Police seize £114m of cryptocurrency in money laundering sting June 25, 2021 Scotland Yard detectives last night raided a huge money laundering operation in London, seizing more than £100m in cryptocurrency.
Cardiff and Birmingham are UK’s hotspots for credit and debit card fraud June 24, 2021 An increase of fraudulent activity has been reported across the UK during the pandemic, affecting millions of Brits. In fact, nearly one fifth, or 18 per cent, of Brits have experienced credit or debit card fraud, despite nearly three quarters of Brits believing that they would not give out any details to someone claiming to [...]
Dogtanian and The Three Muskehounds: Nostalgia nightmare June 24, 2021 The announcement of a movie adaptation of Dogtanian and The Three Muskehounds was met with nostalgic approval from movie fans of a certain age. Originally a Japanese cartoon series, the canine interpretation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers was re-dubbed into English in the mid-80s and is affectionately remembered by those for whom post-school cartoons [...]
Loki episode 3 review – two of a kind at the end of the world June 24, 2021 *** WARNING: This article contains spoilers for all current episodes of Loki and some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe *** Last week’s episode of Loki featured a lot of Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) sharing detective theories and life philosophies. It ended with a supermarket chase and the reveal of The Variant/Lady Loki [...]
Recovery: Young Londoners lead the charge back to centre of the capital June 24, 2021 Increasing numbers of Londoners are ready to return to the centre of the capital as optimism about the city’s future grows. Some 70 per cent of 16-34 year olds now feel comfortable visiting the centre of town, as do 62 per cent of Londoners as a whole. That’s a 10 point increase on the figure [...]
US health agency says ‘likely association’ between heart inflammation and Covid vaccine June 23, 2021 The US national health agency said there was a “likely association” between a rare inflammatory heart condition and the Covid vaccine in teenagers and young adults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there was “a “likely association of myocarditis with mRNA vaccination” in young people, mostly after they’ve received their second vaccine. [...]
Older workers planning to work from home permanently are selfishly risking the development of young people June 23, 2021 My Twitter timeline has been overrun with people arguing about whether they are for or against a return to the office. The ones shouting the loudest is normally to be the anti-office group. They are typically older, more well-established in their careers and keen to share how pleased they are to have finally ditched the [...]
London vaccine race: Mass events send new boroughs to the front June 23, 2021 Haringey has shot to the front of the vaccine race after a mass vaccination event took place at Tottenham Hotspur stadium at the weekend. Almost 4,200 Pfizer vaccinations were received at the stadium on Sunday, according to the latest NHS vaccine data. Haringey, the borough that hosted the stadium event, administered 2,445 first doses of [...]
No showing off: The paradox at the heart of British men’s style June 23, 2021 The English have a strange relationship to men’s style. Every gentleman has conflicting voices, a Jeeves and a Wooster on either shoulder: Bertie with his brass-buttoned mess jacket and Old Etonian spats, his valet with an eyebrow raised in polite disapproval. Nowhere better is this duality exemplified than in the British Army. Regiments do everything [...]
Weigh-ins for kids will be a gift for school bullies and will fail to tackle obesity June 23, 2021 The return of school weigh-ins will from September reminds us of a problem we as a nation know we have: British children are amongst the most obese in Western Europe. Months of lockdowns and homeschooling have only made things worse. Forcing children to be fat shamed in front of their peers is the last thing [...]