The Bank of England governor has said he is "very sorry" that UK inflation is rising amid forecasts the cost of living could reach as much as 5%.


Andrew Bailey told the BBC that households were already feeling the impact of rising prices.

"I'm very sorry that's happening," he said. "None of us want to see that happen."

On Thursday, the Bank surprised financial markets by voting to keep the interest rate unchanged.

A US federal appeals court has issued a stay on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers, freezing the requirement over constitutional concerns.

Biden's mandate says companies with 100 or more employees must require their workers to either get the Covid-19 vaccine or be tested weekly. Numerous Republican states and companies, such as conservative outlet Daily Wire, have already presented legal challenges to Biden's controversial mandate before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stepped in.

The court put a hold on the mandate on Saturday before its January deadline over "grave statutory and constitutional concerns."

In previous installments, I introduced the Great Reset idea1 and treated it in terms of its economic2 and ideological3 components. In this, the sixth installment, I will discuss what the Great Reset entails in terms of governance and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR), closing with remarks about the overall Great Reset project and its implications.

According to Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the 4-IR follows the first, second, and third Industrial Revolutions — the mechanical, electrical, and digital, respectively.4 The 4-IR builds on the digital revolution, but Schwab sees the 4-IR as an exponential takeoff and convergence of existing and emerging fields, including Big Data; artificial intelligence; machine learning; quantum computing; and genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. The consequence is the merging of the physical, digital, and biological worlds. The blurring of these categories ultimately challenges the very ontologies by which we understand ourselves and the world, including "what it means to be human."5

The specific applications that make up the 4-R are too numerous and sundry to treat in full, but they include a ubiquitous internet, the internet of things, the internet of bodies, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and more.

Jim Caviezel belted out Mel Gibson's iconic battle cry from "Braveheart" while speaking to a crowd of QAnon supporters in Las Vegas over the weekend.

The conservative actor, 53 — who most famously worked with Gibson on the 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ" — gave a rambling 20-minute address at the "For God & Country: Patriot Double Down" conference, rallying the far-right crowd to fight for their freedom. The moment was captured in footage that's now going viral on social media.

The four-day event featured "a guest lineup of QAnon sympathizers and extremist-right figureheads," according to the Las Vegas Sun. Tickets started at a staggering $650.

Caviezel was among 40 far-right speakers who took to the stage. Others included Jason Sullivan, a former Roger Stone aide best-known for working on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and Dr. Stella Immanuel, who hit headlines after claiming Hydroxychloroquine cured COVID-19.

However, it was Caviezel's appearance that attracted the most attention on social media.

After a fascinating week in America, some important trends are clear - with the most obvious being that voters expect much more from Joe Biden, increasing the need for the Democrats to get their agenda through Congress.

Headlines across America are proclaiming the Tuesday elections as a major setback for President Joe Biden. Even Gayle King of left-leaning CBS called election night "a major victory for Republicans," and CNN's Democratic political commentator, Van Jones, declared it a "five-alarm fire" for Democrats. While the election results have focused the attention of the left-leaning media on Democratic weaknesses, the voters were clearly paying attention to issues, too, because even in an "off, off year," the election had a record turnout.

Left-leaning Virginia casts its vote against the Democrats

Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic governor of Virginia whose last term ended in January 2018, lost to Republican Glenn Youngkin in a state claimed handily by Biden a year ago. With 99% of the vote in, Youngkin won by a 2% margin.

From July 2016 to July 2017, the popular McAuliffe had served as chair of the National Governors Association, and from 2001-2005 he was chair of the Democratic National Committee. The race is being seen as a significant upset because such strong gubernatorial credentials and campaign experience made him the natural go-to guy to be the next governor of a left-leaning state, running against a tycoon-turned-politician like Youngkin.

McAuliffe's strategy of turning Youngkin's Donald-Trump-style credentials against him failed in a mostly blue state, and Trump seized that failure to claim, "The MAGA movement is bigger and stronger than ever before." Youngkin made the cultural issues that energize MAGA voters the core of his campaign and turned the election map of Virginia into a blood-bath of red as a swath of counties voted Republican, except a handful in the most urban areas of the east coast and a single island of blue in the heart of the state, Albemarle County.

One particularly hot-button issue, which Youngkin repeatedly raised, was giving parents much more say in what is taught in the state's public schools. Youngkin had often quoted and criticized McAuliffe for proclaiming,

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

In a CNN exit poll, more than half of voters said parents should have more say in what is taught in schools, indicating that core issue for Youngkin drove the voter turnout. Democrats also appear to have lost their majority in the Virginia House of Delegates with four races not yet officially called.

Australia has accomplished its goal of fully vaccinating 80% of people aged 16 and older, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said as the country eases Covid-19 restrictions.

"We did it! We have hit the target of 80% of all Australians aged 16+ fully vaccinated, as set out in the National Plan," Morrison announced on Facebook.

"A huge thank you to everyone. This has been a massive Australian national effort, and the work doesn't stop here," the PM said, adding that 36 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered nationwide. He thanked the country's healthcare workers and pharmacies for their efforts during the immunization campaign. Morrison said 99% of Australians aged over 70 have received at least one dose, and 90% of them are fully vaccinated.

Boys and girls at a primary school in Scotland have been asked to come to classes today wearing skirts to promote equality.

The initiative at Castleview Primary in Edinburgh mirrors one in Spain.

However, the request from teachers for pupils to participate in "Wear a Skirt to School Day" has been greeted with a mixed response from parents. Some have backed the campaign but one mother implored the school to "let kids be kids".

Teachers in Scotland got the idea after teachers and children in Spain wore skirts to show solidarity with a boy who was expelled for wearing one last year.

November 4 has now been called "Wear a Skirt to School Day" in Spain.

In an animated exchange during a Senate hearing Thursday, Republican Senator Rand Paul grilled Dr. Fauci on his repeated claims that the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Paul cited the NIH's recent admission that it funded experiments in Wuhan designed to make a naturally occurring bat coronavirus more dangerous, and accused Fauci of playing semantic games with the definition of "gain of function" research to avoid admitting that he lied in his previous appearances before the committee.

"Your persistent denials... are not simply a stain in your reputation but a clear and present danger to the country and to the world," Paul said, before demanding that Fauci resign as the director of the NIAID.

80% of the league is vaccinated

Professional hockey player Boris Sadecky passed away on Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest last Friday during a match in Austria.

Sadecky was 24 and in good health. 80% of the league's players are vaccinated with the experimental COVID vaccines.

Poland is set to build a new border wall on its eastern flank in an effort to end a sharp spike in asylum seekers attempting to cross over from neighboring Belarus, after Warsaw declared a state of emergency over the situation.

On Wednesday, the country's president, Andrzej Duda, signed into force new legislation for the construction of the barrier, after it was backed by the national parliament. Expected to cost more than $400 million, work on the new wall will likely be completed next summer. Running close to half the length of the 400-kilometer border, it will be kitted out with both motion sensors and surveillance systems.

Warsaw has warned that around 500 people a day are attempting to cross into the country illegally, with a sharp spike in recent months. The EU has accused Belarus of laying on flights from troubled destinations like Iraq and Iran, and of encouraging would-be migrants to make the border crossing.