Ralf Rangnick will not take up his previously agreed consultancy role at Manchester United following the appointment of Erik ten Hag as permanent manager, the club have announced in a statement. German boss Rangnick was drafted into the club late last year to replace Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after a prolonged …
Read More »New Omicron variant could spell end for Covid-19 pandemic – top Russian scientist
In an interview published on Monday in Moscow tabloid KP, Anatoly Altshtein, a virologist at the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, which pioneered Russia’s Sputnik V jab, said that there it is still not clear how deadly or infectious the new Omicron variant might be. According to him, …
Read More »‘He never learned to spell grazie’: Juventus fans divided on Ronaldo exit… with some claiming they never wanted him at the club
Juventus and Ronaldo’s relationship often seemed precariously rocky, not least when the club and player fell well short of their prized ambition of a place in the latter stages of the Champions League in each of his three seasons in Turin. Worse was to come in Ronaldo’s final season, when …
Read More »Rather than letting the recent revelations about UFOs spell hope and intrigue, the US government is spreading ‘fear porn’
For my ninth birthday, my brother got me a telescope. In rural Northern Wisconsin, on my family’s farm, I would look at the stars across the night sky with no light pollution to block the waves of patterns webbing across the dark. Michael, my older brother, patiently set up my …
Read More »Viktor Orban’s LGBTQ referendum could spell the end of Hungary’s membership of the EU, or the end of his premiership
Hungary’s relationship with the European Union took another turn for the worse today, as Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, announced he would be putting his controversial child-protection laws out to a referendum. According to LGBTQ rights groups and some other EU member states, these laws, which came into force …
Read More »Who is John Lewis and why might he spell curtains for Boris Johnson’s leadership? An explainer for non-Brits
People not au fait with everyday British life might well have casually read headlines this week about John Lewis being a threat to Boris Johnson and wondered, “Who’s John Lewis and what in the name of tea and cricket is he going to do to Boris?” Americans might have thought …
Read More »China’s sweeping reforms will finally spell the end of Britain’s legacy in Hong Kong
As China’s ruling party prepares to meet for its annual ‘two sessions’ on Friday, the biggest and most important political gathering of the year, Hong Kong is very much on the agenda. Beijing is moving to impose sweeping reforms to the special administrative region’s electoral system, closing down what it …
Read More »The return of the Obama ‘adults’ in a Joe Biden administration is likely to spell ruin for America
To those watching the drama unfolding in Washington, DC around the stalled efforts on the part of nominal President-elect Joe Biden in forming a transition team, the parallels are eerily familiar: a bitterly contested election between an establishment political figure and a brash DC ‘outsider’, a controversial outcome delaying the …
Read More »No, a Joe Biden win wouldn’t spell the end for Brexit or populism…despite what the ‘elite’ try to tell you
Of all the pundits’ takeaways we are left with from the US presidential election, certainly the two daftest have to be that a win for Joe Biden would mean bye-bye to Brexit and simultaneously signals the end of populism as a global political force. To be completely clear, neither of …
Read More »Arrest in Spain of software genius John McAfee could spell the end of my former island neighbour’s wild escapades
As the law finally caught up with anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, I had to wonder if that meant an end to the outlandish escapades of this paranoid pirate who, for several years, was one of my closest neighbours. Born the son of a US serviceman and British mother in …
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