20 h. ago ‘Immediate red flags’: questions raised over ‘expert’ much quoted in UK press

News outlets pull articles featuring ‘psychologist and sex adviser’ Barbara Santini amid doubts over her credentialsOver the past couple of years, the Oxford-educated psychologist Barbara Santini has been widely quoted as an expert. She has contributed thoughts on everything from the psychological impact of the Covid pandemic to the importance of vitamin D and how playing darts can improve your health.However, her pronouncements have begun to disappear from articles after concerns that Santini may not be all that she appears. Major news outlets have removed entire articles featuring Santini, or comments made by her, after a series of questions were raised over her qualifications – and even whether her entire identity could be an elaborate hoax. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

Site that once provided health information now includes criticism of Anthony Fauci, who led response to pandemicUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has replaced Covid.gov – a website that once provided Americans with access to information about free tests, vaccines, treatment and secondary conditions such as long Covid – with a treatise on the “lab leak” theory.The site includes intense criticism of Dr Anthony Fauci, who helmed national Covid policies under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the World Health Organization (WHO) and state leadership in New York. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Fears of the economy tanking are now higher than they were at the height of the Covid pandemic

Dismal fund manager sentiment comes as Federal Reserve warns of increased inflation and slowing growth due to tariffs

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3 d. ago California homeless man wins $2.4 million wrongful termination lawsuit but he’s nowhere to be found

Daniel Ridge, 49, suffers from PTSD and depression and fell into homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic

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3 d. ago WHO member countries agree on a draft 'pandemic treaty' to try to avoid COVID

The World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis

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3 d. ago Pair of Irish mothers who broke Covid rules during trip to Dubai for boob job during pandemic walk free from court

Kirstie McGrath, 34, and Niamh Mulreany, 29, both from Dublin were arrested upon their return from the United Arab Emirates on April 2, 2021.

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4 d. ago WHO tests the world’s pandemic response with fictional ‘mammothpox’ outbreak

The WHO simulation exercise looked at how countries reacted in the wake of another pandemic, five years on from Covid

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7 d. ago ‘It’s going to be messy’: Americans on how Trump’s tariffs are shaping their spending

Fallout from Trump’s trade war is forcing some Guardian readers to cut back or stock up on items from food to carsA few weeks ago, Dane began stocking up on “paper products”, “cases of paper towels, toilet paper”, “piddle-pads” for their shih-tzu, and his wife upgraded from an iPhone 8 to 14.The 73-year-old in South Carolina said the purchases – which were made to get ahead of Donald Trump’s trade policies – reminded him of the early weeks of the Covid pandemic, when he scrambled to buy masks, gloves and toilet paper. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘A new golden age’: how rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed

Trump’s tariffs were sometimes played down, sometimes cheered but rarely seriously questioned by the rightWhile Donald Trump recently instituted and paused hefty tariffs, sparking a trade war and chaos in financial markets, most of the country’s conservative media either applauded the US president or critiqued the policy but not the person behind it, according to journalists and observers of conservative media.Meanwhile, economists, business leaders, Democrats and even some Republicans warned that the tariffs, which prompted the largest American stock market drop since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, could cause a recession. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago My father threw out my box of memories then took his own life. How can I move on? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Your sadness at losing reminders of happier times may have been heightened by the traumatic loss of your dad• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a readerNot long before the Covid pandemic, my dad threw out my cardboard box of mementoes that I had stored in his garage for “safekeeping”: years’ worth of personal journals, Polaroids and photos with no negatives, love letters, all of my degree essays, reams of teenage poetry, etc – the classic priceless time capsule stuff that one looks forward to revisiting one day.It was one of his final acts before taking his own life, so it was a double whammy of bereavement in which my first loss was buried by the second. And, with the pandemic arriving shortly afterwards, it stayed buried for further years as, again, I was distracted by something else serious happening. But once that had passed, the original grief returned with a vengeance and has become an abiding sorrow that’s been difficult to shake off: the feeling tha...

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8 d. ago Will global climate action be a casualty of Trump’s tariffs?

Clean energy investors likely to pull back from US, but other countries may seize opportunity to speed transitionDonald Trump’s upending of the global economy has raised fears that climate action could emerge as a casualty of the trade war.In the week that has followed “liberation day”, economic experts have warned that the swathe of tariffs could trigger a global economic recession, with far-reaching consequences for investors – including those behind the green energy projects needed to meet climate goals. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Alcohol deaths surge in UK with more than 4,000 people lost since the Covid pandemic

Disturbing research finds alcohol specific deaths rocketed since the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, with more than 4,000 people dying from alcohol than expect, as the Government is urged to take 'urgent action'

Events

1 week ago The reason why UK seaside property is taking weeks longer to sell

During the Covid-19 pandemic, a shift to flexible working and a reassessment of lifestyle priorities led to a surge in demand for rural homes

Politics

1 week ago How ‘liberation day’ rout compares with other notorious stock market crises

A swift loss of £4tn from global stock markets has led some to liken Trump’s trade war to 1929 Wall Street crashBusiness live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s escalating trade war has plunged global financial markets into the steepest rout since the spread of the Covid pandemic five years ago.Drawing parallels with the 1929 Wall Street crash and the ensuing 1930s Great Depression, the US president’s “liberation day” tariff plan has led to warnings of a global recession from leading economists. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK is 'not prepared' for another pandemic as fears over deadly new viruses grow

EXCLUSIVE: Last month, the UK marked the grim milestone of five years since being plunged into lockdown as the Covid pandemic tore through the country - now we ask experts how prepared are we for another?

Events

2 w. ago Obese Scots dad sheds over 3st after being unable to look in mirror

Thomas McKay, 32, topped over 14st at his heaviest after becoming a father and gaining weight in the Covid pandemic.

Politics

2 w. ago Trump tariffs live: Global stocks sink and FTSE sees biggest drop since Covid pandemic on second day of market turmoil

Beijing hits back after president’s ‘Liberation Day’ wipes $2.4trn from S&P 500, in biggest one-day loss since March 2020

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2 w. ago Stock markets continue to fall as fears over Trump’s trade war dragging down the economy fuel sell

Friday’s stock market comes after a historically bad day as investors react to Trump’s tariff plan

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2 w. ago Tell us: have your pension savings been affected by turbulent stockmarkets?

We’re interested to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been faring amid sharp ups and downs in recent months and years, and how this may affect themUS president Donald Trump’s trade war, political elections and societal shifts ushering in dramatic change and dire public finances in multiple countries, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic have been creating tumultous conditions on international markets for the past few years.We’d like to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been affected by this series of economic shocks. Has your invested portfolio sustained big losses, or have you enjoyed staggering stockmarket gains? How may you and your plans be affected by it all? Tell us. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tell us: have your pension savings been affected by turbulent stock markets?

We’re interested to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been faring amid sharp ups and downs in recent months and years, and how this may affect themUS president Donald Trump’s trade war, political elections and societal shifts ushering in dramatic change and dire public finances in multiple countries, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic have been creating tumultous conditions on international markets for the past few years.We’d like to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been affected by this series of economic shocks. Has your invested portfolio sustained big losses, or have you enjoyed staggering stock market gains? How may you and your plans be affected by it all? Tell us. Continue reading...

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