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Grenfell survivors criticise ‘out of touch’ Boris Johnson

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Grenfell survivors criticise 'out of touch' Boris Johnson Families feel they have fallen down agenda amid row over inquiry panel memberGrenfell survivors have accused Boris Johnson of downgrading the government’s interest in the disaster and said he is out of touch with what they are going through.As pressure rose on the prime minister to rescind his appointment of a public inquiry panel member revealed to have links to the combustible cladding company involved in the tower’s refurbishment, community leaders said: “Grenfell families have dropped down the agenda for Downing Street.” Continue reading... Go to Source
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Media treatment of Meghan and Harry racist, say Labour candidates

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Media treatment of Meghan and Harry racist, say Labour candidates Rebecca Long-Bailey, Dawn Butler and Jess Phillips hit out at press coverage of SussexesRebecca Long-Bailey has condemned the treatment of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by the media as “intrusive and racist”, after the Queen announced plans for them to step back from royal duties.Ten days after the couple announced they planned to give up their position as senior members of the royal family and move to North America, the monarch issued a statement on Saturday night setting out a new arrangement that would allow the Sussexes “to start building a happy and peaceful new life”. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Liverpool v Manchester United: Premier League – live!

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Liverpool v Manchester United: Premier League – live! Updates from the 4.30pm GMT game at AnfieldBurnley 2-1 Leicester | Live scoreboardGet in touch! Email Simon or tweet him 5.47pm GMT59 mins: Impossible miss! Martial plays a one-two with Pereira, chests the ball down, and lashes the ball goalwards from 12 yards or so, but it flies over the bar! 5.45pm GMT57 mins: A chance for an equaliser! Fred intercepts Alexander-Arnold’s poor long throw on the halfway line and runs without any kind of challenge into Liverpool’s penalty area, where he shoots wide of the near post. “As frustrating as the whole situation was around the first disallowed goal, I take some small crumb of satisfaction from the fact that De Gea picked up an insanely unnecessary yellow card,” write...
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Labour antisemitism row: Corbyn under fire over Karie Murphy peerage nomination

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Labour antisemitism row: Corbyn under fire over Karie Murphy peerage nomination Party leader criticised over nomination amid investigation by Equality and Human Rights Commission Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised for nominating his former chief of staff Karie Murphy for a peerage while the party is still being investigated over its handling of antisemitism.Murphy’s name emerged in the Sunday Times as one of several put forward by Corbyn – together with those of his former deputy, Tom Watson, and the outgoing Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. Continue reading... Go to Source
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House of Lords may move out of London to ‘reconnect’ with public

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House of Lords may move out of London to 'reconnect' with public Tory plan a symbol of Boris Johnson’s aim to ‘level up’ rest of UK with capitalThe government is considering moving the House of Lords outside London – potentially to York – as one of a range of options to “reconnect” politics with the public, the Conservative party chairman, James Cleverly, has confirmed.Asked about the plan, which was reported in the Sunday Times, Cleverly said: “It’s one of a range of things that we are looking into. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Harry and Meghan to give up HRH titles and repay £2.4m

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Harry and Meghan to give up HRH titles and repay £2.4m Duke and Duchess of Sussex will give back taxpayers’ money spent renovating their home and drop official dutiesAnalysis: couple sought half-in half-out deal, but are ‘out’ The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will give up using their Royal Highness titles and return £2.4m to the taxpayer to cover the costs of refurbishing their Windsor home as they leave their roles as senior member of the royal family.The Queen said in a statement that this “constructive and supportive way forward” would allow the Sussexes “to start building a happy and peaceful new life”. In a rebuff to critics of her granddaughter-in-law, the Queen added that she was “particularly proud of how Meghan has so quickl...
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Comme des Garçons in row over ‘white models in cornrow wigs’

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Comme des Garçons in row over 'white models in cornrow wigs' Fashion house accused of cultural appropriation over wigs used in men’s show The fashion house Comme des Garçons has been accused of cultural appropriation after white models sported what appeared to be black hair wigs during its men’s fall/winter 2020 show. In a post on Instagram, the industry watchdog Diet Prada said the label had put “white models in cornrow wigs”. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Johnson to cabinet: shape up or I’ll sack you within weeks

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Johnson to cabinet: shape up or I’ll sack you within weeks Top ministers are warned to stay off TV with reshuffle alert part of plan by Dominic CummingsBoris Johnson is to tell cabinet ministers that they must focus all their energy on developing policies for post-Brexit Britain – or face the sack in a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle within weeks.In an extraordinary move, Johnson will tell his most senior ministers that they must concentrate on “delivery” and hard work that will help “level up” the country, rather than “touring TV studios” and trying to raise their personal profiles in the media. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Harry and Meghan to drop HRH titles and repay £2.4m

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Harry and Meghan to drop HRH titles and repay £2.4m Duke and Duchess of Sussex will give back taxpayers’ money spent renovating their home and drop official dutiesAnalysis: couple sought half-in half-out deal, but are ‘out’The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will give up using their Royal Highness titles and return £2.4m to the taxpayer to cover the costs of refurbishing their Windsor home as they leave their roles as senior member of the royal family.The Queen said last night in a statement that this “constructive and supportive way forward” would allow the Sussexes “to start building a happy and peaceful new life”. In a rebuff to critics of her granddaughter-in-law, the Queen added that she was “particularly proud of how Megha...
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Jess Phillips claims Labour leadership rivals ‘kept quiet’ on antisemitism

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Jess Phillips claims Labour leadership rivals ‘kept quiet’ on antisemitism Birmingham MP’s accusations force other contenders to defend their records during hustings for leadershipJess Phillips has accused her rivals in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn of “keeping quiet” about antisemitism, as the party’s failure to root out racism in its own ranks triggered heated exchanges at the first leadership hustings.For the first 40 minutes, the five surviving contenders engaged in civilised debate and avoided any personal criticism of one another, broadly agreeing on the shortcomings of the last election manifesto and the need to end factionalism. But, after the panel was asked about antisemitism, Phillips’s remarks changed the mood . Continue reading... Go to ...
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No screening for new Sars-like virus at UK airports – yet

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No screening for new Sars-like virus at UK airports – yet Experts decide no need for checks as member of Coronavirus family infects up to 1,700 in ChinaHealth officials have ruled out introducing screening for passengers at UK airports, despite mounting fears over a deadly new virus from China. Three big US airports yesterday announced they would introduce screening. Related: Expert questions effectiveness of coronavirus airport screening Continue reading... Go to Source
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Police fire teargas as gilets jaunes protests return to Paris

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Police fire teargas as gilets jaunes protests return to Paris Clashes come on 45th day of strike with 59 arrests and claims police beat protesterFrench police fired teargas under a rain of projectiles, used stun grenades and arrested dozens of people on Saturday as thousands of “yellow vest” anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris.Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing the police, the president, Emmanuel Macron, and his pension reforms that have triggered the longest French transport strike in decades. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Jan182020 by adminNo Comments

Long-Bailey: we must become ‘salespeople for socialism’

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Long-Bailey: we must become 'salespeople for socialism' Labour leadership candidates set out priorities at first hustings event of campaignLabour leadership hustings - liveLabour activists must become “salespeople for socialism”, Rebecca Long-Bailey has said as the party’s leadership candidates clashed in their first hustings event of the campaign.Long-Bailey, a frontrunner who is backed by allies of Jeremy Corbyn, said she was kept awake at night by the problems of inequality and the climate crisis but also the question of how to present socialism as mainstream. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Lecturer says she faced online abuse after Question Time clash with Laurence Fox

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Lecturer says she faced online abuse after Question Time clash with Laurence Fox Rachel Boyle described actor as a ‘white privileged male’ in row over media coverage of Duchess of SussexA mixed-race university lecturer accused of being racist by the white actor Laurence Fox has been bombarded with hate messages via social media, she has told the Observer.Rachel Boyle, a researcher on race and ethnicity at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, clashed with Fox during a television discussion about press coverage of the Duchess of Sussex. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Revealed: clandestine actions of mercenaries during Thatcher years

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Revealed: clandestine actions of mercenaries during Thatcher years Keenie Meenie Services was active from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua – and Foreign Office could not rein it in, book claimsA British mercenary company established by former SAS veterans conducted clandestine and highly controversial operations around the world, with successive British governments either unwilling or unable to rein it in, a new book reveals.Keenie Meenie Services (KMS) was one of Britain’s first mercenary companies, believed to have taken its name from Arabic slang for “undercover”. It was set up in the 1970s and recruited veterans battle-hardened by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Operation Storm in Oman – when Anglo Omani forces quashed an uprising – and the 1980 siege o...
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Meghan gets twice as many negative headlines as positive, analysis finds

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Meghan gets twice as many negative headlines as positive, analysis finds Guardian analysis appears to support claim Duchess of Sussex receives more critical treatment than Duchess of CambridgeThe Duchess of Sussex gets more than twice as many negative headlines as positive ones, according to Guardian analysis of articles published between May 2018 and mid January 2019.The analysis – which appears to support Meghan’s argument that she has faced highly critical treatment in the British press – found that of the 843 articles in 14 print newspapers since mid-May 2018, 43% were negative. Just 20% of the articles were positive, with the remaining 36% remaining neutral. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Iran to send crashed plane’s flight recorders abroad for analysis

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Iran to send crashed plane's flight recorders abroad for analysis Black boxes will first be sent to Ukraine after Tehran relented under pressure from KyivIran will send the black box flight recorders from the passenger jet it accidentally shot down abroad for analysis, a senior investigator has said.The recorders will first be sent to Ukraine, the plane’s home base, where French, Canadian and US experts will help examine them, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Sajid Javid: no alignment on EU regulations after Brexit

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Sajid Javid: no alignment on EU regulations after Brexit Chancellor’s comments represent ‘death knell for frictionless trade’, experts warnThe chancellor, Sajid Javid, has warned that there will be no alignment with EU regulations once Britain’s exit from the European Union is made official.In what is being seen as an opening salvo in the next stage of negotiations, he said the Treasury would not lend support to manufacturers that favour EU rules as the sector has had three years to prepare for Britain’s transition. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Schools ‘converting toilet blocks into isolation booths’

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Schools 'converting toilet blocks into isolation booths' Children’s commissioner describes ‘horror stories’ of children put in isolationSchools are converting toilet blocks and classrooms to build isolation booths to accommodate “disruptive” children, the children’s commissioner has said, as campaigners warn that excessive use of the practice could be putting young people’s mental health at risk.Anne Longfield said she had heard “horror stories” about children’s experiences in isolation booths – spaces in which pupils sit in silence for hours as punishment for breaking school rules and disruptive behaviour. Continue reading... Go to Source
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