Amanda Craig, Charlotte Wood, David Trueba and Nicola Maye Goldberg: This week’s best new fiction

From Amanda Craig’s pacy drama to The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, David Trueba’s latest and a sinuous novel by Nicola Maye Goldberg, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson Published: 09:32 BST, 28 June 2020 | Updated: 09:32 BST, … Read more

Boris Johnson repeats threat of walking away from trade talks with Brussels

Boris Johnson says he WILL away from trade talks with Brussels as and leave EU on ‘Australia terms’ if no deal can be reached Boris Johnson told Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki UK was ‘prepared to leave’ EU Country would use ‘Australia terms’ of no bespoke deal without an agreement Angela Merkel warned UK would ‘live with consequences’ … Read more

Angela Merkel says Britain will have to ‘live with the consequences’ of fewer economic ties with EU

Angela Merkel says Britain will have to ‘live with the consequences’ of Boris Johnson’s decision to loosen economic ties with the EU as German leader hardens her Brexit stance Angela Merkel has hardened her stance on a UK-EU Brexit trade deal  Ex-UK PM Theresa May was keen on keeping close ties with the European Union … 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 paint job.   The jet’s tail fin had previously been spotted inside a hangar at an airfield in Cambridgeshire, where it underwent a new Brexit paint job to help the PM fly the flag for the … 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

American mega farms will have a devastating effect on our wildlife, writes CRAIG BENNETT 

Millions of people have campaigned to protect British bees over the past few years. It’s a subject close to our hearts. One MP told me he got more letters from constituents about bees than on any other issue – including health and education combined. Yet it’s only recently that politicians have acted to protect them. … Read more

PM drops anti-chlorinated chicken Tory MP from intelligence committee

Former environment minister Theresa Villiers is axed from intelligence committee after defying Tory whip over allowing chlorinated chicken into the UK Theresa Villiers was one of 18 Tory MPs to amend the proposed Agriculture Bill They wanted to an the importation of chlorinated chicken to the UK from the US PM Boris Johnson wanted Ms … Read more

New free-trade deal will make it easier for young Australians to work in the UK 

A new free-trade deal could make it easier for workers and young travellers from Australia to stay in the UK long-term. UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss, who is responsible for building post-Brexit economic deals, said revising the visa requirements between the two nations would be an important step to growing the … Read more

New free-trade deal will make it easier for young Australians to work in the UK 

A new free-trade deal could make it easier for workers and young travellers from Australia to stay in the UK long-term. UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss, who is responsible for building post-Brexit economic deals, said revising the visa requirements between the two nations would be an important step to growing the … Read more

Britain’s new post-Brexit passport is mocked online for being ‘black’ and ‘flimsy and poor quality’

Britain’s new blue passports have been mocked online with many claiming they are actually black, while others say the the long-awaited document is ‘flimsy’ and ‘poor quality’. Dubbed by some as a symbol of Britain’s independence from the European Union, where members have burgundy coloured passports, the new passports, based on the country’s traditional pre-EU … Read more