The UK now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe according to the latest government figures, of 29, 427 death recorded across the UK, a figure Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said was “a massive tragedy”. Britain has reached the record deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus faster in its epidemic than…
Month: May 2020
Protective screens and reduced hot-desking alternatives to social distancing where it is not possible are among measures being considered to let workplaces reopen. Reopening the economy will take more than modified working practices. Workers must be confident they are safe. Companies must be confident they won’t be sued if they get it wrong. And consumers…
Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop World 3,539,654 58,283 247,033 2,370 1,147,589 2,145,032 50,185 454 31.7 USA 1,174,202 13,428 68,088 644 176,988 929,126 16,156 3,547 206 7,033,382 21,249 Spain 247,122 1,533 25,264…
When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis, owner the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island, passes his card to the beautiful bartender Vincent with a tip, it marks the beginning of their life together. On the same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the widowed wall…
Caroline Maclean, gives us a spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, explaining the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions of a group of artists at the hear of an international avant-garage. In 1930s London, Caroline Maclean’s riveting group of the biography of artists, architects, and writers, flourishing to prove a pivotal moment of British modernism. Sculptors…
In 1529, two English envoys Sir Nicholas Carew and Richard Sampson filed a report after travelling to Bologna for Charles V’s coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, saying in towns and villages, they saw children crying about the streets for bread, and yea dying for hunger, Pope Clement VII told them that “war, famine and pestilence”…
Even when the lockdown restrictions are eased, most people will be tech-dependent for a very long time, people discovered the art of zooming clients to neighbourhood WhatsApp groups, as digital platforms have become the only way for many of us to work, get fit or be educated and entertained. The lockdown and its…
Millions of entrepreneurs, scientists, and bored people all are using the lockdown as a time to tap into their creativity to seek opportunities on solutions to projects they working on before the coronavirus pandemic took over. Scientists all over the world are raking their brains to find a vaccine for coronavirus. A slower pace…
UK announces 674 more coronavirus deaths – taking the number of COVID-19 victims to 26, 771. The Irony of life Suddenly New York “the city that never sleeps” is now asleep, all quiet. Rome “the eternal city” is deserted. Paris the “centre of Romance” lives in echos. Disney is out of magic. London is caged…
Theory of Happiness “ A calm and modest life can bring happiness than the constant pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness was scribbled in a note in lieu of a tip on stationery from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, as his pockets were empty, in 1992 saying…