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Fans chant Messi’s name for 90 mins but Depay shows there is life after icon
BARCELONA proved there is life after Lionel Messi to win the Joan Gamper trophy following a dominant win over Juventus. The LaLiga giants bid goodbye to the legendary Argentine earlier on Sunday but the players still at the club gave the fans something to smile about. 4 Barcelona showed fansContinue Reading
COVID: what happens if a far more lethal coronavirus emerges in pets?
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
Animal sentience bill is necessary for the UK to be a true world leader in animal welfare
alanisko/Shutterstock The UK has a proud history as a leader in animal welfare, passing one of the world’s first animal protection laws in 1822, to prevent the cruel treatment of cattle. While such laws have continued to improve – the Animal Welfare Act 2006 introduced a requirement to provide forContinue Reading
Japan’s constitutional dilemma: only men allowed on the Chrysanthemum throne
The question of who will succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne – the Japanese monarchy – when there is a shortage of male heirs is in play again after the panel set up to look into the succession recently ruled out allowing a woman to ascend the throne. While the emperorContinue Reading
Why thieves using e-scooters are targeting farms to steal £3,000 quad bikes, and what farmers can do to prevent it
Quad bikes and GPS systems are being stolen from farms. Michael Garner/Shutterstock Farm vehicles have long been considered an easy target for thieves because of poor security measures, such as universal keys that can be used to start any tractor and the failure to use immobilisers. But security is nowContinue Reading
Ascending is on the way up, could be a star!
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
Cyprus: what is Elam, the far-right nationalist party seeking success after the demise of Golden Dawn?
A new shadow looms over Cypriot politics. Not much is known about the country’s far right, but Elam’s recent gains in the May 2021 general election put the party on the map for good. Elam originally started in 2008 as a sub-division of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn butContinue Reading
Coronavirus business loans: some directors may have defrauded billions from UK taxpayers
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
Pingdemic staff shortages: how business can cope with isolating employees
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
Factories of the future: we’re spending heavily to give workers skills they won’t need by 2030
'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