Russia Is Leaking Data Like a Sieve
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.Continue Reading
2022-04-13
20 Audiobooks You Should Listen to Right Now
With A-list actors narrating and a host of new productions of old favorites, it’s a great time to get into audiobooks. Here are some of the best around.Continue Reading
2022-04-13
Ukraine: the battle for Donbas will be protracted and bloody – military expert
There will be no peace deals, no ceasefires and no surrenders in Ukraine. The next two months will bring what US defence officials have called “a knife fight” in the area the Ukrainian army call “The Joint Forces Operation” (JFO). We know this region better as Donbas. For eight yearsContinue Reading
2022-04-13
Ukraine war: ‘vranyo’ – Russian for when you lie and everyone knows it, but you don’t care
The bloody and terrible war in Ukraine has been accompanied by a war of words. One of the more frequent words heard in the Russian media is vranyo, which means a “lie”. The Russian government and media have hurled it at Ukraine and its allies, accusing them of exaggerating theContinue Reading
2022-04-13
Boris Johnson fined by police over partygate – what happens next?
After months of dodging the issue, it appears that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did in fact break his own emergency laws during COVID restrictions. The police have fined Johnson, his wife Carrie and – in a new twist to the story – Chancellor Rishi Sunak in relation to theContinue Reading
2022-04-12
Gardaí investigate if Sligo man met attacker online as murder probe launched
Updated 7.55pm Gardaí are investigating if a Sligo man whose body was found badly mutilated in his home had met his attacker online, as a murder investigation officially opened this evening. Businessman and Fine Gael activist Aidan Moffitt is believed to have died violently after gardaí discovered his body inContinue Reading
2022-04-12
Rishi Sunak: Britain’s poorest have little privacy over their financial affairs – the chancellor shouldn’t either
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has asked the prime minister’s independent adviser to look into whether he properly declared his ministerial interests, after a week of headlines about his personal tax arrangements. The fast-rising politician, widely tipped as a future prime minister, must persuade voters there’s no double standard in the wayContinue Reading
2022-04-12
Commenting on the news that both Prime Minister Boris Johnson…
Commenting on the news that both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have been fined over lockdown parties, Luke Pollard MP said: “Boris Johnson lied to the House of Commons and he lied to the British people. He and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak both broke the law, havingContinue Reading
2022-04-12
Local MP condemns Plymouth Youth Service Cuts
New figures from the YMCA show that Plymouth spends just £23.10 per young person on youth services. This is a cut of 89% from the funding provided by the last Labour Government in 2010. This leaves Plymouth ranked as number 136 out of 167 local authorities in England and WalesContinue Reading
2022-04-12
French election: as Marine Le Pen makes it to second round, the left-wing vote is what troubles president Emmanuel Macron
After the first round of the 2017 presidential election in France, economist Thomas Piketty suggested that while there were four candidates on very close scores at the head of the field (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon), in reality France was divided into three political camps:Continue Reading
2022-04-12