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‘It was huge for us’, says England after pivotal Spurs win before Arsenal duel
BETHANY ENGLAND admits it was a relief to deliver “a bit of magic” to help Tottenham end a run of nine losses on the bounce. The hotshot’s wonder strike saw her side claim maximum points with a 1-0 defeat of Leicester ten days before their duel with Arsenal. 4 BethanyContinue Reading
Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the ‘government-in-waiting’
Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls. He also boasts an increasingly rare biographical feature: a big job before he went into politics. But that also meant his entrance was relatively lateContinue Reading
Ukraine war: ‘false flag’ operations – long used as weapons of mass distraction under the rules of conflict
The alarmist tone of recent tit-for-tat reports from the war in Ukraine has refocused attention on so-called “false flag operations” and their legality under international law. At the beginning of March, Ukraine dismissed as “provocation” a Russian claim that Ukrainian “terrorists” or “sabotage groups” were behind a series of disputedContinue Reading
Ukraine war: how the west’s weak reaction to Crimea’s referendum paved the way for a wider invasion
A referendum was held in Crimea on March 16 2014, when the region was under military control, to ask voters whether they wanted to be part of Russia. The official result was a 96.7% vote for Russia. At the time Crimean public buildings were held by Russian soldiers, and theContinue Reading
Social pressures leave parents feeling judged for seeking help for sick children
Prostock-studio/Shutterstock As a parent, your primary concern is always to do the right thing for your child. No parent wants their child to suffer because they failed to seek help. But although protecting your child’s health is the primary social expectation you face as a parent of a sick child,Continue Reading
Bobby Caldwell dead aged 71
S inger Bobby Caldwell has died aged 71 following a long illness. The musician – who was best known for his hit song What You Won’t Do For Love – died on Tuesday at his home, with his wife Mary by his side. Sharing the news of his passing onContinue Reading
Gary Lineker tweet scandal shows how the BBC has struggled to adapt to the social media age
The BBC’s highest-paid presenter, Gary Lineker, will soon be back in action after being briefly suspended for what the broadcaster described as a breach of its impartiality guidelines. The former footballer’s tweet on March 7 described the wording of the new government policy on immigration as language “not dissimilar toContinue Reading
Vinnie Jones shocked me with X-rated insult when I first faced him for Man Utd
A MANCHESTER UNITED legend has recalled how he received an X-rated baptism of fire the first time he faced the notorious Wimbledon Crazy Gang from Vinnie Jones. This former Russian international winger was signed by Sir Alex Ferguson from Shakhtar Donetsk in 1991 for £650,000. 2 Andrei Kanchelskis moved toContinue Reading
COVID, bird flu, mpox – a virologist on why we’re seeing so many viruses emerge
Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock From the widespread outbreak of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in 2022, to the evolving bird flu situation, to recent cases of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, COVID isn’t dominating the headlines as much as it used to. Instead, we’ve been regularly hearing about outbreaks of newly emerging orContinue Reading
TikTok bans: what the evidence says about security and privacy concerns
The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, recently hinted that he may ban the social media application TikTok from devices used by government employees. His comments follow similar bans by the European Commission and US federal government. In the EU and US cases, security concerns were used as the justification forContinue Reading