THIS letter was sent yesterday to the CEOs of Boots and Pharmadoctor, the two companies set to start offering covid vaccines privately from Monday. Sebastian James, CEO, Boots UK Graham Thoms, CEO, Pharmadoctor Dear Mr James and Mr Thoms, re: Private Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children I am writing to draw your attention urgently to the […]
DR Andrew Kelso, the medical director at NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, has urged the public not to guzzle Easter eggs (or Gesture eggs as a retailer called Freshstore would prefer them to be known) all in one go. He advised that they should be eaten ‘in moderation’ as the NHS braces […]
AN article in the online publication Civil Service World last February announced that former civil servant Sue Gray is working with Labour on plans to introduce citizens’ assemblies should the party, as is likely, win the next election. These assemblies are very much in vogue, with recent examples having allegedly helped secure ‘yes’ votes for abortion and gay marriage in the […]
THE Prayer Book reading for today, Good Friday, from John’s Gospel reveals the profound irony in Pontius Pilate’s refusal to change the inscription on Jesus’s cross from a declaration of objective truth to a subjective claim. All four New Testament Gospels record the inscription on the cross but John’s is the only one to relate […]
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Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has sentenced former FTX crypto wiz and Democratic moneyman Sam Bankman-Fried to twenty-five years in the slammer. For the peculiar, truly twitchy criminal who was convicted of securities fraud after bankrupting his cryptocurrency exchange and a mutual fund, it has to be a victory of sorts, as prosecutors were out for […]
“Good Friday is not just one day of the year,” Fr. Richard John Neuhaus writes in “Death on a Friday Afternoon. “ “It is a day relived in every day of the world, and of our lives in the world.” There is “no denying that the cross is surrounded by glory,” wrote Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in Death […]
There’s a big story in France right now about a high school principal who decided to retire after being sent multiple death threats online by angry Islamists. The principal in question recently had some sort of altercation with a group of female students wearing head scarves in school. Since 2004, France has banned the headscarf […]
The tragic shooting and death of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller is receiving a lot of media attention, as it should. All such cop shootings and those of other first responders should be covered as the heartbreaking tragedies that they are. It is important to remember that the vast majority of Americans are generous and compassionate […]
Remember when progressives decided to flee Twitter/X because it had become a hellish pit of despair once Elon Musk bought it and allowed conservatives to talk? Meta tried to capitalize on that exodus by introducing Threads, another copy of Twitter which promised to be a safe space for the left. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to […]
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