Go Bears Go is worth chancing as an each-way proposition, price-wise, for a compelling group one Dewhurst Stakes over seven furlongs of ‘good to soft’ Newmarket this afternoon and I’ve two reasons for ’tilting at windmills!’ Rossa Ryan, a raging ‘favourite’ of this column, will be aboard Go Bears GoContinue Reading
FORMER Chelsea frontman Tammy Abraham is set to start for the Three Lions in tonight’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra, according to Sky Sports. The 24-year-old has impressed since his £34million switch to Roma in the summer. 1 Abraham (L) in England trainingCredit: Getty Abraham has scored four times andContinue Reading
shutterstock Eric Crudup/Shutterstock It is a little-known fact that humans have not one but two immune systems. The first, the biophysical immune system – the one we’ve all heard much about – responds to infections as they enter the body, detecting and eliminating intruders such as the coronavirus. The secondContinue Reading
People walk at a pedestrian crossing along the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore on September 7, 2021. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore announced Saturday it will be opening new travel lanes for vaccinated visitors from 8 more countries. It came as its Prime MinisterContinue Reading
Basilico Studio Stock/Shutterstock In the UK over the last few weeks, there have been a growing number of reports of people testing positive for COVID on a lateral flow test (LFT) but then negative on a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. This stands out because we’ve been led to believeContinue Reading
Courtship behaviour of a male and female hippopotamus in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, showing the larger head and tusk sizes of the adult male on left. Graeme Shannon, Author provided Male hippopotamuses are an unusual size. Among mammals, males are usually much larger than females, but in hippos the sexesContinue Reading
When I recently explained why teaching grammar in primary school still matters, Radio 4’s Today programme invited me to debate the importance of standard English. My opponent was Nevile Gwynne, a British private tutor, author and, as presenter Nick Robinson put it, a “stickler for the right sort of grammar”.Continue Reading
A nyone who has had builders in over the last few months, with the associated availability nightmares, the doubled prices and the scarcity of materials, will feel sympathy with Eva Langret. Tomorrow, the artistic director of Frieze London opens the organisation’s first permanent gallery space at No. 9 Cork StreetContinue Reading
In 1993, Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev used part of his Nobel peace prize money to help set up the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, buying the publication its first computers. Nearly 30 years later, the paper has another Nobel peace prize in its history. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, wasContinue Reading
Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to the bitter seven-year civil war in Yemen which has killed an estimated quarter of a million people and left millions more homeless. On September 21, officials from Saudi Arabia andContinue Reading
