Watchdog Ofqual knew its algorithm was ‘doomed’ as far back as June but pressed ahead anyway, it has been claimed. An adviser who helped it develop the software said there was ‘always an understanding there would be winners and losers’. Ofqual has always said its system was as ‘fair as possible’ – despite so many … Read more
Where is Boris? We are told he’s camping in Scotland with fiancée Carrie Symonds and baby son Wilfred. It’s hard to imagine him banging in tent pegs, or hunched over a flickering Primus stove. Maybe he’s not really camping and being bitten to death by midges but sheltering in a friend’s house on some pleasant … Read more
Why The Project is untouchable: How a special contract protects Channel 10’s left-leaning current affairs show from job cuts – amid rumours Kerri-Anne Kennerley ‘isn’t happy’ about the deal By Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:00 BST, 20 August 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 20 August 2020 Channel 10 made a point of … Read more
Online grocery shopping increases by more than a third for over-55s after they embrace the internet amid the COVID-19 crisis – as Waitrose boss insists the change is ‘irreversible’ More than half of British adults aged 55 and over now shop online for groceries Data showed 74 per cent of older generation bought food goods … Read more
Doctors are told to be frank with patients who have obesity in bid to get them to change their lifestyle and save taxpayers millions Doctors have been accused of failing to be frank with their obese patients They need to persuade their patients to lose weight instead of other options Some doctors just prescribe expensive ‘bariatric’ … Read more
Deaths from skin cancer have more than doubled in the past fifty years as more and more British sunseekers jet abroad on cheap holidays. Official figures analysed by Cancer Research UK reveal that people are dying from melanoma skin cancer at 2.5 times the rate they were in the 1970s. Almost nine in ten cases … Read more
Mothers who give birth to premature babies are at nearly TWICE the risk of dying early compared to other women, study finds An Icahn School of Medicine study reviewed records on more than two million women Swedish who gave birth between 1973 and 2015 Women who delivered before they were 37 weeks pregnant were 1.7 … Read more
Village People singer Victor Willis slams President Trump’s playing of Y.M.C.A. at his rallies By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 23:50 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 23:50 BST, 19 August 2020 Village People vocalist Victor Willis says President Donald Trump and his campaign have repeatedly ignored his pleas to stop playing the song … Read more
When Khafi Kareem received the call on a June morning urgently summoning her to the family home, her first instinct was that there had been an accident. ‘My brother said it was about Alex, but he couldn’t tell me over the phone,’ she recalls. ‘The worst thing I could think of was that my little … Read more
The United States will demand Thursday that all United Nations sanctions be reimposed against Iran, President Donald Trump announced, a move that follows America’s embarrassing failure to extend an arms embargo against Tehran. The administration´s insistence on snapping back international sanctions against Iran sets the stage for a contentious dispute. It’s possible that the U.S. … Read more