Daniela Elser: Prince Harry s greatest failing leaves bleak future for royals
26 Feb, 2021 10:09 PM
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Prince Harry on The Crown. Video / Video / The Late Late Show with James Corden
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Let it never be said that the British are not a contradictory people.
Polling done in the wake of the most recent topsy-turvy week of Windsor shenanigans has found that nearly half of all those surveyed think that Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have let the royal family down, added to which 43 per cent say they now think less of the California-based duo than this time last year.
Covid 19 coronavirus: The pandemic is receding in the worst hotspots. Will it last?
23 Feb, 2021 08:47 PM
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A server wipes down a table at a restaurant in Nashville. Photo / William DeShazer, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Allison McCann, Lauren Leatherby and Josh Holder A month ago, the pandemic looked bleak. More than 750,000 coronavirus cases were tallied worldwide in a single day. Infections surged across the entire United States. New variants identified in the United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa threatened the rest of the world.
But the last month has brought a surprisingly fast, if partial, turnaround. New cases have declined to half their peak globally, driven largely by steady improvements in some of the same places that weathered devastating outbreaks this winter.
Karl Puschmann: Bleak new comedy Back is painfully funny
11 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The cast of new comedy Back: Geoff McGivern, Penny Downie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Louise Brealey.
The cast of new comedy Back: Geoff McGivern, Penny Downie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Louise Brealey.
Karl Puschmann is a senior entertainment writer and columnist for the New Zealand Herald.karl.puschmann@nzherald.co.nz@CritiKarl
The boys of Peep Show are back. Or, more accurately, the boys of Peep Show are back in a brutally funny new series called Back. Usually when a new show gets the old gang back
Covid 19 coronavirus: Response was a global series of failures, WHO-established panel says
19 Jan, 2021 01:47 AM
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Medical staff in protective outfit wait for patients in Wuhan, January 2020. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Selam Gebrekidan and Matt Apuzzo
An interim report is both a bleak recounting of deadly missteps and an early blueprint for repairs: We have failed in our collective capacity. Laying bare a yearlong cascade of failures, a World Health Organisation panel recounts in a damning report how governments and public health organisations worldwide responded slowly and ineffectively to the coronavirus, despite years of warnings.
The interim report, an early blueprint for reform, describes the faulty assumptions, ineffective planning and sluggish responses including missteps by the WHO itself that helped fuel a pandemic that has killed more than 2 million people.