The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Brexit damage as big as Covid, says OBR – predicting five years before incomes recover

UK seeing ‘biggest squeeze on living standards’ on record, says head of fiscal watchdog

The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2023

Hong Kongers hold first protest in years under strict rules

Dozens of people have joined Hong Kong’s first authorized demonstration against the government since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions under unprecedentedly strict rules, including wearing a numbered badge around their necks

The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2023

End of COVID emergency will usher in changes across the US health system

The Biden administration’s decision to end the COVID-19 public health emergency in May will institute sweeping changes across the health care system that go far beyond many people having to pay more for COVID tests.

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2023

50 beavers living secretly on the Bristol Avon, stunned researchers discover

Until 2020, they were thought to have been extinct for almost 500 years

Bristol Post · Mar 26, 2023

Victoria’s Daniel Andrews leaving on surprise mission to China

Daniel Andrews will be the first of Australia's state leaders to visit China since the COVID-19, with education and trade meetings organised. 

The New Daily · Mar 26, 2023

Mosley wakes up Aussies to their sleep issues

YOU'LL often find Dr Michael Mosley awake at 3am. Not because the British documentary maker and science journalist is a renown night owl or party animal, but because he suffers from "terrible insomnia." "I find it easy to go to sleep but I tend to wake up at 3am and…

Newcastle Herald · Mar 26, 2023

Woman who faced £269 parking fine wins two-year battle to overturn it

Lynnea Arnold argued that she didn't know the area and said signs were poorly displayed

Wales Online · Mar 26, 2023

Newcastle law firm Sintons invests after rise in turnover and profits

It was the first year in which the law firm ran its all staff bonus scheme

Birmingham Post · Mar 26, 2023

'Families bereaved by Covid deserve to hear the truth, not this painful Johnson waffle'

Millions of us were angered and disgusted by a dreadful whining noise coming from Westminster this week – the sound of Boris Johnson passing the buck for Partygate.

Daily Mirror · Mar 25, 2023

ChatGPT-4 Provides Much More Balanced Responses Than Google Bard as to Good/Bad Things About Trump/Biden

Thursday, I blogged about how Google Bard responds to "What are some [good/bad] things about [Trump's/Biden's] presidency?" The short version (go to the post for screenshots that contain the full output): "What are some good things about Donald Trump's presidency?" yielded a list of good things and bad things. "What…

Reason · Mar 25, 2023