The Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the hospitality sector has been particularly badly hit and announces a Temporary cut to VAT on food, accommodation, and attractions from 20 per cent to 5 per cent from next Wednesday until January 12th, 2021. He also announced a new job retention bonus for employers to bring back furloughed staff,…
In 1959 contraception was finally made available to unmarried women in the UK, Helen Brook a family planning pioneer said “To think that at last women could be in charge of themselves, decide for themselves. Women were really going to be free.” Six decades later are women really free as pay inequality is entrenched in…
People arriving in England from 60 countries including Italy, Spain, Germany and France will no longer need to quarantine from 10 July 2020, according to confirmation from the Department of Transport after a risk assessment had been conducted by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, in close consultation with Public Health England and the chief medical officer.…
In Hanoi, Vietnam, a hotel owned by Hoa Binh Group and managed by US-based Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc, has opened The Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake Hotel, after pandemic with facilities including a 24-carat gold tiled infinity pool on the rooftop, while inside guest rooms, bathrooms are laced with yellow metal with price from…
Councils and charities in England have called for help to ensure people did not have to return to the streets when hotels reopen on 4 July, will be given an extra £105m to support rough sleepers put up during lockdown. Thousands of rough sleepers were housed in hotels and B&Bs as coronavirus hit. The government…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells MPs that restaurants, pubs, hairdressers and hotels will reopen in England from 4 July as the 2m social distancing rule is being reduced to 1m plus. In Hotels empty minibars, buffet-free breakfasts and regular deep cleaning are among the measures being introduced by one of the biggest operators in…
The Avery’s most lasting legacy was the inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy. Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate as the British government offered enormous bounties for his capture alive or preferably dead. Every’s most lasting legacy was the inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the…
Trade conflicts caused by governments promoting the interest of the elite at the expense of workers. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. The class wars of rising inequality are a…
The UK has passed 300, 469 confirmed Covid-19 cases, as the average number of deaths from Covid-19 over the last seven days is now 144 compared with 435 on May 18. Britain faces a Tsunami of job losses despite hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees getting back to work. MPs were told that jobs were…
Dexamethasone, a cheap genetic steroid has proven to become the first life-saving drug treatment in the Covid-19 pandemic. The low-dose steroid treatment Dexamethasone is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus, and found it cut the risk of death by a third for patients on…