Coronavirus Briefing: A Push to Reopen Schools

How can schools reopen safely? In an ideal world, schools would reopen in the fall. There’s near universal support for the idea, from the American Academy of Pediatrics, parents, educators and politicians. But that support comes with an important condition: It must be done safely. The Centers for Disease Control …...Read More

Ministers blew £10 BILLION on bungled Track and Trace system

Ministers spent an astonishing £10 billion on the bungled test and trace programme as part of an extra £48 billion of spending on public services during the coronavirus crisis, it has emerged. The programme was championed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock when introduced at the end of May but, as …...Read More

Is it really OK to date a toyboy half your age?

Beverley Turner (pictured) claims we're conditioned to be uncomfortable by women dating a younger man YES by Beverley Turner Bernie Ecclestone, still spry at 89, recently boasted he ‘didn’t need Viagra’ to father his new son with wife Fabiana, 44. Contrast this with the actress Kate Beckinsale, looking glorious at …...Read More

Who'll find love on our virtual date? This week it's Julia, 54, and Steve, 54

Julia, 54, (pictured) is a self-employed upholsterer JULIA, 54 Dating past? I was married for 22 years and have been divorced for five. My next relationship lasted for two years, but ended in 2019. I wasn’t sure he was faithful and it was a shock when he married three months …...Read More

ALEX BRUMMER: Enjoy it while you can… we cannot live on Rishi Sunak's giveaways forever

No Chancellor in modern times has faced the looming horror of mass unemployment that scarred this country and the world economy in the 1930s. But this is precisely what Rishi Sunak’s unprecedented measures yesterday were designed to stave off. As what has been called the ‘first phase’ of the pandemic …...Read More

STEPHEN GLOVER: Truly, Rishi Sunak has seized his moment. No 10? I do believe his time will come

William Gladstone’s first Budget speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1853 lasted nearly five hours, and cemented his political reputation. He laid the ground for tax and tariff reductions which boosted the British economy. Rishi Sunak’s Summer Statement yesterday — not a proper Budget — lasted less than half …...Read More

Family of couple whose bodies were found stuffed in a suitcase offer reward for information

Two dismembered bodies found stuffed inside a suitcase in Seattle by teenagers making a TikTok video have been identified as a mother-of-four and her boyfriend. Now their families are raising money to offer as a reward for information leading to their killer's arrest. The bodies of Jessica Lewis, 35, and …...Read More

Jodie Comer is targeted by Twitter mob for 'dating a Donald Trump fan'

She takes out her enemies in increasingly sadistic fashion as bisexual assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve. Now, however, actress Jodie Comer has found herself the victim after hundreds of social media users called for her to be 'cancelled' – the modern equivalent of being chased with burning torches. The Bafta-winner's …...Read More

Gyms 'will get the green light to reopen within days, Boris Johnson to announce

Boris Johnson will today give gyms the go-ahead to reopen within days. The Prime Minister is expected to unveil details of the latest unlocking of the economy as coronavirus cases continue to decline. Ministers were last night finalising which sectors will get the go-ahead to restart, but Whitehall sources said …...Read More

Study of 17 Million Identifies Crucial Risk Factors for Coronavirus Deaths

“A lot of previous work has focused on patients that present at hospital,” said Dr. Ben Goldacre of the University of Oxford, one of the authors on the study. “That’s useful and important, but we wanted to get a clear sense of the risks as an everyday person. Our starting …...Read More