A No Deal Brexit could force up to 5MILLION plane tickets to be cancelled, a coalition of 300 top airlines have warned. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) sounded the alarm barely two months before Brexit – warning family trips this summer will be hit. Currently it is not known exactly which tickets could be […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, which is pretty squeamish about vulgar language, recently agreed to hear a case about whether the owner of a line of clothing sold under the brand name FUCT can register a trademark for the term. An official at the Patent and Trademark Office said no, reasoning that the term sounded […]

Theresa May faces a furious backlash today as she prepares to reveal her Plan B for Brexit. Speaking from 3.30pm on ‘Blue Monday’, supposedly most depressing day of the year, the Prime Minister will tell MPs her next steps after her Brexit deal suffered the biggest defeat in Commons history. But in a phone call […]

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says her party has “no business” in Westminster – but that hasn’t stopped MPs claiming €4.5m in expenses since 2010. Ms McDonald has again defended Sinn Féin’s policy of abstentionism at a time when Brexit poses a massive threat to the island of Ireland. The party has seven MPs […]

WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, plans this week to bring up legislation that would immediately reopen the government — with funding for shuttered agencies through the end of the fiscal year — and incorporate President Trump’s proposal to offer temporary protections to some immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion for his border […]

I love the BBC, but Question Time host Fiona Bruce’s appalling treatment of Diane Abbott undermines trust in one of the world’s greatest news organisations. The new host of the flagship discussion show is said to have mocked, off camera, a black woman enduring terrible racist misogyny, then, with an ignorant intervention, triggered audience ridicule […]

Due to a lack of voting-by-proxy procedures in U.K. Parliament, one Labour MP decided to delay the birth of her child in order to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit deal, which took place on Tuesday. Tulip Siddiq, Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, was nine months pregnant and had been encouraged by her doctor to give […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday said an upcoming proposal by President Donald Trump to provide temporary protections for some undocumented immigrants in return for building a wall on the southwestern border with Mexico was “unacceptable.” Trump’s plan also does not “represent a good faith effort to restore certainty […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to announce on Saturday his support for extending deportation protections for undocumented immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall along the southern border with Mexico, as Republican lawmakers and White House aides have pressured him to end the shutdown. Mr. Trump is expected to support […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will propose a deal on Saturday meant to end a 29-day partial government shutdown, offering a compromise with Democrats on immigration but sticking to his demand for funding for a border wall, a source familiar with his plan said. In a speech to be delivered from the White House, […]