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Labour isn’t the party it pretends to be on political authenticity “No politician can be anything other than themselves for long. They just look phoney, pointless, dull or too obviously calculating,” writes Daniel Finkelstein for The Times. This, he says, is a lesson Keir Starmer “would do well to reflect upon”. Starmer “is a successful liberal lawyer”, “a southerner, a graduate and a London MP who lives in his constituency”, says Finkelstein, and these are “all good qualities”. But he has become “a leader who’s afraid of being himself and wishing to be seen as some...

Absolutely Maybe It’s been another drama-filled, and data-packed, hectic few weeks in the Covid vaccines landscape. But the visual theme of this roundup post is the gigantic global airlift that’s underway at last, and the relief and hope that comes with it. There are the usual updates on the vaccines that have released efficacy results – and all the phase 3 trials that are underway, with over 460,000 participants so far. I’ve highlighted major community studies, too, the developments in combinations of vaccines, and trials in children and in pregnancy. And if after all that, you’d...

History of Valentine's Day Like Halloween, the origins of Valentine's Day are rooted in paganism, specifically in a fertility festival known as Lupercalia, says National Geographic. The festival – which was “wildly popular” until the fifth century AD – was celebrated annually on 15 February. It was customary for men to use whips fashioned from the skins of a goat or dog to spank young maidens in order to increase fertility - “an early form of IVF if you will,” says Tom Chivers in the Daily Telegraph. Lupercalia was so popular that the young Christian Church was unable to stop pag...

Sea shanties are taking over TikTok as users are rushing in their droves to upload their own renditions of the traditional folk songs to the video sharing site. The craze began when Scottish postman Nathan Evans' rendition of Leave her Johnny, which was often the last song sung at the end of a voyage by sailors, gathered 1.1 million views last year. The aspiring musician later uploaded a cover of the 19th Century sea shanty Wellerman, which tells the story of the Australian shore whaling company Weller Brothers, and has since seen his video amass 4.3million views and spark the viral trend #Sh...

Biden says he’ll tell the U.S. to stop holding back doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. The debate about holding back doses, explained. Vox.com 1/8/2021 Kelsey Piper © Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images In Berlin, people line up to get vaccinated against Covid-19. In the past couple of weeks, experts and pundits have debated a big question surrounding the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna: Do we stick to two doses for every person, spaced a couple of weeks apart, as was originally planned? Or should we go ahead and give out single doses to mo...