I am just back from a misty bike ride – clears my head and gets me ready for the day. It also gives me time to reflect on how privileged we are to live in such a beautiful part of the world. We cycle along parts of the Green CircleContinue Reading
GOOD MORNING RED DEVILS FANS Real Madrid are confident of landing Paul Pogba on a free transfer next summer. The Manchester United midfielder’s deal at Old Trafford is due to expire at the end of this season. And reports in Spain say Real Madrid believe they can finally lure theContinue Reading
Haunted Dream makes strong appeal in the Nursery Handicap over ten furlongs of Chelmsford polytrack tonight when Tom Marquand becomes the fifth jockey in as many outings to partner this progressive Ed Dunlop-trained Oasis Dream gelding; career-best effort came last time in a juvenile handicap only 18 days ago. Good,Continue Reading
ARSENAL wonderkid Omari Hutchinson is knocking on the front door to the first team very loudly now. It seems that on a weekly basis, Gunners fans are getting treated to another moment of sensational skills by the attacking midfielder during an under-23 game for the club. 9 Arsenal U18 starContinue Reading
A key public health adviser to the Government has said the coronavirus situation in Ireland is “on a knife edge” amid rising infections and hospital admissions. Epidemiologist Professor Philip Nolan said the virus was spreading “subtly and slowly” through the vaccinated population, while he also called on the 300,000 peopleContinue Reading
cktravels.com/Shutterstock When Nobel prize-winner Simon Kuznets declared in 1934 that “the welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income”, he likely did not imagine that gross domestic product (GDP) would still be in use as shorthand for wellbeing and prosperity in the third decadeContinue Reading
T he Rolling Stones have dropped one of their biggest hits Brown Sugar from their US tour amid discomfort about the song’s references to slavery. There has been unease with the depictions of black women and slavery references in the song, which reached number one in the US in 1971.Continue Reading
As a species, we humans are inveterate pattern makers. We’re also plagued by recency bias – the tendency to give more weight to things that have only just happened. Hardly surprising, then, that when analysing party politics, we tend to take the results of the latest elections and try toContinue Reading
a35mmporhora/Shutterstock Depression and anxiety disorders increased by over a quarter globally in 2020, according to a recent review of 48 scientific papers. But although there’s been an obvious negative trend during the pandemic, deteriorating mental health hasn’t been inevitable, and people haven’t been affected equally. In our recent study, weContinue Reading
Turning down the heating just 1C in a room can produce significant savings, our energy expert says. Syda Productions/Shutterstock The price of gas and electricity has been increasing sharply on the back of energy shortages. This is mainly due to a squeeze on gas supplies at a time when manufacturing,Continue Reading
