Donald Trump calls coronavirus ‘kung flu’ AGAIN despite outrage over racist term

President Donald Trump went back to referring to the coronavirus as the ‘kung flu’ at a campaign rally inside a church in Phoenix Tuesday after the White House rejected complaints about the racist phrase.  Trump trolled his critics by running through the long list of names for the virus that has killed 120,000 Americans, including … Read more

Donald Trump uses racist term ‘kung flu’ to describe coronavirus sparking outrage online

Donald Trump on Saturday used the racist term ‘kung flu’ to describe COVID-19, sparking outrage online.  The president, speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma at his rally in three months, said of the virus: ‘It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names.’ His own … Read more

Searches on Twitter for the term ‘racist’ surface President Donald Trump’s name as the top result

Searches on Twitter for the term ‘racist’ are surfacing President Donald Trump’s name as the top result under ‘accounts’ Searches for ‘racist’ on Twitter surface the account of President Donald Trump  Twitter its algorithm links terms commonly associated with accounts The phenomenon comes as Trump and Twitter battle over how the president’s tweets should be handled By … Read more

Collapsed private school attended by Sarah Ferguson ‘demands parents pay £3,900 summer term fees’

A private school which collapsed into administration in the coronavirus crisis has demanded parents pay for summer term – or forfeit their children’s GCSE results. HawleyHurst school in Hampshire gave parents and staff two hours notice when it closed at the end of March. Owned by the millionaire founder of The Eden Project, Sir Tim … Read more

Hamish Blake was shamed for using the term ‘home schooling’

‘I got told off’: Hamish Blake reveals he was shamed for using the term ‘home schooling’ because it’s OFFENSIVE to teachers By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:04 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 23:56 BST, 20 April 2020 Hamish Blake was shamed for saying he was ‘home schooling’ his five-year-old son, Sonny, … Read more

The power crazed crook in the Kremlin: The Oligarchs thought he’d last one term

BOOK OF THE WEEK  PUTIN’S PEOPLE  by Catherine Belton (William Collins, £25, 640pp) Thank heavens for coronavirus! I know I shouldn’t say that but there are some small blessings in the current pandemic.  In Russia, the national referendum to extend Vladimir Putin’s stay in office for another 12 years has been postponed. The proposal that … Read more

TOM LEONARD: Could Donald Trump’s coronavirus tantrums cost him a second term in the White House?

To those in Britain and across the world who hope and pray that their political leaders are up to the challenges posed by coronavirus, well, just be thankful you don’t live in the US. Yesterday, Donald Trump compared the governors of states who might seek to defy him over his desire to end the lockdown … Read more

Cuts to air pollution could SPEED UP climate change in the short term

Emissions Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. After the gas is released into the atmosphere it stays there, making it difficult for heat to escape – and warming up the planet in the process.  It is primarily released from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and … Read more