Day: 2 May 2022

In this week's London Calling the talking points are Neil Parish's fall from grace, the coming global famine, Scary Poppins, the difference between Ozarks and Breaking Bad, and Tony Blair's resurrection.

The BBC’s green activist-in-residence Justin Rowlatt has had two complaints upheld against him, following the broadcast last November of his absurd "Wild Weather" Panorama programme.

Amazon has taken another step back to normality as it axes its paid time-off policy for employees with Covid, an announcement that coincides with the company recording a first quarter loss.

According to GB News, wind farms have been gaming the system, taking advantage of 'green' subsidies to earn hundreds of millions from the energy crisis.

Care home residents in Cornwall suffered appalling conditions during the pandemic amidst unmanageable pressures being placed on staff. Then along came the vaccine mandate and it got worse.

A Medicine article proposes the Foegen effect to explain why the Covid fatality rate increases with mask usage: deep re-inhalation of condensed droplets which were trapped in the mask can worsen outcomes.

by Natalie White When Covid hit in 2020, many of the metropolitan middle class were able to work from home, but some quickly realised they could work just as effectively from other parts of the country, and those that could fled to their bucolic second homes in Cornwall. There was immediately a big backlash from the Cornish population, clearly apparent on local BBC coverage, as these new ‘Covid refugees’ were met with fear and resentment. This was, however, not a mindless, kneejerk parochialism. To put it in context, Cornwall has only one NHS hospital trust, offering three hospitals for a population of well over half a million people – a population swelled by the new arrivals. For many decades now, Cornwall has been the retirement village of the U.K., and because health experts warned us that Covid would affect the most clinically vulnerable, including older people, it was no surprise that the new arrivals caused fear. Adding to these worries, it was reported that many of those seeking refuge in Cornwall were fleeing areas of high infection. While most people perceive Cornwall as a haven for surfers and artists, the reality is that many towns and villages in Cornwall are some of the poorest in Europe. Because of the explosion in second home ownership over the past 20 years, some ...

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.