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Young people left isolated and lonely during coronavirus lockdowns are being drawn to far-Right terrorism, police say Amount of Right-wing material flagged to investigators rose by 43 per cent Fears lonely young people isolated in pandemic more likely drawn to terrorism Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit told about 3,000 pieces of suspected terrorist content this year … Read more
Furious Tory MPs have demanded resignations from the Cabinet after Boris Johnson effectively cancelled Christmas for 16million people in England as he imposed tough new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Prime Minister announced yesterday afternoon that London, the South East and the East of England were being moved into a new Tier … Read more
Clothing sales slump by almost a fifth with stores forced to close during Covid lockdowns By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 18 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 18 December 2020 Clothing sales plunged by almost a fifth last month as stores across the country were forced to close during Covid … Read more
Sweden has paved the way for harsh lockdowns as the government moves to expand its powers to impose coronavirus fighting measures. The government on Wednesday proposed new temporary legislation to expand its powers to fight the coronavirus pandemic, giving it greater leeway to implement and enforce lockdown measures such as closing shopping malls and gyms. … Read more
Britain will remain in some form of lockdown until at least March despite the roll out of coronavirus vaccines, Professor Chris Whitty has warned. The chief medical officer said not enough Brits will have been inoculated against Covid-19 over the next three months to keep the most vulnerable out of hospitals. He urged people not … Read more
How the pandemic is driving Americans to drink: Binge-drinkers are nearly 20% more likely to overdo it each week a coronavirus lockdown drags on, study finds Researchers surveyed nearly 2,000 US adults between mid-March and mid-April They found that 34% of participants reported binge drinking during coronavirus pandemic lockdowns About 60% of binge drinkers increased … Read more
Michael Gove is to the Tory Party what Mikhail Suslov was to the Soviet Communist Party in the 1960s and 1970s. Chief ideologue and brainbox. But whereas Suslov was a hardliner and extreme authoritarian, Mr Gove was, until recently, seen as a social liberal and libertarian. One did not associate him with the expansion of … Read more
How does government decide what Tiers areas are put into? Boris Johnson promised to base Tier allocation on ‘common sense’, and the government’s ‘Winter Plan’ set out a series of metrics to be used. They are: Case detection rates in all age groups; Case detection rates in the over 60s; The rate at which cases are … Read more
Sweden now has a higher Covid-19 infection rate than both France and Britain after shunning lockdowns in favour of a ‘herd immunity’ approach to the pandemic. Hospital admissions for coronavirus patients have almost doubled each week in Sweden, with the country recording 208,295 cases and 6,406 deaths since the outbreak began. Though this is far fewer than in Britain, … Read more
Europe is seeing one coronavirus death every 17 seconds, with 29,000 fatalities last week – an 18 percent increase – the WHO has warned. The latest figures make Europe once again the global epicentre for Covid-19, that has killed over 1,350,000 people worldwide and 333,295 in Europe as of Wednesday. Europe has registered more than … Read more