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75 years ago yesterday (h/t Tom Gross) SS troops murdered 20 Jewish children and at least 28 adults in the basement of a school at Bullenhuser Damm 92-94 in Hamburg.
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The FT headline "Coronavirus death toll in UK twice as high as official figure" needs some qualification, above all that it is an FT extrapolation of previous stats. Not a
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Let me try a clarify the confusing blizzard of stats re Covid-19 in UK.The latest sharp rise in Covid-related deaths takes the total toll to almost 17,400. This is an
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Some Irish pundits have asked why UK media has not made more of fact that Ireland has had, per capita, roughly half as many deaths as UK, claiming it was
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Too many ridiculous questions at the government press conference. Take the one which effectively asked -- is the government letting people in care homes die so it can prioritise saving
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75 years ago today, British troops in the 11th Armoured Division liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, encountering unimaginable horror. A number of survivors later made Britain their home. Today we should
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Confusion deepens over government’s procurement of new ventilators. According to the head of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, the specification for UK’s hospital ventilator programme will not produce machines
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Trump to stop funding World Health Organisation while US conducts a review of UN agency. Accuses WHO of failing in its response to covid-19 + spreading Chinese disinformation about its
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According to research by Deep Knowledge Group (DKG), a Hong Kong venture capital group specialising in medicines, Germany is the second safest country in the world during Covid-19 pandemic, with
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French aviation investigators have shed new light on the pensioner given a surprise flight in a Rafale-B fighter jet as a retirement present. He was flung out at 2,500ft after
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None of new mechanical ventilators developed for treating coronavirus patients, whose production anxious ministers have encouraged, has yet obtained UK regulatory approval. Including the Dyson version + one developed by
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Some thoughts on weekly deaths, England & Wales. We now have the ONS stats up til March 20th. Weekly deaths in 2020 have actually been trending bit below previous 5-year
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