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‘Barca are back’ – Barcelona confirm Haaland interest and issue transfer warning
JOAN LAPORTA reckons Barcelona are ready to go to battle with Europe’s biggest teams for the signature of Erling Haaland. The Nou Camp president claims his club will be a transfer force to be reckoned with as his side looks to rival Chelsea and Liverpool for the striker’s services. BarcelonaContinue Reading
No ‘Mystery’ where this ‘Love’ is concerned!
Judicial Law, 3/1, gave me immense satisfaction when beating odds-on Gamaret at Catterick on New Years’ Day and realistically that’s what this column is all about, chancing against ‘shorties’ with a view to profiting with little risk attached. On the time-handicap Judicial Lady was the only possible serious rival toContinue Reading
The true story behind A Very British Scandal and the Duchess of Argyll
When 17-year-old Margaret Whigham made her society debut in 1930, resplendent in turquoise in a sea of young women dressed in traditional white, she was an instant sensation. Named London’s “debutante of the year” (one report said she was “a thoroughbred in a field of hacks”) she would be laudedContinue Reading
How COVID-19 transformed genomics and changed the handling of disease outbreaks forever
zstock/Shutterstock If the pandemic had happened ten years ago, what would it have looked like? Doubtless there would have been many differences, but probably the most striking would have been the relative lack of genomic sequencing. This is where the entire genetic code – or “genome” – of the coronavirusContinue Reading
How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution
Clovis spearheads. wikimedia, CC BY-SA For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A million years ago, primitive humans sometimes used fire, but with difficulty. Then,Continue Reading
Riot cops clash with protesters as police dogs attack & water cannons deployed during anti-lockdown march in Amsterdam
RIOT police armed with batons and shields clashed with thousands of anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch capital today. Crowds gathered in Amsterdam‘s Museum Square to object against Covid-19 measures and vaccinations – despite a country-wide ban on group meet-ups. Getty Images – Getty A police dog attacks a demonstrator protestingContinue Reading
Schools, colleges and creches ‘to reopen as planned’ despite Covid case rates
Schools, colleges and creches will reopen later this month despite record numbers of Covid-19 cases in Ireland, Eamon Ryan has said. The Green Party leader said on Sunday that be expected schools to reopen as planned in the coming days, even as the Omicron variant continues to spread across theContinue Reading
Brentford fan arrested and banned from games for racially abusing Man City star
A BRENTFORD fan has been arrested on suspicion of making a racist and homophobic comment at their recent defeat to Manchester City. The Bees have banned the supporter while police carry out their investigation into the incident which happened last Wednesday. 1 The alleged abuse took place during Manchester City’sContinue Reading
Life after COVID: most people don’t want a return to normal – they want a fairer, more sustainable future
Jacob Lund/Shutterstock We are in a crisis now – and omicron has made it harder to imagine the pandemic ending. But it will not last forever. When the COVID outbreak is over, what do we want the world to look like? In the early stages of the pandemic – fromContinue Reading
‘Rustler’ a strong fancy to make it third time lucky!
Domandlouis will not come as a surprise if able to ‘ruffle feathers’ of much-better fancied rivaLs in an eight-runner Novices’ Hurdle over two and a half miles around Ayr today when the number one Scottish circuit will probably be demanding; in the United Kingdom there is ‘soft’ and there isContinue Reading