Sep 29, 2021
Panic buying at petrol stations has forced queues up and down the country and closed forecourts, with key workers struggling to make their shifts. The army is on standby to help out. And the trouble doesn’t stop there. There’s a global gas shortage that has forced prices up and caused UK energy companies to go...
Sep 27, 2021
A few weeks back, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation made their recommendation on whether healthy 12 to 15-year-olds should get the Covid vaccine.
Yet the chief medical officers of the four nations made their own assessment and said it was best to give a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine to that age...
Sep 24, 2021
It’s been just over a month since the Taliban took Kabul. Some fled Afghanistan, not wanting to see what their new lives might look like. Others stayed out of choice or because there was no other option.
And there was talk of a new, reformed Taliban that's less strict and less restrictive of women's rights than the...
Sep 22, 2021
The perilous nature of our planet, our future, is evident.
A recent UN report said that human activity is changing our climate in unprecedented and irreversible ways.
So what can be done? Many catastrophes are here now. Others are already locked in.
This autumn is the United Nations Climate Change conference, when the...
Sep 20, 2021
It was all going so well for the United States and Covid-19. Before the summer, vaccinations were rising and cases falling. It looked normal.
And then the Delta variant hit, cases rose, hospital wards began to fill again, and with all that, the death toll increased.
With vaccinations hitting a wall, with some governors...