Dr Clive Dix says we should treat the virus like flu Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid should be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu, and ministers should end mass-vaccination after the booster campaign, the former chairman of the UK’s vaccine taskforce has said. […]
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‘Time machine’ will allow astronomers to study the beginning of the universe shortly after the Big Bang Nasa engineers yesterday completed the final unfolding of the huge primary mirror of the agency’s James Webb space telescope. The manoeuvre was the final step of the $10bn observatory’s two-week deployment phase that […]
Globetrotting presenter hopes ‘value’ of programmes offsets their carbon footprint Explorer and television presenter Simon Reeve is troubled by the carbon footprint of the travel documentaries he makes and sometimes feels a hypocrite, he has confessed. Talking candidly about his climate change guilt and also reflecting on his unhappy teenage […]
Judge rules William ‘Roddie’ Bryan can seek parole after 30 years while Travis and Gregory McMichael cannot A judge in Georgia sentenced Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan to life in prison on Friday for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was running through their […]
Senior lawyers question motives of attorney general, who says she could refer acquittal to court of appeal Senior lawyers have accused the attorney general for England and Wales of politically-driven meddling after she announced that she could refer the acquittal of the Colston Four to the court of appeal. Suella […]
Updates from the New Year’s Test at the SCG The Spin: subscribe to our weekly cricket newsletter Any thoughts? Email Sam or tweet @sjjperry I’d be staying up while Bairstow is there, big time. I don’t know how “big time” amplifies it in any way, and yet, there it is. […]
Inquiry into government gatherings widened to include former aide’s allegation and photographed cheese-and-wine get-together Coronavirus – latest updates Dominic Cummings has alleged there was a lockdown-breaking party in the Downing Street garden five days after Boris Johnson and up to 17 staff were pictured with wine and cheese. The prime […]
Tory peer recommended PPE Medpro to Cabinet Office before it was formally registered, it has emerged The Conservative peer Michelle Mone referred a business to the Cabinet Office for potential multimillion pound PPE contracts before it had even been incorporated as a company, it has emerged. The business, PPE Medpro, […]
PM sought funds for flat refurb from Tory donor while promising to consider plans for mystery event Boris Johnson has been accused of corruption after it emerged that he sought funds for his flat refurbishment from a Conservative donor while promising to consider plans for a mystery “great exhibition”. The […]
Exclusive: Leaked files suggest Mone and her husband were involved in business given £200m contracts Leaked files appear to suggest the Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband, Douglas Barrowman, were secretly involved in a PPE business that was awarded more than £200m in government contracts after she referred it […]