As we ease our stress through a diet of junk food, Netflix and physical inactivity, there is a real risk that our waistlines will grow whilst the economy shrinks. As...
April 11, 2020
As the UK government's inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic gets record numbers of citizens killed, the media should be up in arms calling out every failure. Instead, the Q&A...
April 11, 2020
Silicon Valley's algorithms are controlling your cognitive map, and Congress is letting it happen. Covid-19 is providing the perfect cover to bolster that control — just in time for the...
April 11, 2020
While many pontificate about what Covid-19 might mean for the future – of work, travel etc – little attention has been paid to the future of British media, which has...
April 11, 2020
Boris Johnson's government is doggedly sticking with Brexit which might kill Britain's economy with the country in a crisis situation and expected to suffer the most of any European nation...
April 11, 2020
Billions of people across the world have known for decades that Voice of America is US government-funded propaganda. The White House apparently just noticed – and chose to call them...
April 10, 2020
British police are using social media to shame members of the public who 'break the rules' amid the coronavirus lockdown, but is encouraging pile-ons really what law enforcers should be...
April 10, 2020
The coronavirus epidemic had scarcely arrived on US shores when the Trump administration declared “war” on it, in the grand tradition of the ‘War on Cancer' or the ‘War on...
April 10, 2020
The prime minister must be honest and admit that unless the restrictions last forever, which they can't, in the long term we cannot prevent almost everybody getting infected and a...
April 10, 2020
In only three days, the total fatalities in Sweden due to the current epidemic rose from 477 to 881. While the problem started roughly about the same time in all...
April 10, 2020
Louis C.K.'s independently released comedy special is a ding in the armor of cancel culture, a perfect takedown of woke mobs that proves humor is the voice of the people....
April 10, 2020
Despite the impact Covid-19 has had on the global economy, the US is seeking more funding to counter and confront China in the Pacific, as well as enhancing its military...
April 10, 2020
The unusually supine, bovine and herd-like behaviour of the British media at the government's nightly Covid-19 press conferences has become one of the most depressing spectacles of the whole affair....
April 10, 2020
Having bragged repeatedly of America's energy independence, President Trump must confront the harsh realities of a global oil market no longer able to sustain inefficient US oil producers as he...
April 10, 2020
In less than a month 17 million Americans have applied for unemployment, while the Federal Reserve has focused on bailing out board rooms, billionaires, bankers and builders. Let them all...
April 10, 2020
Whatever the eventual impact of the coronavirus, one thing has become apparent: when governments are the gatekeepers of data-gathering, there is no reliable source of information on the scale of...
April 9, 2020
Twitter is no longer allowing users to hide private data like their phone's unique tracking identifier from advertisers, at the same time the US government is apparently targeting advertiser data...
April 9, 2020
Weaponizing courts against political opponents has become the modus operandi of the right-wing across Latin America. By sentencing Ecuador's ex-President Correa, Moreno and his allies sought to take him out...
April 9, 2020
Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis delivered a monologue on inequality in the time of coronavirus and openly criticised a government minister. This is not her job and just shows why the...
April 9, 2020
What was once idle speculation in the bars of Brussels is now mainstream – even leading Europhiles like Jacques Delors are talking openly about how the bloc's growing divisions may...
April 9, 2020
As a privileged, rich Old Etonian, the prime minister represents everything I despise. But his dying from coronavirus would just turn him into a martyr. He needs to recover so...
April 9, 2020
Just as French patience is beginning to wear thin over a nationwide quarantine, Paris authorities have now prohibited any outdoor exercise in the daytime. Clearly this plan was not thought...
April 9, 2020
The US and UK are emerging as the worst-hit nations from the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of admitting inherent failings and facing public accountability, the narrative is to blame it all...
April 9, 2020
With Keir Starmer replacing Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the UK Labour Party, and Bernie Sanders suspending his campaign in the US, the wave of democratic socialism, which seemed capable...
April 9, 2020
The U.S. government is set to report another shocking level of unemployment claims Thursday even after nearly 10 million people applied for benefits in the previous two weeks because of...
April 9, 2020
Thousands of utility customers in Pennsylvania remained without power Thursday, a day after severe thunderstorms knocked trees and utility lines and spawned two small tornadoes. The storms containing heavy rains,...
April 9, 2020
The city of Miami has stepped up its response to the coronavirus pandemic by requiring everyone inside grocery stores, pharmacies and most other retail business that are still open to...
April 9, 2020
A storage dome was inflated in Mississippi to house wood pellets that will be used as sources of fuel abroad. Enviva, the world's largest producer of industrial wood pellets, announced...
April 9, 2020
An Italian chef and his Moldovan wife have spent the past two weeks camped out in their converted Toyota Land Cruiser in a Walmart parking lot in Hallandale, relying on...
April 9, 2020
Still waiting for a loan under the government's $350 billion emergency Paycheck Protection Program? Get in line. Linda Kaplan has owned an immigration law practice since the late 1970s. She...
April 9, 2020
A bus agency connecting Virginia cities to Washington, D.C., announced plans to suspend service since not enough customers are taking rides during the coronavirus pandemic. The Virginia Breeze will suspend...
April 9, 2020
A Mississippi doctor has sued a hospital she accused of firing her for raising concerns about it's coronavirus safety measures. News outlets reported Dr. Samantha Houston was fired after she...
April 9, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Southampton has become the first Premier League club to announce its players will defer some...
April 9, 2020
The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return? Lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus'...
April 9, 2020
A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off to the International Space Station onThursday following a tight quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos' Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan...
April 9, 2020
At the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel in Pomona, Calif., the gym and the pool are closed, the breakfast buffet has been shut down and the 244-room facility is no longer accepting...
April 9, 2020
At least some small businesses have begun receiving funds under an ambitious Trump administration effort to blunt the coronavirus pandemic's economic fallout, though lenders continued to report technical glitches and...
April 9, 2020
It's a Sunday, a day when home shoppers would normally pack open houses. Luke Smith arrives solo to a Redondo Beach, Calif., listing, angles his laptop toward the front door...
April 9, 2020
As stay-at-home orders swept across the country, shoppers rushed to grocery stores and stocked up on staples, among them eggs. This spike in demand has boosted egg prices, both nationally...
April 9, 2020
With the world battling the Covid-19 pandemic, the "woke" royal couple are busy plotting the next part of their empire. Britain's royal family would be Olympic gold medallists if misjudging...
