It’s the weekend.
Another week has gone by – and there has been plenty of news going on.
Despite us still being in lockdown there’s still a lot going on.
Learning the lessons of the COVID crisis.
Did the UK government get ti right from when they found out about Covid-19? Are 100,000 + deaths a positive reflection of their response? Could they have made much more informed decisions similar to many other countries?
Donald Trump on trial. Again
In America, Donald Trump‘s second impeachment trial started and Tom Lane reveals how the insurrection was at least ten years in the making.
You may have read the standing orders, but did you understand them?
Chaos on a parish council video meeting saw the star of Jackie Weaver rise.
What caused a deadly Himalayan landslide
Dozens of people have died following a flood in northern India amid the world’s highest peaks. Satellite imagery shows that a crack in a mountain may be to blame. Climate change is at the heart of the investigation and the effect that receding glaciers is having on dams.
Investigation finds that Covid deniers and anti vaxxers are fleecing the public
NHS workers and the police have expressed serious concerns that the people who spread those theories are a “genuine problem”, whose “fake news” may damage generations to come.
Storm Darcy brings a chill
It may be far too late for a white Christmas, but there was still plenty of snow this week as Storm Darcy swept in from the east and dusted large parts of Britain.
Why is 2021 going to be the best year for releasing beavers?
Plans developed by Wildlife Trusts of Dorset, Derbyshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Nottinghamshire and Montgomeryshire will see new beaver families moving into these counties for the first time.
Why is Keir Starmer’s Labour party not taking racism seriously?
Why has the treatment of racism got so much worse than when Jeremy Corbyn was leader?
Daily Mail held to account for “their illegal and dehumanising practices”
Why does the Daily Mail continue to be so toxic…?
And finally…
Steve Irwin’s son Robert has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award, for a stunning overhead drone shot of a bushfire in Australia.
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