Princess Eugenie Won’t Accept A Royal Title For Her Baby If Offered By The Queen

A family friend has told Vanity Fair that Princess Eugenie won’t accept a royal title for her baby if offered by the Queen because it’s a curse and she wants her child to have a normal life.

The Queen’s granddaughter, 30, and her husband of two years Jack Brooksbank, 34, announced on Friday they’re expecting the baby in early 2021.

A family friend of the couple has now revealed how titles don’t matter to the couple, who will raise the child at their residence of Kensington Palace, and said they just want a happy healthy child.

And it was said that Eugenie knows that a title can be a curse as well as a blessing and she and Jack want their child to live an ordinary life and eventually work to make a living.

Sources have also revealed that the couple will pick an ordinary name for their firstborn.

According to the rules of the House of Windsor, Eugenie’s baby will not automatically be entitled to the HRH styling, which only extends to grandchildren of the monarch, but a source said that even if the Queen did offer a title as a gift, it was not Eugenie or Jack’s want for their child to have a title.

Despite having royal titles, Princess Eugenie and her sister Princess Beatrice are not presently considered to be senior working royals, because they don’t carry out duties full time on behalf of the Queen.

The sisters, who are ninth and tenth in line to the throne, both have full-time jobs and don’t receive cheques from the Sovereign Grant, the government-supported fund that finances Queen Elizabeth II’s official responsibilities.

Princess Eugenie works as a director for Mayfair based gallery Hauser & Wirth and receives no money from the Queen.

Eugenie graduated from Newcastle University in September 2009, after studying English Literature and the History of Art.

After finishing her studies, Eugenie moved to New York to work for online auction firm Paddle8, before moving back to London in 2015.

She and her sister presently attend a handful of royal affairs a year, including sometimes joining the Queen at one of her annual garden parties in the summer, and making an appearance with other royals at Trooping the Colour.

Meanwhile, Jack, who’s European brand manager for Casamigos Tequila co-founded by George Clooney doesn’t have a title or an HRH.

And it now seems that royal titles are becoming too much of a burden and the time will finally come when all modern royals will forsake all HRH titles.

I’m actually beginning to like Eugenie and her sister because it seems like they have a lot more insight than their parents, but of course, the new baby won’t need a title, it will have everything offered on a plate, and as soon as the sex is known, the baby’s name will be put down for the finest schools.

Of course, the Queen has done a fantastic job as our non-executive head of state, but the monarchy is giddy and obsolete and it’s time for them to find something else to do with their lives.

And Princess Eugenie is from a rich family, who’s married into wealth – there will be nothing ordinary about the child’s upbringing. Although I think that Princess Eugenie is quite a decent genuine person that was born privileged, which isn’t her fault, the same as it’s not her fault that she has odious, self-seeking parents. They both seem like a really nice couple, so good luck to them both.

Russia Strikes Deals to Market Its Coronavirus Vaccine Internationally

Russia has struck preliminary agreements to market its COVID 19 vaccine to more than 10 countries in Asia, South America and the Middle East, a development that could give Moscow valuable economic and political leverage internationally.

Russian officials say they have secured preliminary deals for the vaccine to be delivered to countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and India and in addition, Russia says it’s in various stages of discussions with approximately 10 other countries to purchase the vaccine.

All told, it has received offers or indications of interest in the vaccine for a total of 1.2 billion doses.

The vaccines will be manufactured abroad and dispersed worldwide from there as soon as November, but officials say the shot will need local regulatory clearance before being circulated.

The shot, called Sputnik V, after the satellite the Soviet Union launched ahead of the US in the Cold War space race, was endorsed by Russian authorities early last month, despite scepticism from the West about the speed with which it was registered.

Russian researchers completed only small scale tests on 76 volunteers before securing approval. Data from these early trials revealed that the shot was safe to use and generated an immune response but experts say large scale trials are required before establishing the vaccine’s effectiveness.

Russia began trials on 40,000 volunteers in late August.

Russia hopes to launch mass vaccinations of its own people by the end of the year. Meanwhile, China has injected hundreds of thousands with its own experimental vaccine.

Experts have expressed concerns over a rush to use vaccines that haven’t quite completed testing, as the widespread use of an ineffective shot could lead to a renewed spread of the coronavirus.

American officials have indicated the US is unlikely to use a Russian or Chinese vaccine because of doubts over testing methods.

Moscow’s drive to give access to its vaccine abroad highlights President Vladimir Putin’s goal of establishing Russia as a primary player in the international race to secure COVID 19 vaccines.

Analysts say Moscow could ultimately use the shot as a soft power tool to draw countries into its orbit.

Vladimir Frolov, a former senior Russian diplomat and Moscow based political analyst said that the idea was that the vaccine could win Russia some hearts and minds in the non-West and increase its geopolitical leverage.

Separately, Russia strives to manufacture 30 million Sputnik V doses by the end of this year for its own population.

The country has been hit badly by the virus with more than one million cases, representing the fourth largest caseload in the world and Russia has struck preliminary agreements to market the vaccine to more than 10 countries, according to Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, which has spearheaded the vaccine effort.

If this saves millions of humans in impoverished countries and their children don’t perish from starvation then we should all be for it, but we’re not all going to want to save the rest of the world from COVID 19 when we can just save ourselves.

And we malign Russia, laugh at them, scorn them, but they just shrug their shoulders and go about their business with persistent determination and if this works, which hopefully it will, it will not be the first time they will have saved humankind.

I’m sure my views will be savaged by the ignorant, the self-important and uninformed but I must say that I have a grudging admiration for them.

They have been around as one nation for a very long time, so there must be a method to their madness, even if they are insane methods.

There’s Enough Food To Go Round!

The executive director of Waitrose has attacked panic buyers saying that their actions inevitably mean someone else will go without.

Panic buying across the United Kingdom has restarted amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus and another lockdown with customers reporting queuing for 20 minutes to enter shops before similar further delays at checkouts.

And online customers found it near impossible to get delivery slots from Asda, Morrison, Ocado, Sainsbury’s and Tesco and some didn’t have any free slots for up to two weeks.

Restrictions on things which disappeared most quickly during the country’s first lockdown, such as flour and eggs, have been put in place. However, shops have insisted that empty shelves once supplied with toilet paper and pasta will be quickly replenished.

One disgruntled customer wrote on Twitter: ‘Brilliant job @Morrisons Thamesmead. No queues outside the store.

But David Dowles added that aisles were crammed inside – there was no social distancing, with queues 40 deep at the tills. The place was mobbed and still, people were being allowed to come in.

The executive director of Waitrose, James Bailey, told a news outlet that there was enough food to go round, but he added that if one person supplies their house with all the packs of pasta they can get their hands on, it inevitably means somebody else will go without and they could be the most vulnerable or key workers.

It came after Tesco became the latest supermarket to impose rationing on food and household goods, but in a bid to sidestep bulk buying which left shop shelves across the United Kingdom nearly bare in March, the supermarket colossus will limit items such as flour, dried pasta, toilet roll and antibacterial wipes to three per customer.

It comes after Morrisons on Thursday announced rationing would be introduced on specific items in its stores up and down the country and the restrictions came as supermarket chiefs looked to sidestep an over repeat of stockpiling hysteria seen in stores at the beginning of the pandemic in March.

Images from supermarkets across the United Kingdom have already shown empty or rapidly emptying toilet roll racks, just days before the Government announced tighter constraints in a bid to stave off a second coronavirus wave.

More than a quarter of the UK population are living under additional coronavirus constraints with new measures on socialising coming into force in regions of the country, with a prohibition on households socialising in each other’s homes, which came into effect at midnight on Saturday in Wigan, Stockport, Blackpool and Leeds – Cardiff and Swansea locked down from 6 pm on Friday, taking the number of people under more stringent rules to 17 million.

So, here we go again. We should have had the opportunity to reflect, act as a community and care for each other, but still, the selfish stupidity comes to the forefront and no lessons have been learnt, and it does make you wonder if humankind does actually deserve to survive.

Of course, supermarkets will be making millions, but really there’s no need to panic buy and we should all quit being ridiculous – what is everyone panicking for, the world’s not coming to an end.

Some people are greedy entitled imbeciles and this country is a disgrace and it seems that people just can’t share and don’t care about other people’s lives and it’s a very hostile place to live in.

However, some people do get carried away, but it’s no wonder when there’s so much doom and gloom reporting by media outlets and they need to take some responsibility for that.

Elderly Prefer Death To Spending Christmas Without Family

An expert has claimed that elderly people would surrender their safety to spend Christmas with their families as it’s more important to many than staying alive.

If coronavirus constraints mean they’re unable to do so, numerous elderly people will be crippled by loneliness.

The stark warning comes from 85-year-old Baroness Greengross, who is one of the UK’s leading experts on ageing and the former director-general of the charity Age Concern advised ministers to buffer constraints in the run-up to the festive season.

And she said: ‘What do we do about elderly people who long to see their family at Christmas and it looks as if they’ll not be able to? That’s absolutely awful’.

She continued: ‘I think I would make an announcement just before Christmas that relaxed some of the rules because most older people with families would prioritise seeing them, I think, overstaying alive.’

Baroness Greengross said that she fears constraints to prevent the spread of the coronavirus have come at the expense of many people’s quality of life.

Everyone deemed vulnerable to coronavirus symptoms was urged to shield themselves earlier this year when the virus took hold of the country. This included anyone aged over 70, who were vulnerable to the disease because of their advanced age.

For the past six months, many have been cut off from their families and unable to see their loved ones as much as they would have wanted, but Baroness Greengross said to not see them for Christmas would be an added disappointment.

With more stringent coronavirus constraints being introduced as the country wrestles with a wave of cases of the virus, she hopes Government ministers will recognise this while setting out their plans for December.

Baroness Greengross has been a relentless defender of the rights of the elderly since entering the House of Lords cross benches in 2000 and according to the Campaign To End Loneliness, there are nine million lonely people in the United Kingdom and four million of them are more senior people.

More than a million older people also say they go for over a month without speaking to a friend, neighbour or family member and Ester Rantzen, who founded The Silver Line, a free confidential helpline that provides the elderly with information, friendship and advice, previously said that once our elderly are self-isolating, we need to protect them not only from the virus but from the emotional impairment caused by loneliness.

Many grandparents are fed up with the restrictions and enjoy hugging their grandchildren, socialising with family and close friends – sometimes in groups larger than six – going to the shops and some having holidays.

Life is for living, however long we’ve got – it’s a virus, not Ebola. I know that I’ll be having Christmas and no one is going to care who’s in my home over the Christmas period.

Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Doctor Mike Yeadon said that the second wave was fabricated on false-positive COVID tests and that it was being founded on Government policy, economic policy, civil liberties policy, in terms of limiting people to six in a group, all based on, what might be, totally bogus data on the coronavirus.

Eat, drink and be merry. As they say, every day is Christmas despite being vulnerable and shielded and whilst I disagree with how the Government have managed most things, I have upheld what has been asked of me.

Christmas however, is one time of the year where I would resent not being able to spend time with my friends and family, and some families that have very old grandparents and great grandparents, well, how many more Christmas’s will they be able to spend with them?

And it’s frustrating that people are permitted to work 10-12 hours a day in a tin can, but can mingle with 25,000 customers every week, let alone in the run-up to Christmas, but our families aren’t allowed to spend just one day with their families and friends.

SAGE Scientists Suggested A Plan For Everyone Over The Age Of 45 To Shield At Home

Scientists advising the Government on coronavirus considered a plan to ask everyone ever the age of 45 years old to shield and it was recommended that those over 45 years old were at greater risk from the virus and more likely to die from it, so could be segmented from the rest of the population.

The proposal, announced in papers from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), was ultimately advised against, as it was considered unlikely to be successful.

However, it’s being kept under consideration, and news of it follows a similar option drawn up by officials to potentially target over the 50s with another lockdown.

The minutes of the 48th meeting of the SAGE scientists held on July 23, said that although the under 45s were at less risk from COVID 19, including lower risk of death, they’re still at some risk and that the long term effects were not well understood.

The document adds that around two-thirds of people in the United Kingdom live in a household which includes one or more individuals aged 45 and above and any segmentation founded on this age threshold would therefore affect most households.

The segmentation looked at would have involved those over 45 shielding, which earlier in the pandemic meant staying at home and sidestepping unnecessary contact with others.

Minutes from July 16 note there is likely to be merit in segmenting society by age, especially to vulnerable people and those likely to have more contact with vulnerable people.

It continues that data indicates that people tend to have more connections with others around their own age, but also have a substantial number of connections with those 20-30 years older and younger than themselves, likely to mostly be contacts between parents and children and that there’s also a significant level of contact between grandparents and children.

Figures reveal that children and those aged below 45 years old are at far lower risk of dying from coronavirus than those aged over 75 years old and the Office for National Statistics data shows only four COVID 19 deaths were documented in children aged one to 14 years old in England and Wales or less than 0.01 per cent of the total and that 574 have been recorded in those aged 15 to 44, or 0.96 per cent of the total.

In comparison, 39,058 people aged 75 years old and over have died from the virus or 65 per cent of the total.

So, does that mean that if all over 45s are locked down, does this mean that schools will close and the police as well?

Clearly, this isn’t going to happen because 45 years old is far too young and they should put it at 50-55 years old because typically most children have flown the nest by this time and 50 years old is where illness really has the most significant impact.

And there are a lot of workplaces where about 80 per cent of workers are aged 45 years old. So, if they’re thinking of shielding all 45-year-olds, this will mean that school kitchens will have to shut down, as well as a lot of other places, but go ahead Boris, further tank the economy into oblivion.

But then over 45s are increasingly being made redundant in the workplace, so why don’t we just lock them up, the next step will follow by putting them into old people’s homes.

And my sleep feels like a nasty dream and then I wake up and realise that it’s actually happening and that it wasn’t just a bad nightmare.

So, 44 is safe, but you reach 45 and you’re not safe anymore and unexpectedly this virus has become extraordinarily innovative. No, it’s not the virus that’s become extremely innovative, it’s our Government and things have become extremely convenient for them.

Is The COVID Curfew Doing More Harm Than Good?

Hoards of revellers headed to the streets in their droves last night after bars and pubs booted them out at 10 pm, assembling in huge gatherings and violating social distancing rules.

Vast swathes of Saturday night drinkers were seen downing pints on empty roads in Soho, London, while others rushed to buy alcohol from off licences in Leeds after the newly imposed rules meant venues closed early.

Boozed fuelled masses also assembled at the popular Harbourside area in Bristol and on the streets of nightlife hotspot Newcastle.

The inflow of merry revellers elevated the risk of spreading the virus even more as they crowded together on public transport after Uber fares swelled by 2.6 per cent due to increased demand in London.

The Prime Minister’s decision to impose the 10 pm curfew has been hit by criticism after it was announced the move was not supported by SAGE, the panel of scientific experts chaired by Sir Patrick Vallance.

According to a news outlet, SAGE members are said to be increasingly frustrated that they’re being vetoed while simultaneously being scapegoated for the more drastic measures.

A former World Health Organisation director, Professor Karol Sikora, also highlighted concerns, asking, where is the evidence? And that closing a little earlier will just hurt so many business owners.

SAGE scientists are reportedly calling on the Government to release their advice to exonerate them from any part in mooting a pub curfew.

It comes as homes in the Welsh town of Llanelli were barred from entering each other’s homes and gardens from 6 pm, with the nation’s two largest cities of Cardiff and Swansea following suit.

Residents are also prohibited from entering or leaving the areas without a good reason.

It comes after lockdowns were already imposed in large swathes of the North East and North West of England and more than a quarter of the United Kingdom is under tighter restrictions, including half of the Welsh population.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there had been an acceleration of COVID 19 cases across the country, particularly in the North West and the North East and that working alongside their scientific and public health experts and local leaders, they were prepared to take quick and assertive measures to facilitate the transmission of the virus and protect communities.

He also said that he recognised the burden and impact these additional measures have on our daily lives but that we must act collectively and quickly to bring down infections.

There’s a 98.5 per cent survival rate in the United Kingdom and yet the Government are locking people up, well the Government should get over themselves because this has gone too far and now they’re just trying to control us.

And not only that, they’re doing it while taking the proverbial piddle. First, they lock us down, then they say we can go to eat out and they will let us eat out at half price, which we all thought was fantastic.

But they also told everyone they could go back to work. Now they’re just locking us down entirely. So, they took our freedom away and then delivered it to us on a plate and now they’re taking it away again – it’s like a game to them.

And I don’t know if anyone has realised but police states have curfews – this is just dictatorship.

It’s just a shame the UK Government wasn’t intelligent enough and gracious enough to spend money on essential things like preparation for this widely anticipated global pandemic rather than endeavouring to buy peoples votes, now we’re all paying for it, some of us with our lives.

Anti-lockdown Protesters Fight With Police

Anti lockdown protesters fought with police after at least 15,000 demonstrators descended on Trafalgar Square as part of a demonstration against coronavirus measures in the United Kingdom.

Attendees of the ‘We Do Not Consent’ rally ditched their masks as they crowded into the London square, despite Metropolitan Police pleading with people to adhere to Britain’s coronavirus restrictions.

Crowds, who were also warned that violence would not be tolerated at the assemblage, held placards reading ‘is this freedom?’ and ‘end the crazy rules’ as they herded to central London to protest against Britain’s coronavirus constraints.

Piers Corbyn, 73, brother of ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was among the crowd alongside conspiracy theorist David Icke, 68, who has made a succession of false assertions linking COVID 19 to 5G technology.

Demonstrators ditched their face masks and ignored social distancing measures as they hollered ‘we will win’ and waved flags before the Metropolitan Police arrived to close down the event as crowds had not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment.

Skirmishes broke out between protestors and police later in the day, with those in attendance chanting ‘shame on you’ and pushing officers as they passed through the packed populace.

In one moment, a woman appeared to be knocked to the ground as a struggle broke out behind her.

In a statement, Scotland Yard said the violation had put people in danger of transmitting the virus which voided their risk assessment and left those at the event no longer exempt from COVID 19 restrictions.

The force said that they asked those in Trafalgar Square to vacate as officers engaged with the masses. The Met also confirmed that ten people had been apprehended following demonstrations with four officers injured, two requiring hospital treatment.

The demonstration came as nearly 18 million Britons, a quarter of the population, will be living under tighter coronavirus restrictions after the United Kingdom reported a record 6,874 new cases.

Those in Leeds were prohibited from socialising with other households at homes or in pubs, bars, restaurants and parks, as Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool also saw draconian measures brought into force.

Households in the Welsh town of Llanelli are set to be barred from entering each other’s homes and gardens, with the nation’s two largest cities of Cardiff and Swansea to follow suit.

Residents will also be banned from entering or leaving the areas without a reasonable excuse.

The protestors looked like a good cross-section of society with people attired in everyday clothing, not for a fight and they were unarmed but were met by a pack of heavily protected state police fitted with body armour, crash helmets and batons.

The protest was peaceful, well, it was until the police turned up, and if these protestors want to put themselves at risk of the virus, then it’s up to them, and the sooner everyone gets it the better because herd immunity seems to have worked extremely well in Sweden, they definitely don’t believe in taking their countries freedoms away.

Well done to the FREEDOM FIGHTERS – you believed in the cause and no one was paying you or buying you, you did this because you believe in a future for all of us and the more restrictions we accept the more we will get.

There will be no back to normal if we follow the rules and if we accept these constraints things will get worse. Yes, numerous people have had coronavirus and it is real, but the loss of our freedoms concerns me more.

And when this vaccine for COVID 19 is rushed through, you can bet your bottom dollar it will be compulsory, and we are giving up our rights already with most saying it’s for our own good, with folks saying that if we do as we’re told, things will return to normal.

The constraints will get worse, the vaccine will eventually be compulsory, no matter what the side effects are because by then we would have given up our freedoms and it’s an extremely slippery slope, and remember this when your newborn is being vaccinated with God knows what, then maybe we will see that giving up our rights was not such a good idea.

NHS COVID-19 App ‘Bug’ Refuses To Let Users Enter Negative Test Results

It was revealed that people in England using the NHS Track and Trace app are unable to enter a negative test result if they didn’t use it to book their swab, but when users tell it they have coronavirus symptoms, either a high temperature, new persistent cough or loss of taste or smell, the app instantly launches a 14-day self-isolation countdown and advises them to get tested.

However, if they don’t book through the device, it won’t let them enter a negative result or turn off the countdown – the Department for Health and Social Care said the app will be updated.

Hundreds of people who downloaded the app after its takeoff on Thursday, when they had already booked a test, have experienced issues with the app.

Professor Deborah Ryan, from the University of Portsmouth, said that the bug was confusing as the app doesn’t tell you that you can’t enter negative tests booked outside of it.

She added that the app still tells you to quarantine if you entered symptoms, which means you can’t turn off the self-isolation alert in the app.

Test results from swabs by the Office for National Statistics surveys, NHS Hospitals or Public Health England also can’t be entered into the app, meaning it may miss people who need to self-isolate.

More than four million people have downloaded the much-touted software over the past three days, with experts warning they need half of the United Kingdom to get the device for it to be effective.

The coronavirus apps launched in Scotland and Northern Ireland have not experienced these issues and the Department of Health said the use of the app was entirely voluntary and advice to get a test or self-isolate couldn’t be enforced.

At a press conference on Thursday Professor Christophe Fraser, who helped to design the app, said it would be effective at impeding the spread of the virus if it was downloaded by just 15 per cent of people.

He said, this about the benefit to the person in your local network and that the answer was that you need to download the app for it to have an effect for you and on your personal social network and that you need to encourage your friends and family to do the same.

But is this another brainiac app, purely designed to control the people? And should we really download the app? Yes, of course, be responsible, but certainly don’t pander to the power monsters et cetera.

It seems getting tested is a new trend, but then I hear that bulk buying toilet roll is making a comeback. In the end, they won’t need you to have an app on your phone to track you and our Government will have a lot to explain and isn’t our Government clever, they’re letting us govern ourselves rather than the bureaucrats and we don’t even realise it.

Here’s a suggestion, why don’t we all congregate on our doorsteps at 8 pm and clap loudly and clank pots and pans to scare the virus away because evidently, the virus is only active after 10 pm.

Of course, it’s challenging times for everyone, especially with not being able to see each other as often because of the coronavirus. However, evidently, we have a Government that knows what they’re doing.

And apparently, we should trust Boris Johnson and now Boris Johnson believes that the virus doesn’t get busy until after 10 pm, which is evidently a good thing because then we can do what we want up until 10 pm.

But evidently, there mustn’t be more than six of you, because of course, everyone knows that it’s the seventh one, that’s the fishy one.

And now the Government knows that the virus is so clever it knows whether you’re in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales and that’s why we’ve all got different rules because that’s how intelligent it is.

Does She Need Help?

Carrie Symonds has sparked a debate on social media after she was spotted wearing baby Wilfred in a forward-facing baby carrier while out for a walk in Italy.

Boris Johnson’s fiancee, 32, was seen with her five-month-old son in Lake Como, where she’s staying at the £600 a night Grand Hotel Tremezzo on a girls holiday.

Carrie, who was casually attired in a Ganni frock and Superga trainers, carried five-month-old Wilfred in the £119.90 Ergobaby 360 All Positions Baby Carrier.

The carrier is intended for use with newborns aged up to four months old and features an ergonomic design meaning baby can be carried forwards or opposed to facing inwards.

However, several people took to Twitter to call out the Prime Minister’s partner for wearing it incorrectly, with some expressing concern for the little one’s well being and several people noted that he was uncomfortable and on one side.

One person tweeted: ‘For the love of God will someone teach @carriesymonds how to use a baby carrier properly. That poor kid is constantly been dangled by his crotch with his head all over the place’.

Another wrote: ‘Dear @carriesymonds please will you google safe babywearing? He should be facing you and much higher up, close enough to kiss.’

And one remarked: ‘Outrageous behaviour. Made worse by a photo showing Wilfred’s head dangling off to the side without support. @carriesymonds needs some parenting instructions.’

According to the Ergobaby website, the ergonomic 360 All Positions carrier offers every carry position with a forward-facing option.

The carrier comes with a lumbar support waistbelt for extra lower back comfort and adjustable padded shoulder straps for neck and shoulder comfort and Emily Williamson, a professional carrying consultant and founder of South London Slings, told a news outlet that there are tons of carriers which offer the option of carrying your baby facing outwards.

The bottom line is that your baby needs to be able to completely support their head independently so that it stays steady as you walk.

Babies tend to have the strength for this anywhere between 3-6 months, before this, they should always be held high on the chest, facing towards the body.

If your baby’s head tilts or drops at all as you walk then they’re not ready to be carried facing outwards and all babies will go more limp when they’re sleeping and if their head drops forward it can make it hard for them to breathe.

So, Carrie Symonds should be ashamed of herself and she’s obviously not that bright and it’s surprising she even remembered that she had a baby, but never mind which way to carrie a baby, who’s paying for the £600 a night hotel – can’t be Boris Johnson because evidently, he’s broke.

But these carriers are dangerous, full stop because if the mother falls over, the first to get injured is the baby and it’s truly incredible and shameful that the Prime Minister’s girlfriend is even in Italy.

He leads the country and the advice to travel to Italy is only essential travel.

If you lead a country and create laws, then you must obey them, but it seems that if you’re Conservative Government then there’s no need to obey the rules and you know what, this baby will want for absolutely nothing, will see no poverty, will not go unfed, unwashed, unkissed, unadored and will receive all that’s needed to have a lovely life.

But for crying out loud put the child in a pram if you can’t carry him correctly.

This image of him with his head lolling all over the place, all one can think of is how painful his little neck will be after and Carrie Symonds seems clueless of this.

Babies heads are quite heavy compared to the strength of their neck muscles to support them and he would be so much better in a pram and she looked like she was carrying a 25 kg bag of spuds.

Mould That Transformed The World

The penicillin mould accidentally grown by the physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming in London in 1928 has had its genome sequenced for the first time.

Researchers from the United Kingdom used frozen samplings of Sir Fleming’s original strain of the fungus and compared them with their current, industrially used counterparts.

The sample of Sir Alexander Fleming’s strain they grew had been kept on ice in the culture collections at the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International, Oxfordshire and they discovered that the wild UK strain used a slightly different way to produce penicillin than the strains currently used to manufacture the antibiotic in the US.

The discoveries could offer new ways to improve the widescale production of the drug, which is used to treat a combination of bacterially derived infections.

Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the first known antibiotic when a mould of the genus Penicillium accidentally began growing in a Petri dish in his laboratory at the St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, which is today part of the Imperial College London.

He noticed that in a receptacle, which had been left uncovered near an open window, where it became contaminated by the mould, the Staphylococcus bacteria he had left cultivating during a break to Suffolk had died where the fungus had grown.

In contrast, Staphylococci colonies growing further away from the mould were untouched, an observation that led him to comment ‘That’s funny’.

Sir Alexander Fleming was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on penicillin and antibiotics, along with colleagues Ernst Chain and Howard Florey.

Although Sir Alexander Fleming’s strain of the mould is famously referred to as the actual origin of penicillin, production of the antibiotic in the US quickly changed over to using a different type, one that grew on mouldy cantaloupes.

Furthermore, this naturally derived fungus went on to alter over time, as drug manufacturers artificially selected for strains that delivered higher volumes of penicillin and therefore proved to be more lucrative to use.

In their study, the researchers grew mould from an actual sample of Sir Alexander Fleming’s fungus that had been kept frozen in the culture collections of the Centre of Agriculture and Bioscience International.

Paper author and evolutionary biologist Timothy Barraclough of Imperial College London and the University of Oxford said that they initially set out to use Alexander Fleming’s fungus for some other experiments, but then discovered, to their astonishment, that no one had sequenced the genome of this original Penicillium, despite its documented importance to the field.

Professor Barraclough and associates concentrated in particular on two kinds of genes, those that encode for the enzymes that the fungus uses to produce penicillin, and those that regulate those enzymes, for instance by controlling their manufacture.

The team found that both Sir Alexander Fleming’s UK strain and those used industrially in the US had the same regulatory gene code, but the latter variants of the fungus had more compositions of the regulatory genes, allowing them to make more of the drug.

Furthermore, the researchers found that the genes that code for the penicillin producing enzymes were different between the strains isolated in the UK and the US. This, they said, shows that wild Penicillium developed differently between the two countries, leading to slightly different versions of the enzymes.

As moulds like Penicillium produced antibiotics to enable them to fight off microbes, it’s likely that the UK and US strains differ because they had adjusted to best fight the local bacterial populations that each strain encountered.

Paper author and biologist Ayush Pathak, also of Imperial College London said that their research could help illuminate novel solutions to fighting antibiotic resistance.

Sir Alexander Fleming’s findings have paved the way for further innovations in the world of antibiotics. Of course, someone else might have come across it, but it was he who realised that what he saw had a significance, therefore it’s only right that he takes the credit.

Others have taken the research further, that’s only natural, that’s called progress, and in the case of penicillin, thank heaven for that because it’s been proven to be so valuable and he’s literally saved hundreds of millions of lives.

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