The headline of a surprisingly candid article in The Times by Dr Raghib Ali, of Cambridge University, on October 22 2020 declared: “Racism wasn’t to blame for differing Covid death rates.”
The British Medical Journal has pointed out that there are huge advantages in using a rapid saliva test for Covid, even though they appear to be 20 per cent less accuracte in detecting the disease. A very convincing American analysis has already shown its benefits, as correspondent.world previously reported. Here’s what the BMJ wrote: In […]
Facing a death toll that is proportionally the worst in the world relative to its population size, Iran has been supplying its armed forces and paramilitary units with a Covid-19 detection device that is fake. They are thought to be the same (or very similar) contraptions to the ones sold to Iraq and a range […]
Is it necessary to send small children home from school when one in a ‘bubble’ gets Covid? And the scandal of letting parents congregate outside schools and not properly social-distancing. 11 September 2020 By PAUL MARTIN Is it time for the UK government to get a dose of educational and medical reality? Why has the government made […]
It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge.
On October 6 1980 I watched Anwar Sadat at the peak of his powers, reviewing his troops at a military ‘Victory Parade’ in Cairo. One year later, I was reporting from Cairo as he was shot dead at the same location, along with ten others.
Each year between a quarter of a million people and half a million people die from flu or influenza, depending largely on how virulent each new strain of flu is. [Covid-19 is even deadlier: over a million people have been reportedly killed by the pandemic this year so far.] Predicting which strain of flu will […]
Covid-19’s impact on business and trade has led to a surge in applications to do online courses around Britain. Britain’s largest institute for higher education, the Open University, has been enlisting a higher number of students for this academic year. The majority of the ‘extra’ students are thought to be part-timers who continue to have […]
The long-time Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat blamed Israeli leaders for his entrapment inside his West Bank headquarters, according to a recently-discovered transcript of Arafat’s final television interview.
US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg hung on to her commitment to staying on for life. What’s more, the 87-year-old was pleased the US administration was unable to cut her slaary – even though she was on the extreme liberal wing of a court that makes key rulings on government actions. ______________________________________________________ You don’t […]