, scientists say

Hope for PTSD patients as scientists discover how the brain forms ‘fear memory’ to link traumatic events to particular situations and trigger defensive behaviour ‘Fear memory’ formation involves neural connections between two brain regions Activity between the two regions increased in mice faced with ‘aversive stimuli’ Weakening these could erase fear memory for people who are living with … Read more

Family of second coronavirus victim to die in UK fear he could have passed on infection

The family of the grandfather in his 80s who died of coronavirus yesterday – the UK’s second fatality – fear he could have passed on the infection after he was left ‘coughing excessively’ on a ward for six hours.  The man died at Milton Keynes Hospital after he was admitted on March 3 with suspected pneumonia having recently … Read more

Greeks fear an influx of migrants after thousands clashed with police

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Europe will have to take its share of the migrant ‘burden’ as Greece today tried to fend off an ‘invasion’ of people after Turkey threw open its borders.     Greek police were today firing tear gas against crowds who were trying to cross the border, with some migrants … Read more