If you want balance David Smith is the economics and business column to read.

The ugly truth about the <em>Guardian</em> - spiked spiked-online.com/2021/05/05/the…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: those whom the gods will destroy, they first make mad.

Tell us: have you fallen victim to a delivery scam? theguardian.com/money/2021/apr…

Bit of a flaw in the EU case against ⁦AstraZeneca⁩ ....Belgium was warned EU’s AstraZeneca contract lacked teeth : Documents – POLITICO politico.eu/article/belgiu…

Hospital acquired COVID-19 remains a major problem as it STILL accounts for 15% of COVID hospital patients: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… It remains the biggest undiscussed problem in the pandemic to date: a thread.

Is this is what students pay £27,000 for at #SheffieldUniversity ?

Very important if we want to curtail an unreachable generation

So which track by one of our favourite artists proved to be so powerful it made two grown ups on a driving vacation cry. The Sunday Show on JazzFM 1pm UK time will reveal all. Right track at the right time and the power of music doo b doo!

#skypapers #bidisha so it's okay for Londoners to protest but not folk from 'rural England'? Implied was that it's fine for metropolitans to protest, bring London to a standstill, spread disease & vandalise prooerty if it's about the 'right issues'.
That attitude is what's wrong.

Sheer brand butchery Sports Direct SportsDirect.com CS It's so vile I couldn't even give it away. They also sent me a wrong item.

South Africa - home of the notorious variant - now behind only UK and Israel in league table of Covid reduction success.

Full details on Spectator data hub, updated daily: data.spectator.co.uk

Florence Twirl 💃

As Clive Hamilton asks, 'What is Australian sovereignty worth? What price do we put on our independence as a nation?' #auspol #China #HumanRights #universities bit.ly/2RLHWyh

In a word, NO #Google I'm not giving you my birthday. Go away!

Britain’s economic resurgence has caught the whole world by surprise telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…

Watch live: Latest #COVID data from the UK and around the world 🌎

UK data includes daily cases and deaths, the number of vaccines administered, local authorities with highest cases and the proportion of positive tests.

The data will update daily 👇 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

'This is probably the most impressive roll-out of a vaccine in any in the world'

Sir John Bell says 'the clotting problems of the vaccine are pretty trivial compared to the real risks of getting clotting problems if you get COVID'

#COVID19 latest: trib.al/tXwoEkq

Sir John Bell says if Denmark gets hit by the Kent variant in the same way as Germany and France then 'they will have a lot of dead people. Many, many, many more dead people than they would have had if they'd used the AstraZeneca vaccine'

#COVID19 latest trib.al/tXwoEkq