Left-wing Remainers force gay pride festival to cancel its virtual event – because its organiser is a Tory-backing Brexiteer Labour adviser Linda Riley objected to Virtual Pride 2020 organiser Charlie Shakespeare being right-wing so would rather have the event cancelled Linda Riley, the publisher of DIVA magazine, was appointed as an LGBT+ adviser by Jeremy Corbyn … Read more
Sir James Dyson has been named top of the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time with a £16.2billion fortune. The Brexit-backing entrepreneur saw his wealth grow by £3.6billion over the past year, while Britain’s wealthiest saw £54billion wiped of their fortunes in two months due to coronavirus. In February, it was expected the … Read more
Brexit trade talks stalled today as the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned the bloc will not ‘bargain away our values for the benefit of the British economy’. The third round of negotiations has now concluded but the chances of a deal by the end of the year appear to be slipping after each side … Read more
Emma Thompson left new life in Venice after just four days and flew back to isolated home in Scotland when Italy’s lockdown took hold The actress moved to her Scotland home days after getting Italian citizenship She had said she felt European and moving to Venice was her dream after Brexit Emma Thompson has stayed … Read more
Britain will begin formal negotiations with the US on a trade deal next week via video conference after Boris Johnson promises to ‘drive a hard bargain’ International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will begin the talks by video conference More than 100 negotiators will be involved in the first round of negotiations These talks will be … Read more
Premier League and FA ‘in dispute’ over number of foreign and homegrown players allowed in first-team squads… as English football prepares for life post-Brexit Premier League and FA are at a crossroads in discussions for life post-Brexit The two are building a framework for foreign and homegrown players for future Overseas players will need to … Read more
Top Tories have joined calls to ban Dominic Cummings from coronavirus scientific briefings. The former Brexit secretary David Davis is among those pushing for Cummings and Ben Warner, an adviser who ran the Tories’ private election computer model, to be prevented from attending future meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). Davis said that … Read more
The Prime Minister’s adviser Dominic Cummings is a member of the secretive scientific group that steered the Government’s response to coronavirus, it has been revealed. Mr Cummings’ name was on a leaked list of members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) as far back as February. The list, which was seen by The Guardian, … Read more
Where I live and write in Bath, heavy traffic shakes my building. Family, work deadlines, my bank account and, yes, Brexit all conspire to make me feel hemmed in. ‘The essential test of freedom asks how far in any direction we can move from where we now sit without deviating or meeting obstacles,’ wrote the … Read more