THE RED LIST RULES
● Anyone planning to travel to or from any of the 33 “red list’ countries must book an official £1,750 quarantine package online before the trip.
● During their 10-day stay in a supervised hotel, they must take two Covid tests. Anyone who tests positive must stay another 10 days.
● Tough fines for breaking quarantine rules include £1,000 for failing to take a mandatory test, £2,000 for missing the second test and up to £10,000 for failing to quarantine in a designated hotel.
● Anyone caught providing false information on official forms about their journey could be jailed for up to 10 years.
A PENSIONER accused of murdering his wife five days into the first lockdown said he snapped after struggling to sleep.
Anthony Williams, 70, said he was fretting at not being able to go to the bank to get money and fears of catching Covid at his age.
He told police he strangled Ruth, 67, in March after she told him to “get over it”. He added: “I just snapped. I had my hands around her throat, and I was choking the living daylights out of her.”
The attack began in the bedroom of their home in Brynglas, Cwmbran, and continued downstairs.
Ruth was found in the porch. Williams, who told police he aimed to kill himself, denies murder but admits manslaughter through diminished responsibility. The Swansea Crown Court trial continues.
ARCADIA workers who have lost their livelihoods will be appalled that administrators handling the collapse of their former employer are charging up to £1,202 an hour.
Former staff who earned meagre wages and are now worried about the giant deficit in their pension fund will wonder why accountancy giant Deloitte is making a fortune from the disaster that has hit their lives. The firm is expected to earn £25million in fees.
These experts have an important role to play in ensuring creditors are repaid but, especially at a time when firms in other sectors of the economy are under intense pressure to deliver value for money at a competitive price, it is grimly ironic that accountants should collect superstar salaries.
PIERS Corbyn (Jeremy’s brother), made a profoundly tasteless and absurd comparison between the Government’s vaccine programme and the Auschwitz concentration camp.
It was both a mad and a bad thing to say.
It was not however anti-Semitic. Mr Corbyn, below, was comparing the Government to the Nazis, not to the suffering Jews.
We might well see it as trivialising the Holocaust but that is because we think Piers Corbyn is talking utter rot.
If he, however, genuinely (and deludedly) believes that millions of Britons are the subjects of a monstrous state experiment, he will not see the comparison as superficial.
Why do I care? Because genuine anti-Semitism is dangerous and wicked, therefore we would do well not to call it at the drop of a hat.