Meghan Markle and Harry's Christmas card discussed by experts The Duke and the Duchess of Sussex have put together an eclectic lineup of personalities for their podcast as they looked back on 2020. The holiday special also features their son Archie Harrison, who was heard speaking publicly for the first time. According to the couple, their […]
Michael Gove says secondary schools will have 'later return' School leaders have also warned that teachers and pupils may be put at risk if secondaries reopen, as planned, while a new ultra-transmissible strain of Covid-19 is driving a rise in hospital admissions. But Downing Street insisted that its plan for a “staggered” reopening of schools […]
The inner workings of John Major’s government have been laid bare in newly released archive documents which show how aides were asked to procure an armoured limo for the PM, prevented him from snubbing Margaret Thatcher and from getting caught up in a TV comic’s ruse. The tranche of documents, published today for the first […]
LONDON (REUTERS) – A new variant of the novel coronavirus does not appear to cause more severe illness than other variants, according to a matched study by Public Health England. Scientists say the new variant can spread more rapidly. It was found in England in mid-December and led to other countries imposing travel restrictions to […]
MOSCOW (REUTERS) – Russian state investigators said on Tuesday (Dec 29) they had opened a new criminal case against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, accusing him of fraudulently spending public donations to organisations he controls on his personal needs. The move is likely to be seen as the latest sign that the Kremlin does not want […]
The British Foreign Office has said it is not legally obligated to provide assistance to a British-Iranian woman held in Iran since 2016, a position that raises questions about how much protection a Western power is willing to offer its citizens at risk, and what Britain’s international role should be after its exit from the […]
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Brexit: Government has 'screwed up' on fisheries says Blackford Business Secretary Alok Sharma is confident UK firms will be able to flourish with the increased clarity and certainty that has been added by the free trade agreement with Brussels, that is set to come into effect on January 1. Britain left the EU on January […]
Boris Johnson: Brexit deal is ‘glad tidings of great joy’ The European Research Group’s “star chamber” has been advised by lawyers that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s deal does indeed restore the UK’s sovereignty. In a significant show of support for the Prime Minister, Sir Bill Cash ‒ who convened the group of eurosceptic Tory MPs […]
BBC ‘indulging itself on licence fee money’ says expert The BBC has sparked outrage after it emerged that the broadcaster spent more than £26m on redundancy payouts. Figures released today showed that the total amount of cash the BBC allocated for redundancies over the past eight months reached £26.6 million. The cost of the huge […]