Two careworkers have an allergic reaction Covid-19 vaccine

The UK’s world-first Covid-19 vaccine rollout is facing problems for two people with serious allergies to medicines or food, within 24 hours. Two unnamed healthcare workers who have a significant history of an allergic reaction are recovering following the first day of the mass vaccination programme, as it is understood in the US vaccine trial…

Zhou behind China Chang’e-5 Moon mission

Zhou Chengyu, a 24-year-old female space commander and in charge of the rocket connector system has become a viral sensation on Weibo,  social media in China for her work on the Chang’e-5, China’s third successful  Moon landing in seven years. China would be the first in more than 40 years to bring lunar samples back…

Helicopter crash in French Alps kills 5

A helicopter Eurocopter EC135 owned by Service Aerien Francais, a private company carrying out a rescue mission has crashed and fell from an altitude of 1, 800 metres ( 5, 900ft) in the French Alps, near the town of Bonvillard in the Savoir area killing five of the six people on board. The alarm was…

Maggie is the first UK’s Covid19 Pfizer-BioNTec vaccine recipient

Ninety-year-old Margaret Keenan known as Maggie is UK’s first vaccine recipient said she feels “so privileged” to receive the jab as the UK begins the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history. The UK is the first country in the world to start using the Pfizer vaccine after regulators approved its use last week. Globally 68million…

Nigerian Doctor who led Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine study

Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, the Nigerian doctor who led Pfizer’s study for the Coronavirus vaccine in the United States, is also director of HIV Clinical Trials program at the Yale AIDS program, Infectious Diseases Swction, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, New York. Ogbiagu is part of a team of researchers at Pfizer which announced in…

Economic long term Stagflation

Economy is bothered about demography, although ageing and shrinking of the population across the world is a striking and a new phenomenon on the human history. Demographic and globalisation will reverse three multi-decade global trends  and will raise inflation and interest rate, but lead to a pullback in equality.  Whatever the future holds it is…

New tunnel linking Kent and Essex will add 5m tonnes of CO2

A British government report published in March provisionally estimated the UK carbon emissions in 2019 to be 351.5 million tonnes. The traffic created by the road is expected to generate 3.2 million tonnes over 60 years. The Lower Thames crossing (LTC) the UK’s biggest roads project since the M25, a flagship project in the UK’s…

Holding Power to Account

  Barber’s diaries offer close up view of challenges of editing and of leadership in an age of upheaval, an engaging chronicle of the 14 years at  the FT’s helm. The real scoop isn’t on the front page – Lionel Barber as FT editor for the tech boom,  who whispered or yelled what into the…

Silent Night

“Echoing through the world each Yuletide” Review of “Silent Night – A Song for The World”. Available now on the following platforms:- AMAZON PRIME VIDEO APPLE TV GOOGLE PLAY ITUNES MICROSOFT FILMS & TV SKY STORE This documentary story about the creation of the song “Silent Night” opens on December 24, 1818.  The song that…

Frank Pizza Hut co-founder dead

Frank Carney (82), Pizza Hut’s co-founder died on Wednesday of Pneumonia. Frank Carney and his brother, Dan, started the company when Frank was a 19-year-old Wichita State University student near their family’s grocery store in Kansas City. Frank recently recovered from Covid-19 and was also suffering from Alzheimer’s for more than 10 years. The first…