The Saturn Herald – Page 39

Calls for boycott of Russia grows

McDonald’s and Coca Cola are very complicated multinational businesses, that have been criticised on social media for failing to speak out about the attacks and invasion of Ukraine, and continuing to operate in the country. Coca-Cola even has bottling plants in Russia and is not easy to pull out of Russia. Netflix and Levi’s have…

Banks have a duty of care for the elderly’s online issues

Many old and elderly although they are mentally alert but suffer agonies coping with vagaries of online banking are ill-served online by British banks. Some instructions are ambiguous or contain the usual jargon, and carrying out a simple task often requires multiple attempts, and gets more frustrated. To ask for help on the telephone could…

China’s growth of 5.5 % lowest in three decades

China revealed a growth target of 5.5 per cent, its lowest in three decades. Beijing seeks to boost its economy after a sharp loss of momentum in 2021 and fallout from the Ukraine war. However, Beijing maintains its strict Covid measures, enforces its common prosperity policy to reduce inequality while boosting party control over the…

Collective response to the virus

Historian, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords, Professor Peter Hennessy’s Covid diary collecting his thoughts each day, started six days before the UK went into its first lockdown, vulnerable through illness, sits as a cross-bencher, has been told to shield at home from the virus. He discovered the links between the post-second world…

Servant of Tycoons

“Londongrad” is a phenomenon brought to the fore by Vladimir Putin’s savage attack on Ukraine, with Britain’s Liz Truss slamming the Oligarchs and their associates on the floor of the House of Commons. The British establishment and its financial system provide for dirty money from the post-Soviet era and elsewhere may be seen as an…

Foundations of an Empire

The Cloaca Maxima, ( Cloaca, Roman goddess), one of the world’s earliest sewage systems and a sacred symbol of Roman culture and Roman engineering, was built during either the Roman Kingdom or the early Roman Republic, around 600 BC, under the orders of the King of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus, to drain local marshes and remove…

Shane Warne: “King of Spin” Cricket legend died of heart attack

Australian Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne (52), “King of Spin” who took 708 Test wickets in 145 matches the second most of all time, and arguably history’s best bowler, has died of a suspected heart attack in his villa on the Thai Island of Koh Samui on Friday. “ It is with great sadness we advise…

One injustice that shatters their Bond

Karen Joy Fowler is a Book-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes with an epic novel about the notorious, ill-fated Booth family of Charmers, liars, drinkers, and dreamers, who will change history forever. The story of the brilliant and ill-fated Booth family. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor…

Looking for Love in Dublin

Cormac is a photographer forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself “the leftover man”. Through talent and charm, he has escaped small-town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night, and receiving boilerplate…

Three UK firms snapped up by overseas players

Three UK firms combined worth over £3m have been snapped up by overseas players in a buying frenzy. Clipper Logistics accepted a 920p-a-share bid from the US and GXO Logistics, a key provider of deliveries for M&S and John Lewis, JD Sports, and Asda disappear from the UK stock market. John Menzies the cargo group that…