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A double-dip recession in the Eurozone is ‘increasingly inevitable’ due to Covid-19, with France among the countries most seriously hit, experts have warned. The slowdown in Eurozone business activities intensified in January as the pandemic continued to batter the economy, a key survey showed on Friday. The closely watched PMI index compiled by IHS Markit … Read more
A double-dip recession in the Eurozone is ‘increasingly inevitable’ due to Covid-19, with France among the countries most seriously hit, experts have warned. The slowdown in Eurozone business activities intensified in January as the pandemic continued to batter the economy, a key survey showed on Friday. The closely watched PMI index compiled by IHS Markit … Read more
I live in England and am a Londoner by choice, although I have lived in all three other capital cities – Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff Like most Scots of my generation, I have several identities. Born in Scotland, I am from a Scottish and Ulster unionist family stretching back to the 17th Century. I live … Read more
A total national lockdown is inevitable, a SAGE expert is warning today, as 20million more people across England this morning wake-up to life under Tier 4 rules – imposed after the UK recorded its worst daily Covid death toll since April. Doctor Mike Tildesley, a member of the scientific modelling committee, which advises the government … Read more
My heart sank to my boots at the news this weekend that all of London and most of the south-east of England, as well as cities such as Portsmouth and Peterborough, were being plunged with almost immediate effect into the most draconian restriction tier yet. Be under no illusions. For many tens of thousands of … Read more
The 2011 film Contagion now seems eerily prescient when it comes to depicting a modern pandemic, given its parallels to the current COVID-19 outbreak. And the movie’s star Jude Law has addressed the similarities during an interview with GQ on Thursday. ‘There was absolutely the sense that this was going to happen,’ said the 47-year-old … Read more
George Osborne today stuck the boot into Boris Johnson over the Government’s handling of the free school meals row as he said Marcus Rashford had ‘nutmegged’ the Prime Minister and a U-turn is now ‘inevitable’. The ex-chancellor said the Manchester United and England footballer had made the Cabinet ‘look like a school yard football team’ … Read more
Boris Johnson last night warned that Britain was ‘seeing a second wave coming in’ as he contemplated six months of ‘on-off’ restrictions to tackle the upsurge in coronavirus cases. The Prime Minister, who fears the country is six weeks behind Spain and France, said it was ‘inevitable’ that a second wave would reach the UK. He … Read more
The Prime Minister said a second lockdown was the ‘last thing anybody wants’ but revealed his administration was considering whether it needed to ‘go further’ than the current national restrictions that were put in place this week Boris Johnson tonight admitted it was ‘inevitable’ that a second wave of coronavirus would batter the UK, as … Read more
ITV’s chief executive today warned it is ‘inevitable’ that its schedule will continue to be packed with repeats after the coronavirus pandemic laid waste to the summer sporting calendar and forced bosses to axe hits such as Love Island. Dame Carolyn McCall said ITV has resumed about 38 productions, and staff are being brought back … Read more