Politics (Page 401)

In Ottawa, a protest against vaccine mandates has become an international sensation. American far-right personalities are behind its online rise.Continue Reading

Rishi Sunak: the lightbulbs are coming for you. HM Treasury/ Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND After years of being relatively low, inflation is now re-emerging with a vengeance. The Bank of England expects it to rise to more than 7% by the spring of this year. Shortages of both workers and goodsContinue Reading

Channel 5’s decision to axe Australian soap opera Neighbours has led to widespread dismay among British people in their thirties and upwards. After 36 years on British screens, the network said it will instead invest more in “original UK drama”. Although its 1990 heyday of 20 million viewers on BBCContinue Reading

Today, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Luke Pollard held a debate in Parliament calling for bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides to be banned. This call comes after news that the Environment Secretary and Cornish MP George Eustice has approved neonicotinoid pesticides for use on sugar beets in an attempt to tackle virus yellows. Government scientists hadContinue Reading

The Exeter Chiefs are the latest team to change their Native American branding. atsportphoto After two years of simply being called the Washington Football Team, the US capital’s American football franchise has unveiled its new name and branding: the Washington Commanders. Following over 80 years known as the Washington Redskins,Continue Reading

The Metropolitan Police are under fire after an official investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) revealed details of officers exchanging discriminatory and misogynistic messages. These included discussions about hitting and raping women, with reference to specific female colleagues, which officers involved dismissed as “banter”. The report comesContinue Reading

Against the backdrop of a western diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, China and Russia have marked the occasion by showing off their increasingly close relationship. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin posed for pictures with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the opening of the 2022 Winter Games, declaring their oppositionContinue Reading

Property magnate Jim Mansfield Jnr, who ordered the destruction of CCTV footage showing him with his former employee on the morning he was kidnapped by republican terrorists Dessie O’Hare and Declan ‘Whacker’ Duffy, has been jailed by the Special Criminal Court for 18 months. Sentencing Mansfield Jnr at the three-judge courtContinue Reading