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Holiday lets saw surge in bookings as PM mapped out roadmap out of lockdown Firms recorded increase in website traffic before PM had even finished address Staycation giant Awaze sold a record 10,000 breaks - one booking every second Habitat Escapes said sales were up 9,559 per cent up on the same day last year And Cool Camping saw an instant doubling in website traffic between 3-4pm 

Comments Off on Two FOI requests seeking information about COVID Here at mySociety, before pressing ‘post’, we sometimes pass the wording of a tweet or blog entry past a couple of colleagues, just to make sure it strikes the right tone.  “The quote would need to be shrunk down to fit, what should the main focus be?” “Have added some bits, not sure what the highlighted section was meant to be?” “[Redacted] wants us to delete the tweet for relationship management purp...

CS Interview: Frank Stallone Talks Documentary Stallone: Frank, That Is CS Interview: Frank Stallone talks documentary Stallone: Frank, That Is ComingSoon.net had the opportunity to speak with Golden Globe nominee Frank Stallone about the new documentary Stallone: Frank, That Is, which gives an inside look into the fascinating life, career, and survivor of the most unknown famous entertainer in Hollywood. You can check out the interview with Stallone below and pick up your copy of the movie by...

Crippling interest rates loom: Why we need to write off business loans for SMEs Published 2 months ago Campaign. UK businesses are hanging by the skin of their teeth. Just last week the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) reported that at least 250,000 small businesses will collapse in 2021 unless more support is offered to them under the current restrictions. This would bring the total number of SMEs that have folded since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic to an estimated 470,000. Accounti...

Daniel Hall of Working Den: “Build and release your product as fast as you can” Build and release your product as fast as you can. Don’t worry about refining it. Basically it took four months to perfect the site and when it launched, we pivoted within a week and all the time perfecting things was for nothing. In the future I’ll try to find “market fit” and something that works, […] The Thrive Global Community welcomes voices from many spheres on our open platform. We publish piece...

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:39 UTC © Reuters/Caitlin Ochs Labour MP Luke Pollard opened a floodgate of internet hate after writing a letter to his constituents in which he claimed Santa Claus had received a Covid-19 jab and that children were saving lives by not seeing their relatives. Pollard, who represents Plymouth, started the message by reassuring young people that Father Christmas will still be able to deliver presents this year, despite strict restrictions on movement and gatherings during the ...

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:53 UTC A general view of a family delivering Christmas presents on December 19 before going into a lockdown at midnight in Cardiff, WalesSome of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire. Christmas Day wasnt much better and when I eventually made it home I...

Half of U.S. States to Prioritize Blacks And Hispanics Over Whites for COVID-19 Vaccine Published: December 20, 2020 Is this what they call "systemic racism"? Every US state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to Centers for Disease Control guidance. As a result, half of the nations states have outlined plans that now prioritize black, Hispanic and indigenous residents over white people in some way, as...

PETER HITCHENS: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas! By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday 22:01 19 Dec 2020, updated 01:53 20 Dec 2020 294 shares Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire. Christmas Day wasnt muc...

« 17 years ago Saddam Hussein had just been captured and I was on my way across the desert to to Baghdad, to write this... | Main | For a course in how to think, read my books » PETER HITCHENS: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas! This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column   Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas! Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under...