Three months after Gal Gadot and other celebs caught backlash for their video singing Imagine, another group of white celebs are facing backlash for another PSA. Confluential Content, a production company that produces OWN’s Black Love and Sony’s The Perfect Guy, teamed up with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for … Read more
The choice of Richard Hughes as next chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility will be a critical one for the Boris Johnson era. Covid-19 had turned Britain’s budgetary verities on their head. In wartime, extraordinary levels of borrowing and debt are acceptable, as predecessor Robert Chote intelligently pointed out in Commons testimony at the … Read more
A Russian ex-spy charged with downing the passenger jet MH17 has said he feels a ‘moral responsibility’ for the disaster. Igor Girkin is one of four people accused of murder over the missile shot in July 2014 which killed all 298 people on the Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine. Girkin was a commander of separatist … Read more
Donald Trump refuses to take responsibility for spike in people ingesting disinfectant and says he ‘can’t imagine why’ there was an increase after he spoke about using it as a coronavirus treatment Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said his state was flooded with calls to emergency hotlines from people asking about disinfectants after Trump’s comment Monday … Read more
Trump refuses to take responsibility for spike in people ingesting disinfectant and says he ‘can’t imagine why’ there was an increase after he spoke about using it as a coronavirus treatment Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said his state was flooded with calls to emergency hotlines from people asking about disinfectants after Trump’s comment Monday Trump … Read more
Dominic Raab took charge of Britain’s battle against coronavirus on Tuesday as acting Prime Minister – but was warned just to ‘hold on to the steering wheel’. Mr Raab, who is First Secretary of State, was asked to deputise for Boris Johnson after he was moved into intensive care. He has been handed a raft … Read more