Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga has announced he will not seek re-election as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) next month, which will effectively end his tenure in the top job after only one year. What will this mean for Japanese politics with a general election due laterContinue Reading
Nightclubs in Scotland will require vaccine certification for entry soon. Piotr Piatrouski/Shutterstock The benefits of a certification scheme, in terms of a public health intervention, in terms of incentivising vaccination, those benefits outweigh the concerns that still remain. Humza Yousaf MSP September 2 2021 Those were the words of theContinue Reading
Elymas finished two and a half lengths ahead of Westmorian when they placed sixth and eighth respectively in the six furlongs race won by Maybe Even Never at Thirsk last month; today my preference is the former in an intriguing fourteen-runner Novice Stakes over six furlongs of Newcastle tapeta, bestContinue Reading
COVID-19 in the classroom: how to go back to school safely. Halfpoint/Shutterstock As many children head back to school, we look at what really works to help stop COVID-19 transmission in the classroom in this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast. And we hear about new research into what’s happeningContinue Reading
Point Lynas is strongly-fancied for the Novice Stakes over a mile of ‘good to firm’ Salisbury today on the strength of a ‘career-best’ effort in the fiercely-competitive seven furlongs Nursery Handicap at York last month, won by Harrow; significantly trainer Charles Hills has booked Ryan Noore, the seventh different jockeyContinue Reading
GROUP B table toppers Spain and Sweden go head to head as the two sides look to lay claim to the automatic World Cup qualifying place. The two sides were in the same group at Euro 2020 and it was the Swedes who got the upper hand over the summerContinue Reading
estherpoon/Shutterstock As soon as the UK’s vaccination strategy started proving successful earlier this year, arguments in favour of sharing excess COVID-19 vaccines with other countries began to appear. Yet over six months later, barely any vaccines have been sent overseas from Britain, despite it having ordered over half a billionContinue Reading
The UK has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. What were already tight rules have become progressively more restrictive following tragic events such as the 1987 shootings in Hungerford, England and the 1996 shootings in Dunblane, Scotland. In most circumstances it is illegal to own a firearmContinue Reading
With the withdrawal of US and allied forces and final evacuation flights having departed, it’s becoming difficult and dangerous for most Afghans to leave the country. Evacuation flights were only available to select groups, notably foreign nationals, Afghans employed by western organisations, and those most at risk of Taliban reprisal.Continue Reading
During the pandemic, the pejorative term “snake-oil salesman” has been bandied about a lot. It’s been used, perhaps with a tinge of 1980s nostalgia, to describe convicted fraudster and serial opportunist Jim Bakker, whose colloidal Silver Solution required only some deft rebranding to become a specific curative for COVID-19. ForContinue Reading
