‘Foolish’ men spark three-hour rescue when they ignore lockdown to get lost in old Wiltshire mine

Cave-idiots! ‘Foolish’ men spark three-hour rescue when they ignore lockdown to get lost in old mine shaft at night without proper clothes or gear Firefighters, police and Ministry of Defence police were alerted at 1am Thursday The four men got lost in former stone mine near village of Box in Wiltshire Dorset and Wiltshire Fire … Read more

IAN LADYMAN: Southgate left looking foolish after picking Maguire but will his players ever learn?

By 5.30pm on Tuesday night, most if not all of what Gareth Southgate had earlier said about Harry Maguire had been rendered completely and spectacularly redundant. The England manager had spoken at length during the afternoon about his faith in the 27-year-old and in the version of events the Manchester United captain had presented to … Read more

SPECIAL REPORT: Forget Donald Trump’s foolish tweets – malaria pills aren’t the magic bullet

Desperate Britons are putting their lives at risk by taking anti-malaria tablets in a ‘misguided’ attempt to fight Covid-19, experts warned last night. They dismissed claims by French researchers that the decades-old drugs could ‘cure’ patients and called a controversial study published last month that appeared to show benefits ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘dangerous’. The pills, chloroquine … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: This Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and economy crippled

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone.  You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone … Read more