Многие научные открытия продолжают оспариваться политиками и частью общественности еще долгое время после достижения научного консенсуса. Например, почти треть американцев до сих пор не согласны с тем, что выбросы ископаемого топлива вызывают изменение климата, даже несмотря на то, что научное сообщество пришло к консенсусу, который они сделали несколько десятилетий назад.Continue Reading
Oisin Murphy, dual Champion jockey, deserves due recognition in this column, which places great emphasis on horse-riding skills, following a fabulous first week of August, and his sensational blitz has nigh on sealed a a hat-trick for the Irishman who, as a lad of 17, first came to light tenContinue Reading
Real Moment/Shutterstock The recent suggestion that ministers may have to consider culling or vaccinating animals to prevent the coronavirus from picking up another dangerous mutation and jumping back to humans may sound like sudden panic, but it’s just part of a long debate among scientists. Evidence that cats could beContinue Reading
Ascending will be difficult to beat if he stays seven furlongs of ‘soft’ Leicester ground today, having shaped well at the Midlands venue on a contrasting ‘good to firm’ surface ten weeks ago; Clive Cox is not a guesser and the Lambourn trainer, along with stable jockey, Adam Kirby, willContinue Reading
From pandemic to scamdemic. HM Treasury, CC BY-SA In the early days of the pandemic, UK chancellor Rishi Sunak announced business-loan schemes as part of the government’s suite of measures to keep businesses on their feet. This offered businesses the chance to borrow tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
STEKLO/Shutterstock Despite the lifting of most legal COVID-19 restrictions on July 19, the pandemic’s effect on the health, economy and wellbeing of the English public is far from over. The latest development is in the form of the “pingdemic” –- the term referring to the hundreds of thousands of peopleContinue Reading
'The only living worker left'. metamorworks “This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his recent speech on “levelling up”. There is still a fair amount of uncertainty about exactly what the UK prime minister’s plan to level up the regions will involve, but manufacturingContinue Reading
Singapore looks like one of the big winners from Brexit. joyfull Seven months after Britain’s exit from the EU, the chilly effects on UK trade are being felt. Total exports of UK goods and services were down by 13% (£36 billion) and imports down 22% (£66 billion) for January toContinue Reading
Shutterstock/wavebreakmedia As restrictions are gradually lifted, travelling abroad will be a high priority for many people. But for a disabled person, getting away on holiday can seem like a distant dream – with or without a pandemic. People with disabilities are still subjected to systematic discrimination when it comes toContinue Reading
The EU has announced it will suspend its legal action against the UK for allegedly breaching the Northern Ireland protocol by unilaterally extending grace periods related to trade between Great Britain and the province. The intention is for both parties to discuss realistic and practical solutions to the trade issuesContinue Reading
