Prince Harry has announced another new job today – his second in 48 hours – as a commissioner for study into the ‘avalanche of misinformation’ in the digital world funded by a controversial billionaire. The Duke of Sussex is joining the Aspen Institute’s new Commission on Information Disorder along with Kathryn Murdoch, the wife of … Read more
Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more
Serena Williams has thrown her support behind Australian mental health company Black Dog Institute after praising her friend Meghan Markle for speaking out about her own suicidal thoughts. The tennis legend vowed to donate all proceeds of her pop-up campaign with US online marketplace Poshmark to the Aussie institute. ‘I’m incredibly proud to be able … Read more
England’s deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, is the odds-on favourite to run No10’s National Institute of Health Protection — which will replace Public Health England. PHE is set to be disbanded when the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over and replaced by the NIHP, which will be bigger and more powerful. Dr … Read more
The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic after US intelligence placed a Wuhan lab at the centre of the mystery. American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019 – weeks before the … Read more
Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding who oversaw disastrous Test and Trace scheme and TalkTalk when hackers stole 157,000 customers’ data Baroness Dido Harding, 52, headed NHS England’s Test and Trace scheme She is a former horse jockey and was chief executive of TalkTalk during … Read more
Wuhan Virology institute director says she has three strains of coronavirus on site but none of them match COVID-19 – but will anyone believe her? Institute director Wang Yanyi said the facility has three strains of the viruses She went on to say that none of the strains they had matched that of Covid-19 Comes … Read more
‘Deeply religious’ President of Royal Institute of British Architects temporarily steps down over fears woman claiming to be his mistress will reveal embarrassing details of their affair as he battles to save his marriage Alan Jones, 55, told 180-year-old Riba that ‘matter had arisen’ in his personal life Members of the institute have called for … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing demands to overrule control-freak health chiefs today amid warnings ‘time is running out’ to scale up coronavirus testing. Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, urged the PM to summon the Dunkirk spirit and let ‘small ship’ labs start screening for the killer disease. Delivering a damning verdict … Read more
UK becoming a country of ghost towns: Think tank calls for overhaul of town planning rules to allow high streets to thrive By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 16 January 2020 Britain will become a ‘country of ghost towns’ unless High Street planning laws … Read more