The COVID vaccines are working. Data from Israel and Scotland shows that they are protecting people and may also be decreasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If it all holds up, people will be protected from severe disease, the amount of virus will progressively decrease, and we can trulyContinue Reading
Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has joined with Labour leader Keir Starmer in calling for a pay rise for NHS staff – calling them “Plymouth’s COVID heroes”. Now the small print of the Chancellor’s Budget, announced on Wednesday, is beginning to be understood, it has been revealed thatContinue Reading
The Banksy print that was burnt. Flickr/eddiedangerous, CC BY-SA A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork and burnt it. But instead of destroying the value of the art, they claim to have made it more valuable, because it was sold as a piece of blockchain art. TheContinue Reading
DisobeyArt/Shutterstock Do you remember where you were when you heard that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic? For many of us, that day – March 11 2020 – was the day that everything changed. Suddenly, a rumbling news story about a mystery illness became a matter of concern forContinue Reading
It is rare that a parliamentary panel into the creation and use of an internal government policy would get full-blown live media coverage, never mind an audience of thousands tuning in agog to hear the evidence. But a recent Scottish parliament hearing was not like any other held in HolyroodContinue Reading
Recording casualties during a conflict can provide a body of evidence of how violence has affected particular communities or groups, such as the Yazidis in Iraq and the Kurds in Syria. When the Islamic State entered Iraq in 2014, they immediately started committing gross human rights violations and displayed violenceContinue Reading
This research could change our understanding of the heart. Liya Graphics/ Shutterstock Around sixty times every minute, your heart beats, delivering nutrients and removing waste from every cell in your body. It has been doing this since you were in the womb – the heart forms 18 days into foetalContinue Reading
The idea of relocating Whitehall departments to the regions has a long but rather mundane history in the UK. Already, more than 80% of civil servants are based outside London – probably higher than most of us assume, given Britain’s highly centralised political system. If we exclude the Ministry ofContinue Reading
Houses as power stations. Shutterstock/Studio Harmony Homes are the places we spend most of our time, especially during lockdown. Heating your home in winter can be expensive, and comes at a huge environmental cost too. Technology to make homes more self sufficient could help the UK decarbonise, while also makeContinue Reading
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