Macron tosses highest award to leader of repressive Egyptian regime TOP OF the list of people you might jib at sharing a Covid bubble with is Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, president of a country that has emerged as having one of the world’s most brutal and repressive regimes, with a worsening human rights record and prisons …
But council admits it keeps no records on spraying with glyphosate CAMBRIDGESHIRE schools are allowed to authorise contractors looking after their grounds to use a weedkiller suspected of causing cancer. The admission follows repeated approaches by Bronterre News over several weeks. Shockingly, however, the county council admits it has no information on which schools spray …
WHY IS Cambridgeshire County Council still using a notorious weedkiller said by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to be “probably carcinogenic”? And why is it so reluctant to admit that it does? The council is among a rapidly shrinking number of local authorities in the UK to continue to douse …
WALK THROUGH Borth, near Aberystwyth, and you’ll be struck by the number of posters in people’s windows signalling continuing fierce opposition to a ghastly plan to carry out substantial civil engineering works on the wild, uncluttered beach near the village’s Bronze Age sunken forest. This would be vandalism. How else is it possible to describe …
IN THE circumstance, Rachel de Ruvigny knew she had to be firm. Yes, the Countess of Southampton was very keen to continue to cooperate with Anthony Van Dyck over his unfolding portrayal of her as the goddess Fortune, complete with shining globe and sunbeams hinting at the dispelling of a glowering cloudscape. And, yes, she …
IN A report on 8 October, The Daily Telegraph’s science editor, Sarah Knapton, quotes Graeme Ackland, professor of computer simulation at the University of Edinburgh, as saying that “lockdown does mean that the number of deaths you save goes down, so there is a short-term gain, but it leads to long-term pain…” Either Prof …
12 September 2020 COVID-19 gets an airing every single week on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? But listen in vain for perspicacity, for discussion about anything but the immediate. It was no different on last night’s programme. The presenter, Chris Mason, is basically a good, plain-speaking journalist, not afraid to challenge or to …
PRINCE WILLIAM has come as near as dammit to blaming the coronavirus pandemic on the illegal wildlife trade. Giving as broad a hint as his advisers will have believed he could risk while staying within royal protocol, the second in line to the UK throne in July told a virtual meeting of leading conservation …
6 July 2020 AT LAST a major voice is saying what this blog has been bleating about for months: the world is giving all its attention to the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but is ignoring its cause. As a result, a United Nations report declares, a steady stream of diseases …
5 July 2020 LET’S CUT to the chase, courtesy of Nature magazine. As it points out, there’s strong evidence that the Covid-19 virus originated in bats. But how, it asks, did it get from bats to people? Researchers overwhelmingly think that it’s a wild virus, which probably passed to people through an intermediate species. …
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