brexit countdown_bgCreated with Sketch. Boris Johnson shut down Parliament for five weeks today amid chaotic scenes, after humiliatingly losing his latest bid to trigger a snap election. The PM accused ‘yellow belly’ Jeremy Corbyn and Remainers of ‘conniving to delay Brexit’ – jibing that they ‘can’t hide forever’ from the …
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Royal Mint to allow savers to invest in gold without buying bullion, putting their money in a tracker fund which is traded on the stock market By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:56, 9 September 2019 | Updated: 22:41, 9 September 2019 The 1,100-year-old coin maker …
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BARROW’S South Lakes Birth Centre was given the Royal seal of approval during a visit from Princess Anne. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal paid a special visit to Furness General Hospital as part of her role as Patron to The Royal College of Midwives (RCM). Princess Anne met with …
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Without spoiling anything, a pivotal dramatic reveal crystallizes the idea that Downton Abbey isn’t just about passing the torch from generation to generation; it’s also centered around the rise of women, finally carving out a place for themselves in a world that wasn’t designed for them. In the first episode, …
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WITH his tweed jacket, pressed shirt and neatly knotted tie Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes does not have the appearance of a cinematic rebel. But there is no doubt he has written the most radical movie of the year, if not the decade. 5 Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern star …
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Imperialist propaganda doesn’t get any more tender-hearted than “Downton Abbey.” The BBC series about extremely rich people in 1912 and their sweetly devoted staff of obedient servants always paid a certain amount of lip service to the inherent injustice of British aristocratic oligarchy, but not enough to make any of …
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Meghan Markle’s apparent desire to keep her latest trip New York ‘low key’ and ‘under the radar’ seems to have been forgotten when she arrived at the US Open – at least when it came to her appearance on the big screen inside the stadium. The 38-year-old Duchess of Sussex, …
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A teenager who could spend her life in a wheelchair due to medical negligence when she was born at Hull Royal Infirmary has been awarded an £850,000 payout. The girl was born in the early Noughties suffering a displaced left hip but would have probably made a full recovery if …
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The country’s most rare 50p coins have just entered circulation. And Brits are being told to keep their eagle eyes out for the fifty pence pieces – because, if you land yourself one, you could end up thousands richer. The Royal Mint has this week released its latest Peter Rabbit …
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Welcome back to our weekly round-up of the long reads on the web that are worth the investment. If you want to make sure you don’t miss future Global Comment content, don’t forget to sign up to our newsletter right at the bottom of this post. Before we start, don’t …
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