GOOD MORNING ARSENAL FANS Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says he has no plans to sell Alexandre Lacazette in January despite the risk of losing the player for nothing at the end of the season. The £54million striker is in the final year of his £180,000-a-week contract and has not beenContinue Reading
Kalyptra is a serious rival to forecast odds-on chance Mon Frere in an eight-runner Novices’ Hurdle over two miles of ‘good to soft’ Wincanton today when the only other English fixture is scheduled for Aintree on a similar surface; each-way ‘thieves’ will be praying all ‘decs’ stand their ground andContinue Reading
PEP GUARDIOLA told a Brighton steward to come and sit with him in the dugout, prior to Manchester City’s 4-1 win over the Seagulls yesterday. The animated City boss patted the chair next to him as the initially bewildered staff member looked in his direction. 2 Pep Guardiola chats toContinue Reading
Nuclear power, toted by some as a “zero-emission clean energy source”, has somewhat of a dirty reputation in Ireland. The State is one of a few in the world with a ban on nuclear power for electricity generation, and there is little mention of the energy source in Irish plansContinue Reading
High levels of drinking during the pandemic can cause health problems. Opolja/Shutterstock Increased drinking during the pandemic has created a group of people who don’t see themselves as alcoholics but have difficulty abstaining from alcohol for any length of time. This group, starting to be called grey-area drinkers, are atContinue Reading
Jorge Gonzalez Were dinosaurs unfeeling scaly brutes or caring, well behaved and intelligent? This debate has continued since dinosaurs were first discovered 200 years ago, and has spilled over into the movies and popular consciousness. In seeking to answer questions like this, palaeontologists generally look at the nearest living relatives,Continue Reading
Artist Nora Al-Badri is using deepfakes for good – to free historical artefacts from museums and reinvent them for the digital ageContinue Reading
H ours before our interview Neil Gaiman, the UK’s leading purveyor of fantasy across comics, novels, TV and cinema, tweets that he’s “about to do something so remarkable and unlikely that I have decided to wear my lucky Batman underpants”. He’s not referring to our chat. “I had my DesertContinue Reading
It was Jan. 24, 2020 when BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin knew that Covid-19 was likely to become a global pandemic. Though it was over a month and a half before the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic, Sahin met with his wife, BioNTech’s co-founder and chief medical officer ÖzlemContinue Reading
Bayside Boy, under regular jockey David Egan, merits each-way support in an eight-runner Venturum Futurity Trophy Stakes over the straight ‘good to soft’ mile of Doncaster today; last of the ‘juvenile classics’ which lists several high-profile winners including Motivator and Camelot, dramatically beaten on Town Moor by my 25/1 winningContinue Reading
