Food banks: an MP claimed there’s no massive use for them in the UK – the evidence shows why he’s wrong: Dragana Gordic / Shutterstock There is no “massive use for food banks” in the UK, according to Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield. However, figures and evidence from food bank organisations, charities and …
What is a non-dom? An expert answers our questions about the tax status claimed by Rishi Sunak’s wife and other wealthy people: It has emerged that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, claims non-domicile (or “non-dom”) tax status, meaning that she does not have to pay UK taxes on income earned elsewhere. This revelation has …
Do very active people really have a higher risk of heart attack – as recent headlines claimed?: El Nariz/Shutterstock Everybody knows that exercising is good for your heart, so recent news that over-exercising can block up your arteries, may have come as a shock to many. The study, which was widely reported in the media, …
South Africa in the news: Mother who claimed to give birth to ten babies accuses the father of trying to become ‘millionaire’: Gosiame Sithole claimed her boyfriend Tebego Tsotetsi was ‘expecting to be rich’ from the alleged record births and was only concerned about the donations coming from people across the world.: “South Africa” – …
President Mnangagwa claimed Zimbabwe was open for business. What’s gone wrong: Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa meets his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping in Beijing, in 2018. EPA-EFE/Lintao Zhang / POOL In November 2017 Zimbabwe’s military replaced Robert Mugabe as head of state with his long-time confidante Emmerson Mnangagwa. He declared Zimbabwe “open for business”, linking …
Mao’s China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it’s still celebrating that ‘success’ in propaganda today: China's campaign from the 1950s to eradicate schistosomiasis, or 'snail fever', has been lauded ever since. US National Library of Medicine In early April, with much of the world under lockdown, China was already celebrating its purported …
Man charged in turtle’s death claimed…: The man charged with beating a turtle to death with a hammer in June told police he acted in self-defense, according to his arrest affidavit. Terry Washington, 55, was recorded by a witness the afternoon of June 21 hitting the turtle with a hammer by the Bouldin Creek spillway. …