This undated image released March 7, 2021 courtesy of Harpo Productions shows Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in a conversation with U.S. television host Oprah Winfrey. JOE PUGLIESE/AFP/Getty Images In a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday, Harry and Meghan described painful discussions about the colour of …
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Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionists, being old-fashioned British patriots, didn’t want to stay in the EU or even settle for a soft Brexit. They didn’t want a hard border with the Irish Republic because business demands “seamless and frictionless” trade. They certainly didn’t want anything resembling a border in the Irish …
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It is not known whether Boris Johnson is an enthusiast for Louis Althusser’s critique of Antonio Gramsci’s idea of cultural hegemony, but it looks as if he might be. The prospect of Paul Dacre, the former editor of the Daily Mail and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, becoming the next chair …
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In 2014, as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sought to take over AstraZeneca, the UK’s second largest pharmaceutical company, the British government insisted it would not intervene. David Cameron and George Osborne suggested that the bid was purely a commercial matter for shareholders and refused to apply a “public interest test”. …
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It is all very well for Twitter to ban Donald Trump after years of profiting from the millions of eyes drawn towards his frequently incendiary tweets. But the argument for making Twitter and other social media sites accountable for their content is compelling. They contend they are platforms or channels …
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Business Britain’s Prince Charles will tell businesses on Monday they must put the planet and its people first as he launches a new charter of sustainability backed by some major global companies. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Charles visits Royal Mail’s Delivery Office in Cirencester, Britain December 18, 2020. Geoff Caddick/Pool …
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We begin 2021 knowing that vaccines are our way out of this pandemic. Human ingenuity and phenomenal scientific advances make it a case of when, not if, we will return back to normal life. The cavalry is here courtesy of our vaccination programme and we have already protected more people …
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ROYAL MAIL: Royal Mail has halted deliveries to several countries as a result of their port closures and travel tie cuts with Britain following a new … Source link
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ROYAL MAIL: Royal Mail Plc said on Friday it has reached an in-principle agreement with its largest labour union, the Communication Workers Union … Source link
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Philip Collins writes that “sovereignty-obsessives” are “the sponsors of Brexit” (The Public Square, 4 December). One day after 1 January 2021, once we have left a trading partnership with the EU, they will wake up and look around. Hoping to find a free, unfettered England, they will see that Royal …
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