S enior Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Government climbdown on revoking EU laws showed a lack of “backbone” and questioned whether it is seeking to remain aligned with the bloc. The Conservative former Cabinet minister also appeared to criticise the Prime Minister, saying it was “not factually accurate” to describeContinue Reading
T he Governor of the Bank of England said there is still a chance the UK Government will meet its pledge to halve inflation this year after a welcome drop below double-digits in April. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak previously promised to halve inflation by the end of this year, targetingContinue Reading
T he Home Secretary will not face an investigation over the row about whether she attempted to avoid a speeding fine, Downing Street confirmed on Wednesday. In a letter to Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak said he had conferred with independent adviser on ministerial interest Sir Laurie Magnus and determined noContinue Reading
More than a third of parents said they had to cut back on, or have gone without, heating over the past six months due to pressures caused by inflation, a report has said. The research is based on a survey of a sample of 315 parents, as well as 30Continue Reading
P rime Minister Rishi Sunak said net migration must be controlled or it could lead to “unmanageable pressures on housing, schools and hospitals in many of our communities”. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Sunak said: “We can’t have uncontrolled legal migration… when it is too high and too fast, itContinue Reading
B oris Johnson is accusing the Cabinet Office of making “bizarre and unacceptable” claims about him after the department referred the former prime minster to police over further potential lockdown rule breaches. Mr Johnson said the Government was “entirely wrong” after it emerged he had been reported to two forcesContinue Reading
Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – and strangest – syndromes known to psychiatry. 1. Fregoli syndromeContinue Reading
Satanic panic in the modern era: how conspiracy theories take hold in times of crisis. Canva Earlier this year the non-binary singer-songwriter, Sam Smith, performed their song Unholy, at the Grammys. Dressed in a red devil-horned top hat and latex costume, the performance drew upon popular occult and gothic aesthetics.Continue Reading
B oris Johnson has been reported to the police by the Cabinet Office over fresh claims that he may have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic. Information has been passed to two forces over alleged visits from the former prime minister’s friends to Chequers as well as potential breaches withinContinue Reading
A series of controversies in recent months has led to popular presenter Phillip Schofield calling time on his daytime television post at “This Morning”. Schofield, who has had a career of over 40 years in the entertainment business, started as a tea boy and worked his way up to become aContinue Reading
