Author: RT

A tale of two headlines: Daily Mail front pages show drastic escalation in UK coronavirus stance Life comes at you fast, especially in the midst of a global pandemic, and nowhere was this more evident than the front pages of the Daily Mail newspaper, which displayed a neck-breaking 180 in mood in less than 24 hours. Thursday's front page was devoted to extolling the virtues of "New Tory star" Chancellor Rishi Sunak aka "Dr Feelgood" and his £30 billion cash economic stimulus package, dubbed a 'vaccination,' which would stave off the worst economic effects of the coronavirus.  "Cash for sick workers" and "Shops' taxes slashed" were the breathless (pardon the pun) yet genius solutions to the coronavirus threat to the economy thanks to the "biggest bud...

Greece swears in first female president in scaled-down ceremony Greece’s first woman president began her term Friday with a pledge to protect the country’s borders and to defend human rights. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a 63-year-old former senior judge, said she would “walk together” with Greeks to create a “prosperous” future “that includes all of us.” The new head of the Greek state begins her five-year term in a terse standoff with neighboring Turkey, which has allowed tens of thousands of refugees to amass at the border. Sakellaropoulou said Greeks had to “repulse the aggression of those who make designs on our national sovereignty by [exploiting] human pain,” AFP reports. The ceremony in parliament was scaled back as a result of the global pandemic, with around 150 guests ...