Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against Covid-19 mandates outside the General Motors (GM) Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Mathew Hatcher | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal appeals court has called President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses “fatally flawed”Continue Reading
SCOTLAND 0-0 SOUTH AFRICA 10. Elton Jantjies can kick this one into the corner and Scotland have another line-out to defend just outside their 22. Hooker Bongi Mbonambi will send this one in. Kolisi takes the ball out of the line-out and Etzebeth is able to get over the gain lineContinue Reading
Ireland has again recorded a high daily total of new Covid infections, with 4,642 cases notified. There are now 556 coronavirus patients in hospital, including 107 receiving treatment in intensive care units. HSE chief executive Paul Reid called for people to immediately reduce risky activities in order to improve theContinue Reading
TYSON FURY has put some of boxing’s top trainers on notice as he warns ‘I’m coming for your bloody fighters’ and vows to ‘take over the world’. The WBC and Ring magazine heavyweight champ is training younger brother Tommy for his December fight against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. 2 Parker describesContinue Reading
A ‘Full House’ yesterday following a few moderate days, proof that sticking by this column rigidly makes sense. I moaned about moderate jockeyship, lack of information from Newcastle racetrack about alterations to the tapeta surface and other factors because it’s upsetting to think readers/punters aren’t getting a good service. OfContinue Reading
The impact of climate change and how to respond to it is the defining political debate of our era. There are two forms this response can take – reacting to environmental disasters by providing financial and technical assistance to affected areas, or adapting to the effects of global heating byContinue Reading
h Threats from the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, to interrupt the flow of Russian gas to Europe are the clearest indications yet that he has no plans to back down from the rapidly escalating confrontation between Belarus and the EU over the presence of growing numbers of asylum seekersContinue Reading
UK health secretary Sajid Javid’s plans for vaccination requirements for frontline NHS workers has reignited the political and ethical debate over COVID passes. The requirement constitutes a kind of vaccine pass; without proof of vaccination, healthcare workers are prevented from continuing working in the NHS in a frontline role. OtherContinue Reading
Probably not… Tithi Luadthong/Shutterstock It has been over a year since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. And perhaps the most important lesson is that we were completely unprepared to face the debilitating virus. This raises some scary thoughts. What if the threat wasn’t COVID-19, but aContinue Reading
There’s a saying in cricket: “Strong Yorkshire, strong England”. It dates back to when many of the national men’s team originated from Yorkshire and the health of the county side was seen as indicative of the state of English cricket generally. Today another aspect of Yorkshire cricket is being heldContinue Reading
