Everyone's favorite Science Guy is ready to explain why it's so important to wear a mask. Bill Nye took to TikTok toc share two informative videos about the science behind different types of masks - proving some face coverings are far more effective than others. The 64-year-old TV personality made …...Read More
Bill Nye takes to TikTok to explain the science behind face masks
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Princess Anne's animal care charity is put out to pasture
Prince Philip famously quipped of his daughter ‘if it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested’. However not even the dedicated equestrian Princess Royal could come to the rescue of the Animal Health Trust, of which she has been president since 1991. I can reveal the much lauded veterinary …...Read More
Lockdown in UP from July 10 till July 13
Coronavirus live updates: Lockdown in UP from 10pm on July 10 till 5am on July 13 India recorded its biggest single-day spike on Wednesday with 25,530 fresh Covid-19 cases, breaching the 25,000-mark for the first time. The country’s total caseload has reached 7,67,296. India’s cumulative death toll is now 21,129. …...Read More
Keir Starmer signs up for September Clean to rid UK of litter
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has thrown his weight behind the Daily Mail-backed Great British September Clean. He said he fully supported the ‘valuable campaign’, saying green spaces had been a ‘lifeline’ recently. He was joined by the Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party and Greens. It came after heritage groups, …...Read More
London girl, 13, who helped win the Battle of Britain
Advertisement The work was done by lamplight, over a small kitchen table in North London. Night after night throughout the early months of 1934, Captain Fred Hill and his 13-year-old daughter Hazel burned the midnight oil, plotting graphs and labouring over complex algorithms. It was tiring, unrewarding work but they …...Read More
Holidaymakers should wear a mask EVERYWHERE as part of the 'new normal'
Holidaymakers should wear masks while travelling, in hotels and even on beaches, a coalition of the world's biggest travel companies will say today. As part of a 'new normal' for holidays, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) is urging tourists to wear masks at virtually all times, wherever they …...Read More
Coronavirus: UK to opt out of EU vaccine scheme
Ministers will today opt out of an EU virus vaccine scheme over fears Brussels could limit the number of doses available to the UK. The European Commission invited the UK to join the new 'EU vaccine strategy', which aims to secure advance agreements with manufacturers to provide tens of millions …...Read More
JAN MOIR: Whoever wins this sickening scrap, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard BOTH lose
The theatres have gone dark and the cinemas are closed, while scripts gather dust in locked rooms and production has ceased on television soaps. However, those in need of a drama fix need look no further than the law courts in London, where the showbiz trial of the century — …...Read More
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Eat, drink and be merry, now for the hangover
Whatever Rishi Sunak’s drinking, make mine a large one. But seeing as he doesn’t touch alcohol, I can only assume he’s discovered some kind of magic teetotal elixir. Either that, or he’s a devotee of one of those New Age cults which promises serenity and divine intervention in exchange for …...Read More
ROGER ALTON chooses this summer's top non-fiction books
THE CHIFFON TRENCHES by Andre Leon Talley (4th Estate £20, 304pp) THE CHIFFON TRENCHES by Andre Leon Talley (4th Estate £20, 304pp) If you thought the wondrously b*tchy movie The Devil Wears Prada was an understatement, then this book is for you. It’s an eye-popping epic of full-on score-settling, giving …...Read More
