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Andrew Bridgen: how anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
Rindang Art/Shutterstock MP Andrew Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative party on January 11 for persistent misinformation about COVID vaccines, including numerous false claims around their safety. The final straw appears to have been his comments comparing the vaccination programme to the Holocaust. With more than 13 billion doses administeredContinue Reading
Ronaldo AND Messi net in thrilling clash in PSG’s mid-season tour
LIONEL MESSI wasted no time in stealing the limelight on Cristiano Ronaldo’s big day in Saudi Arabia. Ronaldo had touched the ball just once, a throw-in, when his old nemesis opened the scoring inside three minutes. 4 Lionel Messi opened the scoring with a neat finish in the 3rd minuteCredit:Continue Reading
China’s population decline is a result of decades of botched family planning measures and will have global implications
China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years and is set to be reduced by half by the end of the century. After declining for some years, China is now in what a government official called an “era of negative population growth”, with the national birth rateContinue Reading
Cartier Beams That Diamond Ring Right to Your Finger
The luxury brand embraces augmented reality retail with an in-store gadget that renders pieces of jewelry on your hands in 4K.Continue Reading
Sundance Film Festival: Our selection of the festival’s most anticipated films
S undance Film Festival is just around the corner, taking place between January 19 and January 29 in Utah’s Salt Lake City. Now America’s largest independent film festival, Sundance is one of the most important events on any film-lover’s calendar: as the first major festival of the film festival circuit,Continue Reading
How the Fifa20 video game reproduces the racial stereotypes embedded within football
Lutsenko_Oleksandr | Shutterstock EA Sports’ Fifa football videogame series is arguably the most successful sports gaming franchise of all time. Since its debut in 1993, it has sold over 260 million copies across 29 iterations. This position was reaffirmed in 2022, with its latest instalment, Fifa23, reported as the UK’sContinue Reading
Ukraine war: why Poland is piling pressure on allies to increase military support for Kyiv
Poland's president Andrzej Duda. Reuters/Alamy Polish president Andrzej Duda has been putting pressure on Nato allies to support Ukraine with more tanks at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is the latest attempt by Duda to rally other countries, and particularly Germany, to support Ukraine with heavy armaments. DudaContinue Reading
Ukraine war: supply of advanced tanks will give Kyiv an edge over Russia and move it closer to Nato
When he appeared before the UK’s House of Commons Defence Committee in November 2021 to defend his government’s cuts to the armed forces, the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, declared that “the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over”. Committee chairman Tobias Elwood notedContinue Reading
David Carrick: the vetting processes that missed a serial rapist in the Met police
Ian_Stewart / Shutterstock A few weeks ago, I wrote for The Conversation to try to explain why so many men get away with rape. It is now clear that one of those men was a London police officer, PC David Carrick. Carrick has admitted to more than 40 offences ofContinue Reading
Alzheimer’s: blood biomarker may help identify the disease ten years before symptoms start
Though this genetic form of Alzheimer's only affects around 1% of the population, it provides useful information on how the disease progresses. Atthapon Raksthaput/ Shutterstock Though Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 55 million people worldwide, there’s still no cure for the condition – and treatment options are limited. While recentContinue Reading