Month: February 2021

Analysis Insight Latest News

Is the Supreme Court right to stop Shamima Begum entering Britain to argue her case for regaining or retaining her British citizenship? Can she argue her case from her Syrian captivity?

26 February 2021 By Paul Martin

The UK Supreme Court rejects Begum’s claim to be entitled to return to argue her case (February 25 2021). IN THE SUPREME COURT, Lord Reed and four other judges unanimously ruled: “The right for a fair hearing does not trump all other considerations, such as the safety of the public… “The appropriate response is for […]

Insight Media Blunders or Brilliance Strange as It Seems

Pictures from Mars to Earth are clear. Pictures from Britain to Britain far less so.

25 February 2021 By Paul Martin

The world has just seen astonishingly-detailed clear pictures from the surface of Mars, courtesy of an American rover called Perseverance [affectionately abbreviated to Percy]. However when BBC Newsnight proudly showed them [on February 24 2021], as a marvel of human achievement, it also linked up with a scientist in Britain. Except the picture of him […]

Corona and Covid Insight Latest News

EXCLUSIVE: Many elderly or housebound people in England are not getting their first vaccination against the Covid virus because of failures by the system, an investigation by correspondent.world has revealed.

25 February 2021 By Paul Martin

Leading charities have told Correspondent.World that many people either stuck at home or reluctant to leave it are failing to be jabbed.  Yet full advantage is not being taken of one easy potential solution — walking a short distance to local chemists.

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Any British government usually becomes unpopular after a year in office. The Leader of the Opposition says there are two good reasons why he’s not winning the opinion polls.

22 February 2021 By Paul Martin

Why is Labour not leading the Opinion Polls? After all, the country has been plunged into crisis and has lost nearly ten percent of its Gross national Product in the year since Boris Johnson’s Conservatives retained and extended their parliamentary majority. Sir Keir Starmer, the Leader of the Opposition and head of the Labour Party, […]

Insight Latest News Media Blunders or Brilliance

Do you need to be ruthless or a ‘nutter’ to become British prime minister? No, says Britain’s leader of the Opposition.

22 February 2021 By Paul Martin

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has hit back at critics who say he lacks the hard-man qualities needed to become Britain’s prime minister.   He also attacked politicians and journalists, who he says have already been proved wrong about him. Speaking by zoom to a group situated inside his parliamentary constituency, Sir Keir said voters don’t want […]

Eyewitness Media Blunders or Brilliance

An interview with British Prime Minister John Major after a very Soviet attempted-coup. How my own coup went awry.

12 February 2021 By Paul Martin

For a journalist and foreign correspondent, being in the right place at the right time is sometimes lucky, sometimes an instinct.  I had just failed in both.  Only days before I had been in Russia, making a film about Boris Yeltsin, the recently elected leader of the Russian Federation, which was the major part of […]

Analysis Eyewitness Media Blunders or Brilliance

Correspondent.World’s Media Excellence Award, for January 2021: Egypt’s overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak ten years ago… by the Telegraph’s Colin Freeman.

11 February 2021 By Paul Martin

Ten years on from Egypt’s Arab Spring – what has become of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries?  Protests in Cairo in 2011 sparked the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. But did it really change anything? By Colin Freeman 24 January 2021 A woman waves an Egyptian national flag from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, Cairo on […]

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A new drug may be key breakthrough in curing Covid. It’s said to have cured 29 of 30 moderate to serious COVID cases in days.

7 February 2021 By Paul Martin

Doctors in Tel Aviv have tested drugs that they say will stop the body killing itself in a terrible overreaction to a Covid virus invasion. British doctors say a large proportion of Covid deaths are caused by this body response. In a ‘huge breakthrough’ ,  Ichilov Hospital director Roni Gamzu said the research “gives us […]

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Bugs in your gut, transplanted, can help reduce someone else’s cancer.

4 February 2021 By Paul Martin

For some cancer patients, a “poo transplant” could boost the positive effects of immunotherapy, a treatment designed to rally the immune system against cancer cells.  Not all cancer patients respond to immunotherapy drugs. For example, only about 40% of patients with advanced melanoma, a type of skin cancer, reap long-term benefit from the drugs, according to recent estimates. In trying […]

Corona and Covid Fake News Talking Points

Statistics prove it: British teachers, especially those in primary schools, are at no greater risk of dying from Covid-19 than any other working group. What are the implications, then, for fully reopening schools?

3 February 2021 By Paul Martin

There are lies and lies — and statistics. Or so goes the old adage. Actually that’s not quite true. There are lies and lies — and there are misleading statistics, would be a better way to phrase it. This time, though, the BBC has got its facts and its statistics spot-on. A radio programme called […]