Asked why Britain’s epidemic was worse than countries like France and Germany, she said: “The decision in early March to stop testing and contact tracing in the community was one of the big problems. “When t
The UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system can have some remarkable results and is capable of enacting extraordinarily quick political revolution, as in the triumph then rapid fall from power of the great Liberal Party in the first quarter of the twentieth century. We are in such a momen...
wind turbines do kill many birds and bats. And one aspect of turbine maintenance suggests a considerably larger number of victims of other kinds. If rotor blades are not cleaned regularly, the turbine’s power output may drop by 25%. The culprits of...
Even though Wi-Fi and even mobile phone coverage wasn’t available technology helped us in the form of individual satellite trackers everyone carried to ensure we could be found if we went off route and call for emergency help if required (which it was on a number of occasions but happily ...
“I feel sorry for the country, as this shows the power of partisan politicians, who think of nothing higher than their own interests. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any length of time.”—Teddy Roosevelt 26thPresident of the USA ...
Part-time students will have been particularly vulnerable to sudden income loss, although they are also more likely to be in more permanent forms of employment covered by some sort of emergency income protection. Income On the income side, responses have varied across the four nations. In England...
Prison conditions were a problem when Chavez came to power and maybe new, more human rights oriented prisons should have been built early on. The laws which placed people in such incarceration probably should have been investigated, and an understanding of brutality and degradation affecting human ...