UP AND down the land yesterday there were appropriately socially distanced events held to pay tribute to the generation of Britons that defeated Nazi Germany.

WE'RE living in strange times all right. But the weird world of Covid isolation took on a dreamlike quality for me and Richard the week before last. That was when we filmed our week-long series about lockdown reading for Channel 4, five shows which were broadcast this week from our living room.

PROFESSOR Neil "do as I say, not as I do" Ferguson has had a bad week, which he brought entirely on himself.

THE commemoration was heartfelt, the nostalgia moving, the gratitude profound.

Uber is cutting 3,700 full-time workers, about 14% of its workforce, and its CEO will give up his base salary with the nation largely still in lockdown.

Turkish prosecutors have charged four pilots, an airline company official and two flight attendants for their alleged roles in former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan to Turkey and from there to Beirut, Turkey's state-run news agency reported Thursday.

Newcastle's £300m takeover is set to complete within a week.

CRUISE lines are assuring older passengers that they will not be discriminated against for future travel, despite being classed as some of the most vulnerable to coronavirus.

CRUISE holidays may begin for guests the moment they step onboard, however, the planning and preparation needed to create the ultimate experience begins long before. Journey Planner Denitza Dimitrov, one of the forces behind river cruise company Emerald Waterways, explains how her job helps to make cruise dreams a reality.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has asked for more help from London clubs in the Premier League and the Championship.

Daily Express Chief Sports Writer Neil Squires urges the EFL and its clubs to protect their long-term future once the coronavirus crisis ends.

Christian Pulisic has sent a message to Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp regarding his time at Borussia Dortmund.

A U.N. Security Council meeting on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe on Friday saw a clash between Russia and some Europeans, calls for unity to fight COVID-19, and warnings that the seeds of a new global conflict must be prevented from growing.

Gần như tất cả các đảo nổi VN đang quản lý đều có chùa và dân, còn rau muống biển thì có vị 'như cách đây 30 năm' trong đất liền, một Việt kiều nói.

Các chuyên gia đã bắt đầu đánh giá khả năng phục hồi khi đại dịch Covid-19 được khống chế, và những quốc gia nào phát triển trở lại tốt nhất.

Vấn đề hoà giải, hoà hợp vẫn còn nhức nhối giữa những người Việt thuộc hai phe, GS Carl Thayer, nhà nghiên cứu chính trị VN và bang giao quốc tế, nói.

TS Phạm Đỗ Chí nói cần phải tri ân những thành tích của bậc cha anh trong việc xây dựng miền Nam vì di sản của họ nay vẫn còn rất quan trọng, và ngày càng rõ rệt.

Có tam quyền phân lập, có tư pháp độc lập liệu mới mong giảm hay chấm dứt được các vụ án xét xử oan sai, theo bình luận của luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài.

Liệu bàn cờ thế giới có khác đi nếu Anh chấp nhận can thiệp và Mỹ đưa pháo đài bay B-29 tới oanh tạc Điện Biên Phủ hồi 1954, giải vây cho Pháp?

Tài liệu này cũng nói Trung Quốc có thể cần phải chuẩn bị cho một tình huống xấu nhất là xung đột quân sự với Mỹ.

Hai khu tượng đài Xô Viết nhắc lại những năm tháng bi tráng, đầy nước mắt của nước Đức.

Can't find on this website where to write about the 3/18 Magna quake just to mention it caved in a strong cement border wall, damaged our outdoor pool possibly beyond repair, & put cracks in the foundation around the pool.

STRICTLY star Craig Revel Horwood has revealed that the show can still go on in September despite coronavirus - but it will be Strictly Social Distancing.

BRITAIN'S army of volunteers have been hailed as "lifesavers" by carrying out 75,000 tasks during the lockdown crisis.

Here's the question. With coronavirus raising its ugly head in this green and pleasant land, and with a pressing desire not to catch the horrible bug or pass it on to nearest and dearest - not to mention vulnerable strangers - at which point do we pitch in and speak out?

MAYBE it's because on my BBC Radio London Breakfast Show we currently talk of almost nothing else from 7-10am every day - we do try to slot in other subjects but no one calls about them - that by the time I emerge from the studio I'm so acutely aware of steadily encroaching coronavirus that I jump three feet in the air if somebody so much as sneezes.

I love her so much I'd like to send her a bunch of daffs and a hug. I've never met her, but she's 100 percent my Pin-up Pensioner Poster Girl for coronavirus.

WE ARE astounding, we human beings. There's a global pandemic. We have no idea when we'll see, let alone hug, the people we love most in the world.

HOW did you muddle through the longest weekend in world history? Here's how my other half and I botched the whole flipping thing up over at Feltz Towers. Following excellent advice, we were determined to have a structure, a schedule and stick to it.

WE DON'T usually think of the Queen as the "mother of the nation".

WHO knew, amid all the panic and anxiety, our dominant lockdown obsession would be food? We're either queuing for it - at the right social distance, of course - or sleuthing out delivery slots with Kojak-like cunning.

REMEMBER the phrase: "He had a good war"? When we heard it at school it seemed an oxymoron. I recall our history teacher, sensing our confusion, elaborating thus: "For some war was deadly. The bereaved and the disabled never recovered. For some it was a hiatus, a long and frightening test of endurance. Yet some excelled.

LABELS, who needs them? Do you really want to be branded a lockdown "accepter", "sufferer" or "resister"? What is the point of shoving us into personality pigeonholes as if we are predestined to capitulate, throw in the towel, or give up?

YOU might say the odds have always been stacked against age-gap relationships. The tut-tutters predict doom the moment they so much as sniff a union between May and December. "What does that old fool possibly think that beautiful damsel sees in him?" they ask. "How could that ancient crone believe that hunky young buck finds her attractive?"

SHOPPERS could save hundreds of pounds a year simply by making the swap from fresh foods to tinned alternatives, according to an exclusive cost comparison. What's more, an expert nutritionist weighs in on why buying canned food could help you to stick to healthy habits, especially in lockdown.

TOADSTOOLS are simply fascinating, scientifically speaking. The familiar caps-on-stalks are only part of a much bigger threadlike organism that lives entirely underground, sending up the familiar parasol structures to distribute their microscopic spores.

Manchester City are preparing for Bayern Munich to make a move for Leroy Sane.

Manchester United are hoping to sign Jadon Sancho this summer as part of a revamp under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Newcastle are keen on landing Philippe Coutinho and Liverpool may be able to sign Timo Werner on the cheap.

Nothing better illustrates than the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health, the relentless appetite for state control and removal of personal choice that exists as much in academic circles as political ones. The report's contents are even more indigestible than its title.

IF IT wasn't so serious, it would make you roar with laughter. That we were unable to boot out of the country a "brutal" killer, a "devious" rapist, a child rapist, other sex offenders, and drug and gun dealers due to a faulty mobile phone mast is the stuff of comedy writers.

IT MADE for a testy moment on the radio. Home Secretary Priti Patel was on my breakfast show, proudly extolling the virtues of the new immigration system announced last week, with some its key cornerstones being that as of January next year, all migrants must have a job paying a minimum of £25,600 plus a certain level of qualifications and be able to speak English.

HE'D BEEN a military hero. Serving with the 1st battalion of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, he'd survived being blown up at least once by the IRA and also served in Iraq.

THERE's yet more evidence that climate change protesters clearly believe there is nothing they can do nor protest they can stage that cannot be justified by the validity of their cause.

IT WAS achieved with almost military precision. A wall was breached and a platoon of trusted lieutenants and foot soldiers was unleashed on the nation, who were to perform brilliantly under continued fire.

IT SIMPLY defies both belief and description. The coronavirus scare is like nothing anyone currently living on this planet has ever encountered - and we all need to get used to a world that will change forever. At the time of writing, both the number of those infected and, tragically, the tally of those who do not survive continue to rise sharply.

IT WAS the moment a nation came together to show its appreciation to an unbelievably brave group of people faced with an unenviable challenge.

IF YOU'VE been fortunate not to have had restless nights or indeed nightmares during these hideous times, then surely the projected cost of the lockdown to the nation's economy must have resulted in troubled sleep?

AS IT seems that old saying "Cometh the hour, cometh the man" has never been more apt, it's also entirely reasonable to say the world has been extremely poorly served by a raft of groups and organisations that should have been there to help - but that have failed lamentably.

ON COUNTLESS occasions on this page I've argued forcefully for, and supported journalists in, pursuing the truth with a rigorous and forensic determination. That's what we're put on Earth to do: to sit at the back of the room staring quizzically and sometimes snorting derisively as those in power tell us the truth as they see fit to present it. Our role is straightforward: holding to account those in power, however uncomfortable or ugly the consequences might be.

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic is forcing the political elite to finally acknowledge what the general public have known for some time; as a nation we have allowed ourselves to become far too dependent on importing essential goods and cheap labour from across the globe. The financial crisis of 2008 exposed as a myth the claim that globalisation would lead to ever greater prosperity for all. The current crisis has made it crystal clear that globalisation, as well as being bad news for our economy, puts lives at risk.