If you can bear it, let me take you back to the Conservative Party leadership election in the summer of 2022. Last week of July. Rishi Sunak appears in a Barbour jacket with a leafy landscape in the background and talks about the “extremely valuable” green belt. He says it is unacceptable that “green belt… Read More »
A woman who was beaten unconscious by an Irish soldier told GCN she believed the attack was carried out due to “deep-rooted homophobia”. Cathal Crotty was walked free from Limerick Circuit Criminal Court after receiving a fully suspended sentence on Thursday, June 20, despite pleading guilty to unprovoked and violent assault. The incident in question… Read More »
The 15-year-old student from a “loving family” who stabbed a student in the heart asked “how bad have things gotten?” He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the judge who asked: Alfie Lewis, 15, was murdered outside a primary school in Leeds’ Horsforth area “in full view” of pupils last November. Bardia Shojaeifard, who was… Read More »
In an isolated and remote spot in the Northampton cemetery stands a small grave that stands apart from the other graves of young children tragically taken from their parents through illness or accident. A poor man’s grave, alone, at the edge of the cemetery. The tombstone bears the following message: “In loving memory/To an Unknown… Read More »
Labor is preparing options for how it could raise money through extra wealth taxes to help rebuild Britain’s public services if it wins the general election, sources have told the Guardian. Proposals being considered include increases in capital gains tax (CGT), which were first revealed by the Guardian two weeks ago and could raise £8bn.… Read More »
Motorists faced queues nearly 10 miles long clockwise around Dartford Pass on the M25 following a vehicle fire. All clockwise lanes of the M25 from junction 1a (Swanscombe) to junction 1b (A296 Princes Road, Dartford) were stopped at 10.25am. All four lanes reopened at 12:35 p.m. Queues formed around the Essex-Kent border after authorities closed… Read More »
The family of a “beautiful and kind” woman found dead in her apartment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, have said it would be “completely out of character” for her to commit suicide. Rhian Louise Wright, 31, from Blackburn, moved to Dubai in 2014. On November 13 last year, police were called to Rhian’s home after… Read More »
The BBC Question Time debate was unique in that the leading leaders were given an extended period of time (fully half an hour each) to answer questions. This allowed the audience not just to ask, but to question. Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey was under pressure to fund big spending commitments. SNP leader John Swinney… Read More »
Perhaps the most notable part of Andy Murray’s “dead leg” drama at the Queen’s Club on Wednesday was how unfazed he seemed by the whole thing. If you or I felt our right leg suddenly lose “coordination, control, and strength,” a sense of panic would understandably arise. But judging by Murray’s matter-of-fact demeanor in the… Read More »
The mother of British teenager Jay Slater says she fears her son may have been “abducted against his will” after he went missing in Tenerife. Slater, 19, disappeared on Monday morning after attending a music festival on the island. Slater’s mother, Debbie Duncan, flew to Tenerife with her eldest son, Zak, and was joined by… Read More »