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How Chelsea could line-up at Juventus with Ruben Loftus-Cheek set to be handed shock start but Mason Mount still out
THOMAS TUCHEL will take his Chelsea squad to Juventus without a number of big-name players. Mason Mount and Christian Pulisic are unlikely to be fit in time for the Blues‘ second Champions League group game of the season. The West Londoners beat Zenit St Petersburg 1-0 at Stamford Bridge inContinue Reading
Man Utd playmaker Juan Mata considering future due to lack of playing time
JUAN MATA is considering his Manchester United future amid concerns over his lack of playing time. Mata, 33, has been a popular figure at Old Trafford since signing for a then club-record fee of £37.1m from rivals Chelsea in January 2014. 2 Mata could be set to leave Old TraffordContinue Reading
What the world can learn from Bhutan’s rapid COVID vaccine rollout
NiarKrad/Shutterstock Nearly half the world’s population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But figures vary widely between countries. Many low and middle-income countries have barely started their vaccination campaigns. But the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan isn’t one of them. By the end of July, itContinue Reading
Visit by the 1903 Dreadnought motorcycle to Cornwall
The niece of its creator is able to see after 120 years her Uncles most famous creation still working. Date Friday 15th October Time 10.00- 12.00 Place Inn for All Seasons, off the old Redruth Bypass Please note that Mrs Hambly is a little reluctant to have too many interviewsContinue Reading
Cork couple reveal trauma of learning their baby’s organs were incinerated
Warning: The content below contains details which may be distressing A Cork couple has spoken of the trauma of learning that their baby’s organs were incinerated abroad without their knowledge or consent. An investigation is underway at Cork University Maternity Hospital after it emerged the organs of 18 babies sentContinue Reading
Labour conference: members aren’t quite tearing chunks out of each other but a distinct air of unease remains
Getting off the bus and walking to the Brighton Centre, the main venue for this year’s Labour conference, it was hard – impossible even – not to ponder on the pathetic fallacy. I’m not referring to a party that won only 202 seats in 2019 fooling itself into thinking itContinue Reading
Covid-19 may stay with us forever
Many scientists expect that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease. Does that mean accepting some deaths as inevitable?Continue Reading
Why the UK childcare system is at breaking point
Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this summer by Mumsnet (in partnership with other parenting and campaigning organisations) have honed in on some startling figures. Of the 2,047 respondents MumsnetContinue Reading
Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon review: it’s a must-see
Review at a glance T he centrepiece of this show is a beautifully shot video, made this year. It ends with archive footage of a young Theaster Gates telling an interviewer that he is “dying to do a short film about clay”. It took the 48 year old a whileContinue Reading
Global Britain is becoming a stooge of the US
The scenes as American and British troops withdrew from Afghanistan were heartbreaking. People desperate to leave the country they love, offering up their children for transportation to a more peaceful country, being crushed to death for a chance at freedom. Those horrific scenes were also visual confirmation of Britain’s waningContinue Reading