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Poland’s health ministry has launched an investigation after it was revealed that several celebrities jumped the queue to receive vaccines. Poland started its programme on 27 December, with healthcare professionals meant to be given the vaccine first....
just grate the ginger, skin and all. Easiest method to be found, and in this case scraping the ginger skin off is a waste of time, you'll never know it's there - just clean it well before. Only time not to grate it is if you want whole bits of ginger,...
There are a lot of interesting scientific research into this field that suggests that languages are stored differently in the brains of early and late bilinguals There are concepts and ideas that I can express in my second or third languages but not in...
Today on the British isles is like the crisis which began in 1638 with Charles I's attempt to impose the Anglican Prayer Book on the Calvinist Scots: what seemed at the time to be a harmless little vanity project - like Cameron's referendum - but which...
The problem is that the business community, filled with sharks, conmen, and criminals, have usurped control of our society for their own benefit. Sure there are honest businesspeople, but stop and consider: how many laws exist because businesspeople cut...
Television has been censored and controlled far more rigorously than the printed word for decades. There's no reason that this can't be done for social media. Of course it will be more complex and difficult, but it's not impossible. Instead of politicians...
We often find ourselves in a state of what we can refer to as Free-Flowing Consciousness. Which basically means that we stop controlling the mind and its stream of thought patterns and more or less take part in the journey it takes. Having such experiences...
The problem with reusing plastic bottles is the microplastic that ends up in the water which we ultimately end up ingesting. Refilling plastic water containers is not solving any problems and could be making it worse. The more breakdown in the plastic,...
Is this recycling sustainable thought through? Or is it just encouraging a different kind of consumer Sweden infinitely better than the UK of course, but that shouldn't really be a barometer. What is it working towards and what are the next steps? To...
We have many new technologies to identify the genetic sequence(s) of novel viruses, we have many new methods of developing vaccines and we could have minimised the pandemic and it's adverse effects. What got in the way? People and their ideas did and...
Volunteering benefits mental health and acts as antidote to loneliness Volunteering can be truly transformative for people’s lives. It reduces isolation, improves confidence, provides new experiences, improves employment prospects and fundamentally it’s...
the 2.5mm headphone jack, which is slightly smaller than the standard 3.5mm headphone jack people are used to. Bose and several other headphone manufacturers use this jack to plug into their phones via cable, but it’s a standard cable like any other and...
In the eyes of the world’s media, England is – a “Plague Island” led by a man who thinks “optimism is a substitute for hard truths and proper management” – is currently getting a good lesson in “what ‘reclaiming sovereignty’ means”. If never quite explicit,...
Monitoring people while they do their jobs is creepy, and can even be counterproductive – but it has a long history We are inured to the idea that professional environments have a built-in layer of surveillance, and now that this environment has merged...
A PATCH of land in a Helensburgh and Lomond village described as a “gateway to the Highlands” has been placed on the market. The 4.3-acre site in Arrochar, which includes part of the car park at the head of Loch Long, has gone up for sale at offers over...
King Cnut King Cnut (Son of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark 1018-35, King of England 1016-35, King of Norway 1028-35 and King of part of Sweden.) A man known more in England for commanding the sea to turn back was in fact a powerful unifying force and...
The Iona Community is an ecumenical Christian organisation which was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, then a Church of Scotland parish minister in Govan, Glasgow. George brought together young ministers in training and unemployed craftsmen to rebuild...
There is a worldwide trend that has been at play for a long time. In May 2019 an OECD report entitled “Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class” looked closely at this issue. The report shows that “for every generation since the baby boom of the 1940s,...
Some women like to wear make up for themselves and if more women are taking control of that and meeting the diverse needs of other women surely that’s a good thing, and if a woman and a man pursue a goal together surely that’s a good thing too? Searching...
Instagram is a hotbed for disinformation dissemination Facebook and Instagram could do more Purveyors of false content, whether foreign or domestic, tend to operate across multiple platforms Twitter received the most attention in connection with the election...
There are places in the world are what they call “low-trust societies”. The political institutions are fragile and corrupt, business practices are dodgy, debts are rarely repaid and people rightly fear being ripped off on any transaction. In the “high-trust...
Frugality has always been with the poor people it is only just being talked about because rich people are in Lockdown and being unable to spend all their money on nonsense. Some poor people have been frugal all their lives, even in the face of saving...
Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals....
A last example of civil disobedience is found in the book of Revelation where the Antichrist commands all those who are alive during the end times to worship an image of himself. But the apostle John, who wrote Revelation, states that those who become...
In the New Testament, the book of Acts records the civil disobedience of Peter and John towards the authorities that were in power at the time. After Peter healed a man born lame, Peter and John were arrested for preaching about Jesus and put in jail....
