Month: May 2020
Stuart Maconie tells Britain’s Welfare State story through his own history of growing up a northern working-class boy. What was bad about publicly funded hospitals, decent working conditions, student grants, and affordable houses. Britain’s future, making an emotional case for believing in more than profit and loss and defending a just, fairer society. Music journalist,…
Martyn Rady’s Habsburgs gives us a gripping dramatic epic story of a dynasty and the world it built and then lost on an impressive scale over a millennium. Habsburgs with modest origins, grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century and rapidly expanded to take in a large…
Coronavirus R rate is close to one according to Sir Patrick Vallance but warns us to be cautious as new cases could start to rise again. The UK coronavirus death toll has reached 36, 393 people, an increase of 351 fatalities. Britain’s 2.6 million Muslims are preparing to celebrate one of their biggest Eid al…
Health authorities in Sindh province said 97 deaths had been confirmed. The cause of the crash is not yet known. It comes days after Pakistan allowed commercial flights to resume after the country’s coronavirus lockdown was eased. A PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) flight PK8303, Airbus A320 passenger jet flying from Lahore has crashed in a…
The UK coronavirus death toll increases by 338 to 36, 042. Health secretary Matt Hancock confirmed “systems of certification” were being developed to allow people to begin a return to some form of normality. The UK government also confirmed it had ordered 10 million antibody tests to be rolled out over the next few months.…
More than five million virus cases worldwide with 330, 255 people who have died according to Johns Hopkins University tracker. The UK is running out of time to set up a “ track and trace” system, warns the NHS Confederation. Brazil authorises two anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 patients. A two-day-old baby…
Rolls-Royce to cut 9, 000 jobs, a fifth of its workforce amid coronavirus crisis with the aviation sector in turmoil. Rolls-Royce which employs over 52, 000 people globally said “ it’s fair to say that of our civil aerospace business approximately two-thirds of the total employees are in the UK at the moment and that’s…
UK unemployment increased by 69 per cent, from 50, 000 to 1.35 million in three months to March as coronavirus lockdown began. The British labour market has been paralysed by the Covi-19 lockdown but the government figure showing employment at a record high and jobless rate below 4 per cent. There is a biggest rise in…
