Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has added his support to call for a national memorial day to fishermen lost at sea. In a debate in the House of Commons called by Hull MP Karl Turner, Luke said: “In Plymouth we have lost four fishers in recentContinue Reading
VGstockstudio / Shutterstock With the new year on the way, no doubt many headlines will be urging readers to set resolutions to lose the weight they may have put on over the holidays. However, the way the British press talks about weight, obesity and health has fluctuated markedly in recentContinue Reading
Cash crop: poppy cultivation and heroin trafficking vie with people smuggling as some of the most lucrative ways of making money in Afghanistan. EPA-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi In the frontier town of Zaranj on Afghanistan’s border with Iran, young men jostle one another as they cram into pickups that leave at regularContinue Reading
The UK government has launched a national review into the horrific abuse and murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Arthur was six years old when he was killed in Solihull by his stepmother, Emma Tustin. He had suffered months of physical and emotional torture by Tustin and her partner, Arthur’s birth father,Continue Reading
The UK government has promised to ban new houses being sold as leaseholds. K303 | Shutterstock Long leasehold is a prominent feature of the property market in England and in Wales. Homes owned under leasehold in each country number around 4.6m and 235,000 respectively. (Scotland has a completely different lawContinue Reading
The Government Chief Whip says that he does not foresee any additional Covid restrictions between now and Christmas. As the Irish Examiner reports, Jack Chambers told Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio that he does not see any restrictions being added to those already in place. He said that the GovernmentContinue Reading
A three-person team within the startup was tasked with developing top-secret tech. When a cofounder was fired, things started to fall apart.Continue Reading
Luke Pollard, the Labour and Co-operative MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has called for Conservative MPs to remove Boris Johnson as their leader and as Prime Minister. In an open letter to all Tory MPs for the South West, Luke states that Johnson’s is “unfit for office” after revelations this week suggestContinue Reading
There have been a further 4,004 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Republic, the Department of Health has said. As of Saturday morning, there were 481 patients in hospitals with the disease, with 111 of those in intensive care units. It comes after hundreds of people were turned away fromContinue Reading
BiksuTong / Shutterstock The US has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over concerns of China’s alleged human rights abuses. Predictably, Australia and the UK , members of the newly created AUKUS military alliance designed to counter China, followed suit, as has Canada. Boycotts areContinue Reading
