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Not the Last Stop Campaign
Suicide Prevention Bristol are proud to announce the launch of our “Not the Last Stop” Campaign. Between 9th July to 9th August 2021 Suicide Prevention Bristol recorded six separate journeys made in a taxi where the driver, unknown to them had taken someone to a known suicide location. To usContinue Reading
Scampi and Tart look tasty bets on a Sunday menu!
Freyabella looks a gilt-edged each-way opportunity, price-wise, to supplement recent course and distance gains in the Novice Stakes over five furlongs of Chelmsford polytrack this afternoon when there are also three turf-flat fixtures which should yield profit in set-weight races Experience is key for juveniles and Freyabella was successful, atContinue Reading
9/11 twenty years on: al-Qaida is defeated – but jihadism is here to stay
Maurice Savage / Alamy Stock Photo Twenty years ago, the terrorist group al-Qaida carried out the deadliest attack on US soil the world had ever seen. Overnight, al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden became the most notorious terrorist to date. Inspired by pan-Islamist ambitions and outraged by US foreign presence andContinue Reading
Ronaldo takes FIVE-naps-a-day… so how much do other sports stars sleep
BEING one of the most well known sporting icons on the planet is tiring work. But rather than sleep all night, Cristiano Ronaldo instead takes FIVE naps a day while Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson snoozes for just four hours to keep himself going. 17 Cristiano Ronaldo takes FIVE naps-a-day LastContinue Reading
9/11: how politicians and the media turned terrorism into an Islamic issue
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is important to reflect on the legacy that event – and the “war on terror” more broadly – has had for the way news media cover terrorism. Though we should be clear that terrorism as we define itContinue Reading
Cholesterol jab: why gene silencing drugs may work better than current treatments
The jab would be given twice a year. Girts Ragelis/ Shutterstock The NHS has very recently approved a new cholesterol-lowering jab which will be offered to 300,000 people over the next three years. The drug – inclisiran – will be administered twice a year as an injection. It will mainlyContinue Reading
Exposure of faked dishonesty study makes me proud to be a behavioural scientist
Lucky Raccoon/Shutterstock The story has a lot to recommend it: psychologist Dan Ariely, the author of a bestselling book on the behavioural science of dishonesty, retracts his study because the data was faked. No wonder it’s been picked up by the world’s media. Buzzfeed declared this “the latest blow toContinue Reading
COVID-19: further lockdowns unlikely but some winter restrictions are possible
On July 19 2021, nearly all legal restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19 were removed in England. A requirement to isolate at the request of NHS Track and Trace remains for people exposed to an infected person and who aren’t double vaccinated, but other control measures such asContinue Reading
Man Utd’s Ronaldo naps five times a day, while Dwayne Johnson snoozes for four hours… how much sports stars sleep
BEING one of the most well known sporting icons on the planet is tiring work. But rather than sleep all night, Cristiano Ronaldo instead takes FIVE naps a day while Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson snoozes for just four hours to keep himself going. 17 Cristiano Ronaldo takes FIVE naps-a-day LastContinue Reading
Anna Lytical is a TikTok star teaching coding in drag
Aiming to demystify STEM subjects – and bring much-needed diversity to the field – Anna Lytical helps coders get to grips with tricky conceptsContinue Reading