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
With the Taliban back in Kabul, thousands of Afghan nationals who serviced the ousted government, the US and its allies are desperately attempting to seek asylum. Many attempted to board US jets at an airport in Kabul, some even clinging to the outside of aircraft as they took off. VideosContinue Reading
Dora Penny, despite being doubly-penalised, is clear ‘best-in’ on my time-handicap for the 2-y-o Restricted Novices Stakes over six furlongs of Wolverhampton tapeta tonight which will be staged under glorious floodlighting; it’s quite a sight, in stark contrast to forty-one years ago this month when I drove to Dunstall ParkContinue Reading
Halfpoint/Shutterstock When COVID-19 arrived, it quickly became clear that older age was the biggest risk factor for developing severe disease. Indeed, there are few diseases for which age is so clearly the most important risk factor. NHS doctors have seen this daily. There have been over 131,000 UK deaths fromContinue Reading
Battaash, why didn’t he run in the ‘Nunthorpe’ and indeed why isn’t he in training? There is nothing wrong with the big-strapping seven-year-old and so the questions have to be asked; can you really retire a gelding which loved racing and was undeniably the best and most imperious sprinter around?Continue Reading
The most powerful tool for combating COVID is not a drug or a vaccine, but a method. A randomised trial is the best way to discover what works and what doesn’t. This method underlies much of the progress in modern medicine, including the development of effective COVID vaccines. However, developingContinue Reading
