Saturday, May 2 I’ve been experiencing a weird breathlessness sensation for a couple of days that I put down to hay fever. But today, it got significantly worse, to the extent where I was having trouble breathing properly, was left panting after walking up or down the stairs, and then I started sporadically coughing too. … Read more
During summer on Sweden’s west coast, there is a sense of anticipation as its rather unique party season approaches. Everyone gets a little giddy about… crayfish. So don’t be surprised when throughout August you see groups sitting at long tables wearing bibs and funny-looking hats, singing silly songs and knocking back schnapps. West Sweden is … Read more
The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money And Other People Can’t William Leith Bloomsbury £20 Rating: Books telling you how to get rich quick are every bit as popular as misery memoirs. Perhaps the impulse to read them springs from the same root. It is easy to imagine a couple on deck chairs, the … Read more
Hospital Special: Fighting Covid-19 Rating: On the afternoon of March 28, a Saturday, my father was taken by ambulance to the Royal Free Hospital in North London suffering from severe breathlessness and chest pains. No one was allowed to go with him. He was discharged at 3am on the Sunday morning, and then died later … Read more
HEALTH NOTES: App gives voice to Covid patients on ventilators By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 16 May 2020 Covid-19 patients struggling to communicate in intensive care have been given a voice thanks to a groundbreaking new app. The program, which can be downloaded free on … Read more
China’s claims that the pandemic emerged from a wild animal market in Wuhan last December have been challenged by a landmark scientific study. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that analysis of the coronavirus by specialist biologists suggests that all available data shows it was taken into the market by someone already carrying the disease. … Read more
British people’s ‘fortitude’ will enable then to survive the Covid-19 crisis and regain ‘the freedoms they hold dear’, Boris Johnson declares today. The Prime Minister says that the epidemic has brought out ‘the best in humanity’ and that the public’s ‘perseverance’ and ‘good common sense’ will enable the country to ‘inch forwards’ out of lockdown … Read more
Trojan Global Income’s boss sensed turmoil ahead before coronavirus pandemic hit By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 16 May 2020 Investment house Troy Asset Management, established 20 years ago by Lord Weinstock, is a ‘conservative’ investor in financial assets. It is as much concerned … Read more
When it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, every day is a school day – and that isn’t just because many parents (myself included) are having to teach our children about fronted adverbials at the same time as working from home. As we scan the news for information, we are all learning a great deal about … Read more
The world is looking very different from how it did a few months ago, before coronavirus struck and sent economies into meltdown. As a result, the country’s army of small businesses is having to take a leaf out of Darwin’s book – and adapt to survive. The Mail on Sunday has spoken to the entrepreneurial … Read more
We’re still here helping you look after your money.’ So goes the latest advert for NatWest, set against a backdrop of a deserted high street and featuring some of its younger employees cheerily imploring customers to use its mobile phone app. All in all, a rather reassuring message for its millions of business and personal … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banking in a kangaroo court has to stop: Robots are taking over the proverbial asylum By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 There’s nothing wrong with online banking. Like most people, I embrace it and am often found in … Read more
In America, some frontline workers battling the coronavirus crisis aren’t being given any time off. They’re nose to the grindstone, around the clock without so much as a toilet break or a cup of coffee to keep them going. Even in these strange times, it sounds like the sort of slave labour that would trigger … Read more