GB News host Andrew Pierce has been left fuming at the takeover of Royal Mail and claimed that it "should remain British. Source link
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FBI ‘didn’t investigate Prince Andrew’s links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein because he’s a royal’, lawyer for billionaire sex offender’s victims claims in new US documentary
FBI ‘didn’t investigate Prince Andrew’s links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein because he’s a royal’, lawyer for billionaire sex offender’s victims claims in new US documentary FBI didn’t investigate Prince Andrew as he was royal, Epstein victims’ lawyer says By Oliver Price Published: 17:19 EDT, 20 August 2023 | Updated: 17:21 …
Read More »Indian-origin employee wins massive Royal Mail compensation after lengthy bullying claim
Accusations were levelled against The Royal Mail of “destroying” the life of an employee named Kam Jhuti, who suffered lengthy bullying when she highlighted potential fraud done by her boss Mike Widmer, who even harassed the media specialist. An official remedy decision added to the long-running case this week read: …
Read More »The DUP’s reunited Ireland, Andrew Neil’s revenge channel, and academic espionage
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 …
Read More »UK newspaper editors call on government to protect FOI Act
Newspapers and publishers have today united to urge MPs to investigate the Government’s ‘disgraceful’ obstruction of legitimate Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. Boris Johnson has said he supports press freedom in Britain but an investigation has revealed that his Government operates a secretive taxpayer-funded ‘Clearing House’ allegedly stifling disclosure of …
Read More »After 26 years editing the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre will be bored to tears by Ofcom red tape
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 …
Read More »The Covid-19 crisis and the virtues of an active state
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”. …
Read More »Platforms as publishers, UK Covid deaths and the radical history of Essex
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 …
Read More »Google: UK competition watchdog to probe planned changes to Chrome
Google’s command of Britain’s £14billion online advertising market will be probed by the UK’s competition watchdog amid claims it is using Chrome to abuse its position as the dominant power in searches and browsing, it was revealed today. The Competition and Markets Authority has launched a blockbuster antitrust probe after publishers …
Read More »Letter of the week: The sovereignty sham
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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