Brexit: Expert reveals ‘problem’ with exporting fish to EU Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Association National Coordinator Alastair Sinclair Barrie argued Boris Johnson and his Government must address the issues fishermen have faced while exporting fish after Brexit. During an interview with Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Mr Sinclair described some of the problems facing trawlermen shipping their catch to Europe. He argued […]
Colorado’s cannabis industry has been forced to deal primarily in cash for years due to banking restrictions that pot advocates and banking lobbyists say put shops, growers and others at risk of theft. The industry is now cautiously optimistic this year that, with Democrats in power in Washington, its eight years of trying to lift […]
For people, policy and Colorado politics What’s The Spot? You’re reading an installment of our weekly politics newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered straight in your inbox. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s mileage reimbursement is now the subject of a formal complaint filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics. Accountable.US, a liberal government watchdog […]
PMQs: Johnson says Starmer wanted to stay in EU drugs agency Keir Starmer was embarrassed at Prime Minister’s Questions today as it was revealed he supported the UK to remain part of the European Medicines Agency which would have been a vaccination programme disaster. The EU’s rollout of the vaccine has been met with many […]
Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has no place on the House Education and Labor Committee and should instead be “confined to the dark recesses of the furthest building away from the House floor.” He was asked by Trey Gowdy, guest host of “Fox News Primetime,” for his […]
President Biden traveled to the Capitol on Tuesday evening to pay his respects to Brian D. Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died from injuries sustained during a Jan. 6 mob attack and whose remains were brought to lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. Mr. Biden spoke with members of Mr. Sicknick’s family in […]
WASHINGTON — A military judge on Tuesday indefinitely postponed the arraignment of three prisoners at Guantánamo Bay who were scheduled to make their first court appearance in 17 years of detention, finding that the coronavirus pandemic made it too risky to travel to the Navy base. The Indonesian prisoner known as Hambali, who has been […]
Medsafe has conditionally approved the Pfizer vaccine for use in New Zealand and the first Kiwis to get it will be MIQ workers and their families. The announcement was made at 2pm by the Ministry of Health and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the conditional approval won’t stop use of the vaccine but will require […]
Scotland would ‘rather be in the EU’ says SNP MP And the First Minister has been told she cannot expect a huge dividend even if Scotland rejoined the EU either – with the London School of Academics analysis suggesting such an outcome would make no difference. Academics from the London School of Economics’ Centre for […]
The company will ask federal regulators to increase the amount of coronavirus vaccine it can put in each vial by as much as 50 percent, potentially bolstering availability quickly. By Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland Moderna is asking United States regulators to approve what it says could be a remarkably simple proposal to speed up […]