LONDON – He scored the biggest electoral victory in a generation but as the first anniversary of that seminal achievement is approaching, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government resembles a zombie, stumbling aimlessly from one crisis to another. Only a month remains before Britain’s current free trade status with the European Union expires, yet no […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Britain left the bloc at 11pm on January 31, but not everyone in the UK has given up on EU membership. Despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeatedly rejecting her independence calls, Scottish […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. In a move to herald in a new wave of funding, Mr Sunak is set to announce billions of pounds worth of measures to help achieve Boris Johnson’s plan to level up […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Queen, 94, is the longest-reigning monarch in British history and has served as head of state for the past 68 years. Retirement plans for the Queen have once again surfaced in recent […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Royal commentator Marlene Koenig has argued Queen Elizabeth II is unlikely to give up the Crown and pass it onto her son Prince Charles, despite speculation mounting due to her old age. […]
PARIS (AFP) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday (Nov 23) on charges of trying to bribe a judge, in what could be a humiliating postscript to a political career tainted by a litany of legal investigations. Though he is not the first modern head of state in the dock – his […]
The UK is to become the first country to begin clinical trials of a new coronavirus antibody treatment aimed at people with a weakened immune system who cannot be vaccinated. A volunteer in Manchester will be the first in the world to receive AstraZeneca’s new “antibody cocktail” as part of the trial to test whether […]
NANCY, FRANCE (AFP) – A French court on Friday (Nov 20) handed a woman an eight-month suspended sentence for attempting to blackmail Manchester United attacker Anthony Martial after the pair struck up a relationship online. A judicial source said judges had imposed a harsher penalty than the six-month suspended sentence that prosecutors had asked for. […]
NANCY, FRANCE (AFP) – A French court on Friday (Nov 20) handed a woman an eight-month suspended sentence for attempting to blackmail Manchester United attacker Anthony Martial after the pair struck up a relationship online. A judicial source said judges had imposed a harsher penalty than the six-month suspended sentence that prosecutors had asked for. […]
A lonely bachelor who bought two pet geese after his girlfriend broke up with him during lockdown has been told to get rid of them because they are too loud. Sven Kirby, 34, has been threatened with a fine of up to £5,000 because of his pets’ constant honking. The birds – named Beep Beep […]