Nearly three years to the day when the latest global pandemic was declared by the WHO, on 11 March 2020, COVID remains a…
The North American Bomb Cyclone: Suffering and Death During the Christmas Holiday Season
From 21 December 2022 onwards, a large expanse of the continental US, extending from the Great Lakes in the north to the Rio…
An out-of-season increase in Group A streptococcal infections, including scarlet fever, has become headline news in England and is also a source…
It is common knowledge that the supply of new homes in England, for both owner-occupiers and renters, has failed to cope with rising…
November 2022 has proved to be a particularly difficult month for Meta, the parent company of social media platform Facebook, and its Chief…
Ever since it first declared itself in October 2021, Britain’s largest-ever outbreak of avian influenza (AI), better known as bird flu, continues to…
Long Waits in Accident & Emergency Departments in England: Some Contributory Cultural Issues Within Hospitals
Much has been said and written about progressively longer waiting times in emergency departments in England, and will continue to be for the…
FTX (Futures Exchange), the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the American state of Delaware on 11 November…
In his Autumn Statement to the House of Commons on 17 November 2022, Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, allocated extra funds of…
“Toxic Trump”, The MAGA Brand, and the 2022 US Midterm Elections: A Story with an Unexpected Twist
Many American media outlets, political commentators, pollsters, and members of the public in the know, along with sundry observers from further afield, had…