Judicial Law, 3/1, gave me immense satisfaction when beating odds-on Gamaret at Catterick on New Years’ Day and realistically that’s what this column is all about, chancing against ‘shorties’ with a view to profiting with little risk attached. On the time-handicap Judicial Lady was the only possible serious rival toContinue Reading
When 17-year-old Margaret Whigham made her society debut in 1930, resplendent in turquoise in a sea of young women dressed in traditional white, she was an instant sensation. Named London’s “debutante of the year” (one report said she was “a thoroughbred in a field of hacks”) she would be laudedContinue Reading
zstock/Shutterstock If the pandemic had happened ten years ago, what would it have looked like? Doubtless there would have been many differences, but probably the most striking would have been the relative lack of genomic sequencing. This is where the entire genetic code – or “genome” – of the coronavirusContinue Reading
Clovis spearheads. wikimedia, CC BY-SA For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A million years ago, primitive humans sometimes used fire, but with difficulty. Then,Continue Reading
RIOT police armed with batons and shields clashed with thousands of anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch capital today. Crowds gathered in Amsterdam‘s Museum Square to object against Covid-19 measures and vaccinations – despite a country-wide ban on group meet-ups. Getty Images – Getty A police dog attacks a demonstrator protestingContinue Reading
Schools, colleges and creches will reopen later this month despite record numbers of Covid-19 cases in Ireland, Eamon Ryan has said. The Green Party leader said on Sunday that be expected schools to reopen as planned in the coming days, even as the Omicron variant continues to spread across theContinue Reading
A BRENTFORD fan has been arrested on suspicion of making a racist and homophobic comment at their recent defeat to Manchester City. The Bees have banned the supporter while police carry out their investigation into the incident which happened last Wednesday. 1 The alleged abuse took place during Manchester City’sContinue Reading
Jacob Lund/Shutterstock We are in a crisis now – and omicron has made it harder to imagine the pandemic ending. But it will not last forever. When the COVID outbreak is over, what do we want the world to look like? In the early stages of the pandemic – fromContinue Reading
Domandlouis will not come as a surprise if able to ‘ruffle feathers’ of much-better fancied rivaLs in an eight-runner Novices’ Hurdle over two and a half miles around Ayr today when the number one Scottish circuit will probably be demanding; in the United Kingdom there is ‘soft’ and there isContinue Reading
Review at a glance Things are ominous from the off in this new BBC six-parter. The music is brooding; the landscape, arid and Australian, is bleak; the protagonist, played by Jamie Dornan, is stony-faced and irritable. And within minutes, our man is hurtling through the outback in a rickety oldContinue Reading
