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Poor old ‘Uncle’ Jim Callaghan was castigated – and paid a heavy political price – for Britain’s relatively short ‘Winter of Discontent’ in 1979, yet Boris Johnson’s premiership has been calamitous almost from the day he was gifted a large parliamentary majority by the voting public in order to ‘Get …

In a recent paper, Robert Driver of East Carolina University and Alexander Bond of the UK’s Natural History Museum, note that many bird names were chosen in the 18th and 19th centuries and reflect the dominant European perspective on science of the time.  The study argues that many of these …

An estimated 23 million children worldwide missed their routine immunizations in 2020, the two UN agencies announced on Wednesday, with the Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia most affected. Even as everyone focuses on Covid-19 jabs, “we have gone backwards on other vaccinations, leaving children at risk from devastating but preventable …

Havana has blamed the US for the protests that erupted across dozens of Cuban cities on Sunday. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Monday that the continuing US policy of “economic suffocation” against the island nation has caused shortages of food and medication and power outages. Speaking to reporters at the …

There are widespread reports of anti-government protests in Cuba. Aggravated by Covid-19 and the country’s struggling economic situation, some people took to the streets calling for an end to the island’s communist regime.  This has, unsurprisingly, provoked an outpouring of support from the western mainstream media and all the usual suspects in …

The blast, caused by a gas leak, occurred at around 4pm local time, Adnan Qazi, the governor of Shush County in the province of Khuzestan, was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Pictures apparently taken at the scene showed major damage to a small building surrounded by debris, and a motorcycle …

While I never met Donald Rumsfeld in person, our paths crossed indirectly on several occasions. What I learnt from these experiences hardened my heart toward a man who caused so much harm based on actions that placed ambition over integrity. In the days following my September 3, 1998, testimony before …

Researchers from Kiel University in Germany revealed on Wednesday that a strain of the bacterium, known as Yersina pestis, dating back millenia, had been discovered in samples taken from the remains of a hunter gatherer in the Baltic nation. As part of a paper published in the Cell scientific journal, …

The UK government ordered 589 Ajax armoured fighting vehicles from US-based General Dynamics in 2014, but the military hardware, costing over £3.2 billion ($4.5 billion), appears to be far from battle-ready.  According to the Times, trials launched in November were paused until March after soldiers testing the vehicles became sick. …

It’s probably safe to say that before this week almost nobody in the West had heard of Belarusian opposition activist Roman Protasevich, the editor of a Telegram channel banned by officials in his native country. On Sunday, however, all that changed. Protasevich became an international cause celebre after the passenger …