From a sporting perspective, the Tokyo Olympics were a massive success for Japan. Finishing third behind the Olympic behemoths of the US and China, Japan secured a record 27 gold medals. Yet, as the closing ceremony reached a crescendo, on the Tokyo streets ambulances were taking patients from hospital toContinue Reading
Everything I Do/Shutterstock Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are unlikely to even remember when or how they picked up this useful, apparently automatic skill. Yet when you think about it, counting is a remarkable invention. It helped early humans to trade, apportion food and organise fledgling civilisations, layingContinue Reading
Victoria Grove is a confident call to make it third time lucky in the nine-runner Fillies’ Novice Stakes over a mile of ‘good to soft’ Thirsk, one of my absolute ‘favourite’ North Yorkshire racecourses which represented tremendous ambiance when attending more than two-hundred and fifty meetings annually.. They were wonderfulContinue Reading
Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock The UK medicines regulator has just approved a new COVID-19 treatment. Branded Ronapreve in the UK and REGEN-COV in the US, the drug was developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals with Roche. It first grabbed headlines in October 2020 when President Trump received it during his COVID-19 infection. AlreadyContinue Reading
The Taliban on patrol in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in late August 2021. EPA In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to two Afghan experts about the origins of the Taliban and what’s happened over the last 20 years that enabled the group to retake control ofContinue Reading
GARETH SOUTHGATE has been left shocked by the levels of abuse he received for urging youngsters to get jabbed. The England manager revealed yesterday he has suffered a backlash after posting a video last month – and the criticism was greater than anything he received concerning Euro 2020. 1 GarethContinue Reading
Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock The UK medicines regulator has just approved a new COVID-19 treatment. Branded Ronapreve in the UK and REGEN-COV in the US, the drug was developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals with Roche. It first grabbed headlines in October 2020 when President Trump received it during his COVID-19 infection. AlreadyContinue Reading
Rambuso Creek, almost a shock 18/1 winner on debut three weeks ago, is strongly-fancied to go one better and confirm placings with another ‘first-up’ runner, Ravenglass, in the thirteen-runner Novice Stakes over six furlongs of ‘good’ ground Carlisle this afternoon; should be fascinating. Kevin Ryan’s charge charged through over aContinue Reading
Taliban patrol the streets of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in late August 2021. EPA In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to two Afghan experts about the origins of the Taliban and what’s happened over the last 20 years that enabled the group to retake control ofContinue Reading
Kittrat Roekburi/Shutterstock For many people, the social restrictions experienced during lockdown will have long-lasting effects. These include stress, depression, insomnia, fear, anger, frustration, boredom and stigma associated with quarantine. But during the pandemic, NHS staff had to face all these things and deal with working on the frontline. As aContinue Reading
