The phone calls are the worst thing, says Adar Poonawalla, the biggest manufacturer of vaccines in the world. They are incessant and very menacing, adds the man whose Serum Institute is producing 90 | Continue reading
Unnecessary secrecy in government leads to arrogant governance and defective decision-making. These were the words of the Labour cabinet minister David Clark, now Lord Clark, in the proposals he | Continue reading
Recently we’ve accepted the idea that the suffering of mental illness, though different from a broken leg or a virus, is real. The next taboo is surely psychosomatic illness (or functional disorder | Continue reading
The Chinese economy grew by a record 18.3 per cent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier when the country first went into lockdown.The growth was the strongest since quarterly records | Continue reading
Scientists have been told to take special precautions to stop bats catching the coronavirus from humans.The US Geological Survey (USGS) has advised American researchers studying endangered bats in the | Continue reading
Lex Greensill was the odd one out. As David Cameron, then the prime minister, announced a new policy to business leaders gathered in Downing Street on October 23, 2012, he was flanked by three of his | Continue reading
They were here before us. They may be here after us. They’re in the air. They’re in our guts. They’re in our risotto. They are among the most expensive organisms on earth and the largest. They’re not | Continue reading
Few people can bend Tom Cruise to their every whim. Yet Chris Ume can. When Ume waves his fingers, the Hollywood star can found playing golf or enthusing about magic.Yet Cruise has never actually met | Continue reading
I was taking part in an online seminar with several hundred public servants recently when one of them started his question to me with an earnest apology: “I am a man of white privilege . . .”. I found | Continue reading
If your broadband is pleasingly speedy, it is in part due to the insight of Alec Gambling, who guided a series of breakthroughs in the design of optical fibres. Hardly wider than a hair, these fibres | Continue reading
Tom Cruise looks at the camera. “I’m going to show you some magic,” he says holding up a coin. “It’s the real thing”, the Hollywood actor insists, giving his trademark laugh and making the coin | Continue reading
Anna Hadley had waited almost two years for a new heart after being told she had a terminal condition.Now the 16-year-old from Worcester is healthy and playing hockey again, thanks to British surgeons | Continue reading
One of the tallest wooden buildings in Europe, a 98m timber hybrid skyscraper, is to rise from the marshy ground of central Berlin.The 29-storey WoHo tower, which will be designed by a firm of | Continue reading
Joggers who jiggle should stop fooling themselves: the idea that you can be chubby but healthy is false, a study suggests.The debate has raged for years: is it better to be a stout sportsperson who | Continue reading
A father and son have successfully won a legal battle against Apple after it refused to refund a £540 charge for a gaming app that described itself as free.John Greenwood, 56, a magazine editor from | Continue reading
Petrol and diesel car owners could be fined for parking in electric vehicle charging bays under an automated system designed to stop “bay blocking”.Sensors installed in electric bays can be used to | Continue reading
As one of Star Trek’s most beloved characters, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott spent a lifetime exploring the galaxy on the USS Enterprise, boldly going beyond the final frontier.Now it can be revealed that | Continue reading
Facebook has moved one of its most important intellectual properties out of Ireland, ending a financial arrangement used to move billions in profits through the country largely untaxed.New documents | Continue reading
The coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and Astra Zeneca is expected to win approval this week as the head of the drugs giant said it “should be” effective against the highly | Continue reading
Two prolific British trophy hunters are unmasked today as a network of trolls targets Boris Johnson’s government for threatening to clamp down on big-game hunting.Abigail Day, a Cambridge-educated | Continue reading
BelgiumShutting shops at the end of October was a “psychological shock” tactic to bring home the need for restrictions to arrest the spread of the virus, the country’s health minister has admitted. | Continue reading
A Dublin hacker’s conviction for stealing more than $2 million in cryptocurrencies may affect a US request for his surrender, the High Court was told.Siobhán Ní Chúlacháin, BL, said that Conor Freeman | Continue reading
China’s military used microwave weapons to force Indian troops to retreat during a months-long border standoff in the Himalayas, according to an account that has emerged in Beijing.Its forces had | Continue reading
So, was last weekend’s Downing Street briefing on the need for a second lockdown Boris Johnson’s equivalent of Tony Blair’s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Are the government’s medical advisers the | Continue reading
The “world-beating” NHS Covid app, downloaded by 19 million people, has systematically failed to send alerts telling people to self-isolate after they came into contact with infected people.Thousands | Continue reading
Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts | Continue reading
Coronavirus survivors may be at risk of lasting cognitive damage, according to a study that found that in the worst cases the infection can cause mental decline equivalent to an 8.5-point fall in IQ | Continue reading
My starting point was clear: banking was broken. And I had a ringside seat to view just how badly it had fallen apart — I was group chief operating officer of Allied Irish Banks (AIB), based in Dublin | Continue reading
A Russian disinformation campaign designed to undermine and spread fear about the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine has been exposed by a Times investigation.Pictures, memes and video clips | Continue reading
It has already cornered the market in vacuum cleaners and hand dryers but Dyson is not content to stop there. The British company has its sights set on higher education, with plans to provide its own | Continue reading
Companies collecting data for pubs and restaurants to help them fulfil their contact-tracing duties are harvesting confidential customer information to sell.Legal experts have warned of a “privacy | Continue reading
One of the world’s largest academic publishers has been accused of bowing to Beijing after Taiwanese scientists had their papers rejected for refusing to be called Chinese.Academics have revealed that | Continue reading
Sir Roger Penrose is standing outside the Mathematical Institute in Oxford in his tweed jacket, his hair flapping in the wind, explaining the astonishing rhomboid tiling scheme he invented in the | Continue reading
Staring down at a procession of defendants brought into the criminal courts each day, New York City judges must decide within moments whether the accused can be trusted to return for a trial.Now there | Continue reading
Sweden registered its lowest rate of positive coronavirus tests yet even as its testing regime has been expanded to record levels, in what some experts regard as a vindication of its comparatively | Continue reading
Motorists could be allowed to take their hands off the steering wheel while on the road for the first time in a big step towards fully driverless cars.The Department for Transport (DfT) published | Continue reading
Flu and pneumonia are killing five times as many people as coronavirus at present, with Covid deaths at their lowest since the end of March, figures show.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said | Continue reading
Apple is pushing for huge rent reductions across its UK stores despite its sales soaring to new heights during the lockdown.The tech giant has told landlords of a portion of its 38-store estate in the | Continue reading
There has been no recorded case of a teacher catching the coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world, according to one of the government’s leading scientific advisers.Mark Woolhouse, a leading | Continue reading
Some BBC journalists have become addicted to Twitter, the corporation’s head of standards has admitted as he warned that staff must be careful about how they use the “toxic” platform.The broadcaster | Continue reading
Joseph O’Connor is a 21-year-old from Liverpool who lives in Spain with his mother, likes computer games and loves his pug dog. Last week he found himself at the centre of a global hunt, accused in | Continue reading
Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychology professor and bestselling author, who was one of the signatories of the letter to Harper’s protesting against a climate of intolerance, has claimed he is the | Continue reading
In the monsoon season of August 2012 a small team of scientists travelled to southwest China to investigate a new and mysteriously lethal illness. After driving through terraced tea plantations, they | Continue reading
“Now don’t worry,” the cameraman told me. “Nobody gets it on the first take. We’ll do as many as we need.”He was about to film me talking about my debut novel for Eason, an Irish bookstore chain. He | Continue reading
Britain’s worst naval disaster in the Second World War resulted from an ambitious secret mission rather than the folly of the main warship’s commander, a new investigation by the grandson of one of | Continue reading
The United States would be defeated in a sea war with China and would struggle to stop an invasion of Taiwan, according to a series of “eye-opening” war games by the Pentagon.American defence sources | Continue reading
SIR JAMES DYSON AND FAMILYRANK: 1Household goods and technology£16.2bn ▲£3.6bn2019: £12.6bn, 5“This is the first one that ran. I drove it secretly in a screened-off compound we have here,” says Sir | Continue reading
Hundreds of technology businesses could be frozen out of the emergency package for start-ups, the chancellor has been told.A group of 32 chief executives of technology and life science companies wrote | Continue reading