Giorno: 20 Luglio 2023

ANC boots rebel members after Mangaung by-elections victory

Read More The ANC is moving to purge its Mangaung branches of members who supported the four expelled ward councillors who stood against the party in by-elections in the Free State capital on Wednesday. The governing party is now looking to oust Democratic Alliance speaker Maryke Davies This article is for registered members and subscribers.Please […]

Extreme weather continues across Europe as further heatwave looms

Read More Hailstorms have hit northern Italy as near-record temperatures begin to ebb, but forecasters have warned of a fourth heatwave hitting southern Europe next week, with temperatures of up to 48C. More than 110 people had sustained injuries after the north-eastern Italian region of Veneto was hit on Thursday by extreme weather, including large […]

Whiter shade of pink ends Edinburgh’s long-running door dispute

Read More First it was an unacceptable pink, and then an unacceptable green. Now the owner of Edinburgh’s most famous front door has won, with a colour which can perhaps charitably be called off-white. After nearly 10 months of dispute over conservation standards in the city’s New Town, council officials have declared defeat in their […]

NatWest boss apologises to Nigel Farage over Coutts account closure row

Read More The head of NatWest has apologised to Nigel Farage for what she called “deeply inappropriate comments” about the former Ukip leader in an internal report that led to the closure of his accounts at the group’s exclusive private bank, Coutts. Dame Alison Rose issued a public statement on Thursday and wrote a letter […]

Political turmoil in 2022 cost UK taxpayer ?3m in severance fees

Read More The chaos at the heart of government last year cost the British taxpayer more than ?3m in severance fees, because of the huge turnover of ministers and advisers over the course of three prime ministerships, documents have revealed. The government spent hundreds of thousands of pounds paying off senior ministers, including the former […]

King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers

Read More King Charles III is to receive a huge pay rise from the UK taxpayer, according to government plans to boost public funding of the monarchy by 45% from 2025. Details of the increase, which comes against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis, were contained in a review of royal funding published […]

DC Judge Rejects Jan. 6 ‘Shaman’ Request to Void Plea

Using the Jan. 6 tapes aired by Tucker Carlson, the self-proclaimed “America’s Shaman” sought to have his guilty plea deal due to “newly discovered” evidence, but a federal judge rejected Jacob Chansley’s request Thursday.

Florida Rulings Appear to Favor Advocates for Various Drag Events

Librarians who feared fines for hosting drag queen story hours and Pride parade organizers who worried about citations for including drag performers were heartened byu a judge’s ruling his injunction blocking Florida’s anti-drag law extends to all state venues, an attorney…

Rep. Jordan: RFK Jr.’s Hank Aaron Post ‘Pointing Out Facts’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2021 tweet about the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron after he received a COVID-19 vaccine was just “pointing out facts,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, argued Thursday during a GOP-led hearing on government censorship by the House Judiciary…