Dukedom, a John Gosden-trained ‘left-over’ from the 2021 turf season, which concluded last month, races for the first time on an all-weather course when he attempts to make it fifth time lucky and go one better in a thirteen-runner Novice Stakes over six furlongs of Chelmsford polytrack today. It’s 55Continue Reading

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The Community Waffle House CIC (Waffle) have teamed up with an orphanage in Kenya to release a charity single, adapted from Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas, in an emergency effort to raise money for the community following mass starvation in the area as a result of Covid-19.  Continue Reading

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The leaked recording of the UK prime minister’s then press secretary role-playing with colleagues in a rehearsal for an imagined press conference justifying a party held at 10 Downing Street at a time when the UK government had forbidden such gatherings among ordinary citizens is clearly a massive failure ofContinue Reading

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Afghanistan whistleblower's account of evacuation was right – trying to get my colleagues out was chaos

Evacuees from Kabul on their way to Poland via Uzbekistan. Marcin Obara / EPA-EFE The testimony of a whistleblower about the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan describes an ill-equipped, chaotic evacuation. Raphael Marshall, a former Foreign Office diplomat, suggested that out of an estimated 75,000-150,000 people who applied for evacuation underContinue Reading

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