Using power and privilege to exploit the weak and vulnerable in the face of a common threat is morally repugnant. Call it ‘Burring’ after Richard Burr’s stock sell-offSocieties gripped by a cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege.Weeks before the coronavirus virus crushed the Read more
More than 250 villagers were wiped out during the 17th century contagion – but self-imposed quarantine saved lives of countless others in the north Via: Inside Eyam, the heroic plague village where battle with deadly disease saved thousands
‘Please stay home, save lives,’ Hammersmith and Fulham Council tells residents Via: Coronavirus: London borough announces indefinite closure of all parks
Tourists are being advised to stay at home rather than relocate to the countryside Via: Coronavirus: Judy Murray says 'go home idiots' to those heading for Scottish countryside
Move revealed by prime minister’s sister Rachel Via: Brexit: Boris Johnson's father 'applies for French passport'
‘We have no words,’ Royal Free NHS Trust says Via: Coronavirus: London hospital ATM broken into overnight while doctors battle to save patients
The aide tested positive for the bug – which has killed 233 and infected 5,018 in the UK alone – after falling ill last week, sources say. It is not yet known whether the infected staff member got close to the Queen. Via: Worker for the Queen at Buckingham Palace Read more
The UK Government is drawing up plans to buy shares in British Airways and other airlines hit by the Pandemic Crisis to keep them afloat, insiders confirmed (pictured, Grant Shapps). Via: Government 'plans to buy SHARES In British Airways to keep it afloat through coronavirus crisis'
British Airways pilots have opted to take a 50 per cent pay cut in April and May as the company fights for its survival amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Via: British Airways pilots face 50 per cent pay cut in desperate bid to save airline
Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia’s third president 20 years ago. Via: New Channel 4 documentary reveals how Vladimir Putin rose to become Russia's mobster in chief