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EU vaccine rollout has been ‘a fiasco’ says former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt Guy Verhofstadt has called on Brussels to renegotiate its ‘ill-conceived’ contracts with vaccine manufacturers The MEP blamed the European Commission for shortages and slow rollout in EU countries in a video released on Saturday The EU has fallen behind highly-developed nations including … Read more
‘I hear you know about stocks?’: UK-based Robin Hood Society gains 33,000 Twitter followers after users confuse it with US trading app used by armchair investors behind Wall Street chaos UK’s World Wide Robin Hood Society promotes the legendary heroic outlaw It now has 37,000 Twitter followers after starting yesterday with less than 400 Traders … Read more
How grand, how admirable it sounded back in June when the European Union set up a Covid-19 vaccine-buying programme to pool the purchase power of all member states. This pan-European approach would, it was claimed, ‘ensure fair and equitable access for all across the EU’. Under the terms of the programme, individual countries were forbidden … Read more
Just three days ago, Matt Hancock was basking in the glory of Oxford University’s astonishing achievement. As its world-beating vaccine won approval from regulators, the Health Secretary toured the TV and radio studios, predicting that Britain’s coronavirus crisis would finally be over by Easter. After all, ministers had ordered 100million doses of the ‘game-changer’ AstraZeneca … Read more
Hilaria Baldwin has claimed that she hails from Spain, but a genealogist has weighed in to confirm that Boston-born Hillary Thomas-Hayward is anything but Spanish. Genealogist Dr. Adina Newman says there is ‘no Spain in sight’ after tracing Hilaria’s lineage back to England, Ireland, Germany, Quebec, modern day Slovakia and finally settling in New England. … Read more
Shame sniggering Sara Pascoe can’t see her Cuban trip’s a fiasco: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews weekend TV By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:56 GMT, 28 December 2020 | Updated: 01:57 GMT, 28 December 2020 Last Woman On Earth Rating: Back To The 80s Rating: Sara Pascoe on the pull is an experience to … Read more
Doctors, MPs and care chiefs have warned the Government that its vaccine programme could turn into a ‘shambles like the PPE fiasco’ if distribution issues with the rollout are not fixed. Hundreds of GP surgeries and hospitals are still waiting to receive doses of the Pfizer vaccine, while doctors warn they are having to cancel … Read more
Advertising agency WPP has admitted to understating its losses by hundreds of millions of pounds after an embarrassing accounting debacle. In a highly unusual error, it said its statutory losses were mis-stated by £301million for the first six months of this year. It means the record half-year loss of £2.6billion that the world’s largest advertising … Read more
A devastating report today lifts the lid on the cronyism and ineptitude that has characterised the Government’s £18billion rush to source PPE and other equipment during the coronavirus crisis. Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings were both drawn into the debacle after the spending watchdog said officials failed to consider potential conflicts of interests involving companies … Read more
Customer service fiasco at National Savings & Insurance rumbles on – seven weeks since we reported it was in meltdown By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 23:22 GMT, 14 November 2020 The customer service fiasco at National Savings & Insurance rumbles on – seven weeks … Read more