Starmer SACKS Rebecca Long-Bailey over actress praise tweet

Keir Starmer today effectively sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey after she praised an interview with actress Maxine Peake including an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’. The shadow education secretary posted a link to an interview in which Peake claimed that US police learned ‘neck-kneeling’ restrain techniques used on George Floyd from Israeli spies. Ms Long-Bailey sparked fury by describing the … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 149 new fatalities

Britain today announced 149 more Covid-19 deaths as the outbreak that has plagued the nation for three months continues to retreat.  Department of Health chiefs — who also recorded 1,118 more cases of the disease — say the laboratory-confirmed death toll now stands at 43,230 since the first victim was recorded at the start of March. But … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 63 new fatalities in preliminary death toll

Britain today announced 149 more Covid-19 deaths as the outbreak that has plagued the nation for three months continues to retreat.  Department of Health chiefs — who also recorded 1,118 more cases of the disease — say the laboratory-confirmed death toll now stands at 43,230 since the first victim was recorded at the start of March. But … Read more

Boris Johnson’s RAF Voyager plane takes to the air after its new £900,000 patriotic paint job

Boris Johnson’s RAF Voyager plane took off for the first time today after receiving a £900,000 red, white and blue paintjob.   The jet’s tail fin had previously been spotted inside a hangar at an airfield in Cambridgeshire, where underwent a new Brexit paint job to help the PM fly the flag for the UK when … Read more

Coronavirus: Between 1,900 and 3,200 people catching Covid-19 per day in England

Between 1,900 and 3,200 people are catching the coronavirus every day in England, according to data from King’s College London and the Office for National Statistics. The estimates are taken from King’s College’s COVID Symptom Tracker app, which predicts 1,978 people in England catching the virus, and population swab testing by the ONS which put the … Read more

Rail union warns of national strike unless 2m rule kept on trains

A rail union leader is warning of a national strike unless the Government gives ‘unequivocal assurances’ that the social distancing rules across the transport network will remain at two metres. The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said the Government’s own review into the social distancing guidance clearly states that public transport presents a high risk … Read more

One-eyed lamb with Cyclopia believed to be a demon disguising itself as a goat born in Indonesia

‘Cyclops’ lamb born with a single eye is feared as ‘a demon in disguise’ by villagers in Indonesia The lamb was born at a farm in Sumedang Regency, West Java, on Monday Villagers believed the lamb could be a reincarnation of the Islamic figure Dajjal The animal suffered from rare birth defect Cyclopia which results … Read more

Rail union warns of national strike unless two metre rule is kept on public transport 

A rail union leader is warning of a national strike unless the Government gives ‘unequivocal assurances’ that the social distancing rules across the transport network will remain at two metres. The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said the Government’s own review into the social distancing guidance clearly states that public transport presents a high risk … Read more