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- Myanmar: four reported dead as police fire on pro-democracy protesters
- CPAC: Trump to make first post-White House speech at rightwing summit
- Coronavirus live news: UK budget will set out plan to address economic damage; US approves Johnson & Johnson jab
- Hong Kong: 47 democracy activists charged with subversion under security law
- Miami Beach to cut back on famous palm trees over climate concerns
- Workers at firm owned by top Trump donors exposed to higher Covid rates
- 'I'm operating': doctor makes Zoom court appearance while in surgery
- Pope Francis expects to remain pontiff until his death
- BBC’s Sonja McLaughlan reveals online abuse over Owen Farrell interview
- Will the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of pelota bounce back as a centre of Spanish culture?
- Covid vaccine does not affect fertility but misinformation persists
- What can we learn from Africa's experience of Covid?
- ‘I’ve had my vaccine - how well will it protect me and for how long?’
- Real-world effectiveness of the Covid jabs | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
- Oprah with Meghan and Harry: masterstroke or disaster?
- My boyfriend spends all his time selling weed. Should I leave? | Dear Mariella
- Lakeith Stanfield: ‘I don’t hold anything back’
- Old-school Stellantis car factories gear up for the shock of electric
- New haircuts, old ideology: film warns of shifting far-right strategy in Europe
- Dark side of wonderland: ahead of V&A show, book explores Alice’s occult link
- Don’t let pandemic losers slide further in a K-shaped recovery
- Theatre designer warns of obstacles for arts workers in Europe post-Brexit
- The tourists who flock to Dubai seem happy to overlook a few missing princesses | Catherine Bennett
- Golden Trump statue turning heads at CPAC was made in … Mexico
- Liberal senator refers rape allegation against unnamed Labor politician to AFP
- Myanmar police fire teargas and rubber bullets in violent crackdown on protesters – video
| Myanmar: four reported dead as police fire on pro-democracy protesters Posted: 27 Feb 2021 08:30 PM PST Three fatalities in Dawei and one in Yangon, local media say, as military junta launches most aggressive crackdown so far Police in Myanmar have fired tear gas, stun grenades and sprayed live ammunition into the air in an attempt to stamp out a major anti-coup rally, their most aggressive nationwide crackdown since the military seized power. Four people have reportedly been killed in the violence, including three men in the southern town of Dawei, where at least 20 others have been injured according to Agence France-Presse. One man was also killed in Yangon, while several others were injured. Medics who had gone on strike in protest against the military coup went back to work in Yangon general hospital emergency department to treat the wounded. Continue reading... |
| CPAC: Trump to make first post-White House speech at rightwing summit Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Conference seeks to shore up Trump's position as Republican standard bearer even after he lost the presidency and Congress Donald Trump returns to the political stage on Sunday determined to show that he is still a major force in America and ready to purge his critics within the Republican party. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:43 AM PST Rishi Sunak to set out plans to tackle economic impact of Covid; Australian state of Victoria reports zero new cases; Auckland seven-day lockdown begins;
Sunak is now on Marr. He acknowledges that the national debt is sensitive to interest rate increases and says that he was only able to respond to the current crisis because of the strength of the public finances. He reiterates many of the same points he made on Sky News, again saying that he wants to "level with people" about the steps that need to be taken.
Dodds' position - opposing immediate corporation tax rises but saying that the policy must be addressed in the longterm - will have sounded contorted to many viewers and maintained the prospect of Labour voting against taxes on business profits which a Conservative government is backing. But former strategic advisor to Jeremy Corbyn James Mills argues on Twitter that she has at least avoided being boxed into opposing tax rises in perpetuity: good pivot by Dodds moving on from tax rises *now* linking to council tax rises in May for reasons below, so not boxing Labour into opposing tax rises over the next few years announced next week... #Marr https://t.co/6oe0Dk6zG6 Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong: 47 democracy activists charged with subversion under security law Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:57 PM PST Group accused of organising an unofficial election last July in the largest single crackdown on campaigners Forty-seven Hong Kong democrats and activists have been charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, in the largest single crackdown on the democratic opposition under a China-imposed national security law. Sam Cheung, a young activist and a participant in an unofficial primary election last summer, was charged after reporting to a local police station on Sunday, dressed in a black mask and accompanied by his wife. Continue reading... |
| Miami Beach to cut back on famous palm trees over climate concerns Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST City to plant shadier trees to preserve its environment, keep people cool, reduce urban warming and improve air quality As a poster child for the climate emergency, Miami Beach has become a world leader in mitigating the effects of sea-level rise. Now the subtropical Florida city is cutting back on its famous swaying palm trees as it seeks shadier alternatives to preserve its environment and try to keep residents and visitors cool. Related: Republicans push 'blue-collar comeback' – but is the party a true friend of the worker? Continue reading... |
| Workers at firm owned by top Trump donors exposed to higher Covid rates Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Employees at Uline, owned by billionaires Dick and Liz Uihlein, have filed numerous safety complaints, investigation finds Employees at a private Wisconsin company owned by two top Republican donors in the US have faced significantly higher rates of Covid-19 infection and have filed numerous complaints about workplace safety to federal authorities, according to a Guardian investigation into Uline. Related: Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results Continue reading... |
| 'I'm operating': doctor makes Zoom court appearance while in surgery Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:02 PM PST California medical board to investigate after plastic surgeon appeared at a virtual trial from an operating theatre Medical authorities in California have said they will investigate a plastic surgeon who appeared in a videoconference for a traffic violation trial while operating. The Sacramento Bee reported that Scott Green appeared for his trial at Sacramento superior court on Thursday, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, from an operating room. Continue reading... |
| Pope Francis expects to remain pontiff until his death Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:12 PM PST In a new book, Francis says he expects to die in Rome, not his native Argentina, either as 'active or emeritus' pope Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, still the Catholic pontiff, without returning to spend his final days in his native Argentina, according to a new book titled The Health of Popes. In an interview granted to Argentinian journalist and physician Nelson Castro at the Vatican in February 2019, the pope said he thinks about death, but does not fear it. Continue reading... |
| BBC’s Sonja McLaughlan reveals online abuse over Owen Farrell interview Posted: 27 Feb 2021 02:55 PM PST
Sonja McLaughlan, the BBC rugby reporter, was the target of online abuse following the live broadcast of England's 40-24 Six Nations defeat to Wales in Cardiff. Related: Sheedy holds nerve as Wales make England pay in Six Nations thriller Continue reading... |
| Will the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of pelota bounce back as a centre of Spanish culture? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:30 PM PST Campaigners call for historic sports venue in Madrid to become a world heritage site after its €38m restoration Beneath a pale-blue late-winter sky, and behind an elegant but unassuming facade, one of Madrid's great unsung survivors sits waiting, once more, for news of the latest in a long and improbable series of metamorphoses. Since its inauguration 127 years ago, the Frontón Beti-Jai, built at the height of the Spanish capital's love affair with the Basque game of pelota, has echoed with the crack of leather-stitched balls, with cheers, screams, the thrill of invention, the gunning of thirsty American engines and, most recently, the chirping of the birds who nested in its almost terminal decay. Continue reading... |
| Covid vaccine does not affect fertility but misinformation persists Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:15 PM PST Scientists emphasise safety but younger women still hesitant Amy Taylor was chatting to friends over a Zoom drink when the conversation took an unexpected turn. One of the group – all in their early 30s, mostly university-educated and in professional jobs – mentioned that she had concerns about the Covid vaccine because she wanted to try for a baby in the next year or two. "I was surprised when others said they were also a bit anxious. Then I started thinking maybe I should be worried too – even though I'm pro-vaccinations and I know this is the way out of the pandemic," said Taylor*. "This really plays into the fertility insecurity that lots of women in their 30s have anyway – have I left it too late, will I need IVF, should I freeze my eggs? We don't want anything else that could interfere with our chances of motherhood." Continue reading... |
| What can we learn from Africa's experience of Covid? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST Though a hundred thousand people have died, initial predictions were far worse, giving rise to many theories on 'the African paradox' As Africa emerges from its second wave of Covid-19, one thing is clear: having officially clocked up more than 3.8m cases and more than 100,000 deaths, it hasn't been spared. But the death toll is still lower than experts predicted when the first cases were reported in Egypt just over a year ago. The relative youth of African populations compared with those in the global north – while a major contributing factor – may not entirely explain the discrepancy. So what is really going on in Africa, and what does that continent's experience of Covid-19 teach us about the disease and ourselves? "If anyone had told me one year ago that we would have 100,000 deaths from a new infection by now, I would not have believed them," says John Nkengasong, the Cameroonian virologist who directs the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Incidentally, he deplores the shocking normalisation of death that this pandemic has driven: "One hundred thousand deaths is a lot of deaths," he says. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’ve had my vaccine - how well will it protect me and for how long?’ Posted: 27 Feb 2021 01:06 PM PST The latest answers to the important medical questions about the vaccines and the pandemic The prospects of vaccines failing to trigger immune responses are dismissed as remote by scientists. "If a vaccine has not been properly refrigerated that might pose problems but doctors take great care to ensure that doesn't happen," said Prof Helen Fletcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "Frankly the only other way to get a failed reaction is for the doctor to miss your arm – which isn't likely." Continue reading... |
| Real-world effectiveness of the Covid jabs | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:15 PM PST Behind the numbers: the policy of giving as many first jabs as possible is already cutting hospital admission rates We should by now be familiar with the idea of a vaccine's efficacy, but last Monday three analyses of vaccine effectiveness were published. Despite the confusing similarity, these are different concepts: efficacy is measured in tightly controlled clinical trials, effectiveness is how well a vaccine works in the messy real world. In trials, healthy volunteers are put in vaccinated and control groups at random – this ensures the groups are comparable and differences in outcomes must be due to the vaccine. If we simply compare people who have been jabbed with those who have not, they will differ in all sorts of ways: older and other higher-risk people will be first in the queue, while communities that are hesitant to be vaccinated may also be at higher risk. These confounders can lead to systemic bias in estimating effectiveness. So, studies use elaborate statistical analysis to make fair comparisons. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Oprah with Meghan and Harry: masterstroke or disaster? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 01:00 PM PST The Sussexes are the latest in a line of celebrities to try to rebuild their image by talking to the chatshow queen You could have forgiven the British royal family for giving primetime, tell-all interviews a wide berth for the foreseeable. The evisceration of Prince Andrew by the BBC's Emily Maitlis in 2019 managed to achieve the near-impossible: making the Duke of York appear more dubious and less sympathetic. But if we have learned one thing about the Sussexes, Harry and Meghan, it's that they are intent on doing pretty much the opposite of what the other royals want them to do. So next Sunday, 7 March, a 90-minute special, Oprah with Meghan and Harry, will air on the US network CBS. There is also understood to be a bidding war between UK broadcasters – though not the BBC – for the interview, which, it is promised, will be "intimate" and "wide-ranging". Continue reading... |
| My boyfriend spends all his time selling weed. Should I leave? | Dear Mariella Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Your relationship sounds unworkable and toxic, says Mariella Frostrup. Find someone you can confide in or get professional help The dilemma My boyfriend's work ground to a halt as a result of the pandemic, and his weed-smoking habit has expanded within that void to become a lifestyle. He buys, sells and grows the stuff, meaning that he's meeting strangers on a daily basis, often in our home. My initial response was anger that he could so readily endanger my health for the sake of a habit I despise. Then I began to wonder if he was struggling mentally, so I tried to be more supportive. But it became clear he is just doing it for fun (I think he thrills at the criminal element). He comes from a wealthy family and my salary is ample to cover our bills if he falls short, so this isn't a necessary earner. Continue reading... |
| Lakeith Stanfield: ‘I don’t hold anything back’ Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Imagination, energy and a surrealist streak have made Lakeith Stanfield one of Hollywood's most unusual – and sought-after – stars. Here, he talks about his toughest role yet To spread the word about his anarchic, brilliantly batshit 2018 comedy Sorry to Bother You, the actor Lakeith Stanfield adopted an anarchic, brilliantly batshit strategy. He went to one of his favourite stores, Iguana Vintage Clothing, in Los Angeles, and cleared out every wig they had. Then he drove around cinemas in Hollywood, bought tickets for the film, stashed them inside the wigs, and hid them outside the cinemas. "Then people engaged in it, on a wild goose hunt," explains Stanfield, his voice deep and languid. "There's a lost art in being able to have fun with a film in the release. But it was a film that I thought was fun, right? So I wanted to have fun, and I wanted people to engage in that fun with me. Also I loved the movie so much, I wanted people to see it for free." Continue reading... |
| Old-school Stellantis car factories gear up for the shock of electric Posted: 27 Feb 2021 04:05 PM PST Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant is one of many whose future lies in the hands of the merged auto giant Carlos Tavares is an unashamed petrolhead, with a rally-racing hobby that harks back to an earlier automotive age. Yet carmakers like Stellantis, which he leads, and its rivals have had to set aside affection for roaring internal combustion engines as environmental rules set the limits for the industry. Stellantis was formed in January in a €50bn (£43bn) merger between France's Peugeot and Italian-American Fiat Chrysler, in one of the clearest responses to the Tesla-driven electric revolution: the merger will allow them to share expensive investments in battery technology. Continue reading... |
| New haircuts, old ideology: film warns of shifting far-right strategy in Europe Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST They've ditched the shaven heads but, despite recent setbacks, they remain a threat, says film-maker Christian Schwochow Inside a university auditorium in Prague, a young man in a crisp black shirt and white trainers is railing against the pro-immigration politicians he holds responsible for a recent Islamist terror attack in Berlin. To build a safer Europe, he yells, "we have to get rid of those responsible for these murderous policies". A woman in the crowd voices her support with a shout of "Sieg heil!", but he is quick to shut her down: "That was yesterday." Like-minded movements of the future will succeed by remaining outwardly respectable: "We can protect the foundations of Europe by occupying them," he proclaims, his blue eyes sparkling, "by becoming economists, teachers, judges." Continue reading... |
| Dark side of wonderland: ahead of V&A show, book explores Alice’s occult link Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:45 PM PST As museum prepares to celebrate Lewis Carroll's heroine, ties to mysticism and magical societies have come to light in a new work, Through a Looking Glass Darkly Great art spawns imitation. And great weird art, it seems, spawns still weirder flights of fancy. Lewis Carroll's twin children's fantasies, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There have both inspired a string of adaptations, artistic and musical responses down the generations. Now, as the Victoria & Albert Museum prepares to celebrate Alice and her cultural influence in Curiouser & Curiouser, a landmark exhibition next month, a new book containing unseen original images is to expose the secrets behind the darker world of the second Alice story. Continue reading... |
| Don’t let pandemic losers slide further in a K-shaped recovery Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:10 PM PST It goes against conservative instincts, but another £100bn should be spent on improving the prospects of those worst hit by Covid It's time we talked about "K". Britain, it's now commonly agreed, will be climbing out of our economic nadir in the months ahead even if the rate of recovery is unclear – but what worries thoughtful economists, notably but not only the new US treasury secretary Janet Yellen, is its Covid-dominated K character. Essentially winners from the pandemic – the better-off, hi-tech companies, leading brands, the healthy, those whose work held up over lockdown and live in prosperous neighbourhoods – are going to do even better, moving up the upward-sloping part of the K. Continue reading... |
| Theatre designer warns of obstacles for arts workers in Europe post-Brexit Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:45 AM PST Andrew Edwards urges government in open letter to reopen talks to renegotiate an EU-wide visa system for arts workers A British opera and theatre designer has told of an "intimidating" post Brexit experience in Schiphol airport in Amsterdam which nearly cost him his first paid job since the pandemic started a year ago. Andrew Edwards says the "roadblock" he experienced is a foretaste of the "humiliation" to come once Europe reopens its borders with musicians, crews, and crafts people working in the arts now required to have paperwork to ply their trade in each country. Continue reading... |
| The tourists who flock to Dubai seem happy to overlook a few missing princesses | Catherine Bennett Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Human rights abuses cut little ice with holidaymakers who rush to the beach How many abducted and imprisoned princesses would it take for British tourists to turn their backs on Dubai? Three? Four? Ten? Because two "disappeared" princesses doesn't look like being enough, even now that a secretly filmed account by one of them, saying she had been captured, assaulted, drugged and repatriated, has appeared on the BBC – corroborating the fact-finding judgment of a UK judge, published a year ago. Sir Andrew McFarlane accepted, following claims by lawyers for Princess Haya, a fugitive ex-wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai, vice-president of the UAE, that his daughters Latifa and Shamsa had both been forcibly returned to Dubai after escaping in 2018 and 2000 respectively. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it emerged, was withholding information that might shed light on Shamsa's rendition from the UK. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Golden Trump statue turning heads at CPAC was made in … Mexico Posted: 27 Feb 2021 08:13 AM PST Artist Tommy Zegan reveals figure was constructed in country the former president has assailed and demonized A golden statue of Donald Trump that has caused a stir at the annual US gathering of conservatives was made in Mexico – a country the former president frequently demonized. Related: Mitch McConnell says he'd 'absolutely' support Trump as 2024 nominee Continue reading... |
| Liberal senator refers rape allegation against unnamed Labor politician to AFP Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:52 AM PST Sarah Henderson says she forwarded federal police email from woman alleging she was raped by a man now in parliament Liberal senator Sarah Henderson has referred a rape allegation against an unnamed Labor member of parliament to the federal police. Henderson announced the move on Sunday evening, citing AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw's advice that allegations of criminal conduct should be referred to the police immediately. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar police fire teargas and rubber bullets in violent crackdown on protesters – video Posted: 27 Feb 2021 09:45 AM PST A woman has reportedly been shot and killed as police in Myanmar escalated a violent crackdown on anti-coup protesters, firing teargas and rubber bullets and detaining dozens of people. Protesters who attempted to gather for peaceful rallies on Saturday were met with an aggressive response by security forces in the two biggest cities, Yangon and Mandalay, and in the central town of Monywa, where a woman was shot dead, according to local media reports. Continue reading... |
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