“What we want to do is get out of this national lockdown as soon as possible,” Raab told Sky News on Sunday. The UK went into a deeper, nationwide lockdown on January 5, shutting down most non-essential businesses and schools, as well as promoting a working-from-home approach. Britain is also …
Read More »As officials talk of tighter lockdown, Italian restaurants open their doors in protest (VIDEOS)
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extended the country’s three-tier coronavirus restrictions on Friday, imposing a nationwide 10pm to 5am curfew until March and forbidding travel between Italy’s 20 regions until February 15. These measures were originally implemented in November, and were set to expire on Friday. For regions classified as …
Read More »Next few weeks will be ‘worst’ of the pandemic despite national lockdown, England’s chief medical officer warns
The chief medical officer was speaking on BBC Breakfast, as part of his regular Q&A sessions with viewers, shortly after the UK government raised concerns that social distancing rules aren’t having the effect they had hoped for and floated the possibility that they are considering introducing tougher lockdown measures. “This …
Read More »Lockdown without end in the UK? Boris Johnson has shown Brits the finger
In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1935 film adaptation of ‘The 39 Steps’, Richard Hannay (played by Robert Donat) tells seemingly ‘respectable citizen’ Professor Jordan (Godfrey Tearle) that the dastardly criminal mastermind he is after has the top joint of the little finger of his left hand missing. “Sure it’s not this …
Read More »US Congress goes into LOCKDOWN as pro-Trump protesters storm Capitol
Pence was presiding over the joint session of Congress that was expected to formally certify the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden. The House and the Senate had broken off into separate sessions to discuss objections from some Republican lawmakers to the validity of results from Arizona, when protesters gathered …
Read More »As Lockdown 3.0 descends on Britain, the time for reason and argument is over. Only dissent will save us now
Here we are again. After what was for many people a fraught and upsetting Christmas, and a revelry-free New Year, the UK is back in lockdown. It is slated to last until February, but without major dissent, the true end is not in sight. Is Lockdown 3.0 ‘justified’? Is the …
Read More »Boris Johnson confirms new national lockdown for England as UK registers record Covid-19 cases
Describing the move as part of “a great national effort to fight Covid,” Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown until at least mid-February. By that time, Johnson said that “if things go well and with a fair wind,” all of the UK’s frontline health and social care workers, elderly, and clinically vulnerable will be vaccinated. …
Read More »Hancock ‘does not rule out’ THIRD national lockdown in UK amid calls from opposition to take immediate action on Covid-19
Speaking on Monday morning, British health secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News that the government is not “ruling anything out” amid calls from the opposition leader, Keir Starmer, to introduce a national lockdown within 24 hours. “This new variant is much easier to catch, it is much more transmissible, and …
Read More »Pro-lockdown Pope gets political on Covid-19 again, condemns those who traveled over the holidays despite pandemic
“They are good people, but they didn’t think about those who were staying at home, of the economic problems of many people who have been hit hard by the lockdown, of the sick people,” the Pope said Sunday in his weekly address at the Vatican. He added that travelers thought …
Read More »Boris Johnson says he’s ‘reconciled’ to a TOUGHER lockdown – and thinks Brits are ‘reconciled’ TOO
Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Johnson assured parents that they can send their children back to school after the Christmas holidays. His remarks differed from those of his advisers, and triggered a massive blowback from opposition parties and unions, who accused him of putting lives at risk. Though Johnson …
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