Nurses will be given MORE than the 1% pay rise after all: Many staff will get 1.7% increase amid furore over wages following pandemic heroics Many still will get a 1.7 per cent increase to their wages this year thanks to a deal previously agreed by the government The extra 0.7 per cent is the … Read more
He could have said nothing at all. In the circumstances, it would not have been surprising. The Royal Family do not normally respond to shouty potshots from the media on the basis that a) it only encourages more of the same and b) they are not politicians with an opinion on everything. This week, however, … Read more
A bi-racial high school senior, who can pass as white, was allegedly failed by his teacher after he refused to confess his ‘white dominance’ during a class at his Las Vegas charter school. William Clark received a failing grade in his Sociology of Change class after he refused to categorize and label his racial, religious … Read more
Tom Scudamore’s daughter, 14, will get to watch her father race at Cheltenham on TV from school after Boris Johnson had a word with her head teacher Margot Scudamore, 14, will be able to watch her father race on TV at school She had feared she would miss her father’s race a the Cheltenham Festival … Read more
The Queen and Prince Charles backed Prince William last night after he insisted the royals were ‘very much not a racist family’. William yesterday became the first senior Windsor to address directly the string of allegations made by Harry and Meghan in their explosive Oprah Winfrey interview. He also confirmed the depth of the rift between … Read more
A digital collage by American artist Beeple which exists only as a JPG file sold Thursday for a record $69.3 million at Christie’s, fetching more money than physical works by many better-known artists. ‘Everydays: The First 5,000 Days’ became the most expensive ever ‘non-fungible token’ (NFT) – a collectible digital asset that uses blockchain technology … Read more
More than 400,000 people in England were wrongly marked as at high risk from coronavirus because of an over-cautious algorithm. The QCovid algorithm, used to help identify who should be shielding or getting early access to vaccines, automatically put people in the high-risk pile when data was missing, health news site Pulse reported. If their … Read more
A California father-of-three was sentenced on Thursday to 212 years in federal prison for intentionally driving his ex-wife and two autistic sons off of a wharf, and drowning the children to collect on accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on them. In imposing the maximum sentence on 45-year-old Ali Elmezayen, US District Judge … Read more
Charlotte Hawkins, Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid pictured in September 2017 When Piers Morgan joined Good Morning Britain in November 2015, ITV’s weekday breakfast show was still struggling to outshine its predecessor. It consistently had lower ratings than Daybreak despite a £1.5million launch a year earlier and high-profile signings such as Susanna Reid from BBC Breakfast, averaging about … Read more
Alastair Campbell has apologised for ‘helping the anti-vaxxer cause’ after sharing a Danish story that suggested the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab can cause blood clots. The former Downing Street spin doctor shared the story on Twitter on Thursday morning to his 650,000 followers and also accused the government of hubris. ‘Not fully fluent in Danish, but this … Read more