Putin labels G7 price ceiling on Russian energy ‘utterly stupid’ Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a warning to the west over plans to implement a price ceiling on Russian energy imports, calling it an ‘utterly stupid decision.’ The G7 announced on Friday that they would attempt to deny Russia access to the means to export its energy, such as by denying shipping insurance, unless the commodities are being sold at a price at or below that agreed upon by…
Stanley Johnson did write a novel called ‘The Virus’ A post on Instagram claims that Stanley Johnson, father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wrote a novel called ‘The Virus’ in 1982 and includes a synopsis of the book. This is correct. The book was initially published in 1982, and was republished this summer during the coronavirus pandemic. The novel was originally titled ‘The Marburg Virus’, and loosely draws on a real outbreak of a virus in Marburg, Germany, in 1967. The outbreak was associated with laboratory…
