The Taliban recently announced it will establish a battalion of suicide attackers as part of the national army of Afghanistan. These “martyrdom brigades” will be “under the control of the ministry of defence and will be used for special operations,” according to Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. This was condemned asContinue Reading
So, Simon, how did you become interested in Ann Jefferies? I’ve often written about Cornish folklore as a folklore historian and particularly Cornish fairy and pixylore. Ann Jefferies is special because she offers us, not our earliest evidence for Cornish fairies, but our earliest good evidence. She is also ourContinue Reading
Mileage fraud is one of the most common scams within the used car market. It illegally inflates the price of a used vehicle and ruins the car ownership experience. As a recent study revealed, the buyers of premium German cars are at the greatest risk of purchasing a car withContinue Reading
St Margaret’s Hospice is on the search for green-fingered supporters who have stunning gardens to open them to the public this summer. The hospice’s Glorious Gardens campaign raised over £11,000 last year and this year they are hoping to encourage even more gardens, allotments, farms, and orchards to open toContinue Reading
HARRY MAGUIRE needs to step up as captain at Old Trafford. And if he can’t unite the Manchester United dressing room then he should hand back the famous armband. 3 Harry Maguire needs to be more like Roy Keane or Bryan Robson if he’s to succeed as Man Utd captainCredit:Continue Reading
Stock Footage Inc/Shutterstock Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug controversially touted as a cure for COVID despite a lack of robust evidence, is creating renewed interest as a potential treatment for omicron. The discussion has been sparked by a new study from the University of Glasgow, which is yet to be publishedContinue Reading
Stormy Ocean will, hopefully, give veteran jockey Robert Winston a much-needed, morale-boosting success, in the eleven-runner Novice Stakes over the straight mile of Newcastle tapeta this afternoon, even though the twice-raced Frankel colt hasn’t been out since finishing a creditable fourth at Newmarket twenty-seven weeks ago to stable-companion Noble Truth.Continue Reading
Video games are being split into titles geared toward fun and those that beguile us into productivity with points, rewards, and even NFTs.Continue Reading
The highly transmissible omicron variant is going to be a “very difficult challenge” for Hong Kong as the city sticks to its zero-Covid policy, a former U.S. diplomat told CNBC. There will likely be more opposition to “draconian measures” given that the variant appears to be less dangerous, said KurtContinue Reading
Following mounting pressure and incontrovertible evidence, prime minister Boris Johnson has for the first time admitted that he attended a gathering in the garden of Downing Street in May 2020 – during the UK’s first national COVID lockdown and at a time when group gatherings were prohibited. Johnson started hisContinue Reading
