Sweden didn't lock down... but people chose to minimise socialising themselves.
🇬🇧🇸🇪Which country had a smaller drop in GDP?
🔴ANSWER: Sweden
Sweden had a drop in GDP of 2.9%, while Britain's was 9.4%
🇬🇧🇸🇪Which country has a higher recorded death rate?
🔴ANSWER: Britain
As Sweden abolishes all domestic Covid restrictions, it emerges with one of Europe’s lower Covid death tolls: the rate is 1,614 per million people, just over half the amount of Britain (2,335)
🇬🇧🇸🇪Which country's economy is expected to be 5% larger this year than before the pandemic?
🔴ANSWER: Sweden
Sweden’s GDP fell by 2.9 per cent in 2020, while Britain’s collapsed by 9.4 per cent. Both have bounded back, but Sweden’s economy is this year expected to be five per cent larger than before the pandemic, versus about one per cent for the UK
🔴Russian invasion 'of Ukraine very highly likely', says James Cleverly
🔴Dmitry Polyanskiy, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, has accused the West of "warmongering" by creating an "artificial crisis" in Ukraine
🔴 Vladimir Putin may be preparing a cyber assault on British interests, the Home Secretary and GCHQ warned as they urged companies and public services to take "pre-emptive measures" to defend themselves against an attack
🔴 While criminals have used deception and disguise for centuries, the grifters who currently dominate our TV schedules represent a curiously modern phenomenon.
To scam effectively requires patience, preparation, luck and no small amount of confidence
💻 But since the web has blurred societal boundaries and opened doors to anybody with a broadband connection, today’s con artists have it easy.
The method for initial communications and the personal details of potential victims are right there, at the touch of a button
🏰 It was pitched as a new “castle in the cluster” for London’s Canary Wharf and would have created 424 homes with a public park at its base.
⚠️ Yet the Cuba Street tower hid what might seem a glaring omission for a 174-metre building: a second escape stair
Plans for new high-rises like the Cuba Street development have reopened a debate about the safety of the next generation of tower blocks, nearly five years after 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire telegraph.co.uk/art/architectu…
🔴Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday as tensions spike in the crisis over Ukraine, the Kremlin said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Russia's thinking 'may cost it a prosperous future', says Ursula von der Leyen