In May 2020, Kate Bingham, the life sciences venture capitalist was asked to lead the UK government’s vaccine task force (VTF), although she believed a successful Covid-19 vaccine was the “longest of the long shots”, and was reluctant to take responsibility of potentially wasting large sums of public money by pursuing jabs that…
The UK’s shortest-serving Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after 44 days in office, during which she presided over a failed “mini budget” which triggered financial turmoil, and Imploded quite rapidly to inflict lasting damage to the Conservative Party. Her speech: “I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. “Families…
The Arctic Circle spanning the border of Canada, Alaska, and Russia, where the above amazing video was shot which lasts only a few seconds, revealing spectacular views. This phenomenon can be seen only for 36 seconds once a year when the moon appears in all its splendor and then does a disappearing act. It is…
https://youtu.be/vyDjFVZgJoo The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, from 20th November to 18th December 2022 with 32 teams in 8 groups, competing across 64 matches in the 22nd edition of the World Cup Football. The World Cup Qatar theme song “Hayya Hayya” is dedicated to all the workers and leadership of Qatar by a 10-year-old Indian…
Regent’s Canal named after Prince Regent, later George IV, is part of London’s Grand Union Canal, spanning London Zoom Camden Market, Victoria warehouses and celebrity hangouts, Little Venice, and was originally built to link the huge Grand Junction Canal’s Paddington branch with the River Thames. One-way journey along the canal from Little Venice also known…
How does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King, write and play highly acclaimed music, and become the first Black person to vote in Britain? Based on the true story of Sancho’s debut novel about the first Black man in Britain who led the fight to end slavery. 1746 Georgian London is not a safe…
A 12-year-old Bird Gardener, son of Ethan Gardener, a white Harvard linguist, and Margaret Miu, a Chinese-American poet, lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too…
Jan Morris, an observational genius with lyricism and humor, is considered Britain’s one of the best-loved writers, the author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books. Born as James Humphry Morris in 1926, a childhood spent amidst Oxford’s Gothic beauty and military service in Italy, Palestine, and Egypt, were followed by…
Robbie Coltrane, famous for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films and a criminal psychologist in the crime series Cracker in 1993, has died aged 72. Coltrane who began his career in comedy and theatre, also appeared in James Bond films Golden Eye and The World is Not Enough. Coltrane was awarded an OBE…
Battersea Power Station which was laying derelict for 39 years, opens to the public for the first time. The Grade II listed London’s truly iconic building is hoping to cement itself as one of the capital’s top retail and leisure destinations, with over 60 shops and bars at the Art Deco development including flagship store…