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Brexiteer Priti Patel says UK should threaten Ireland with no deal Brexit food shortages

Disgraced former minister Priti Patel is in hot water again today – for gleefully suggesting that the threat of food shortages in a no deal Brexit could be used to encourage Ireland to drop their insistence on a backstop to prevent a hard border across Ireland. The former Tory Minister for International Development was reacting to a government report leaked to theTimes newspaper that outlined food shortages would be worse for Ireland than the UK in a no deal Brexit....

O2 blackout: Data-reliant Brits leading “increasingly isolated” lives 

O2 customers were left in a state of frenzy yesterday following a network blackout that saw them lose access to its 4G network. BBC presenter Dan Walker tweeted that he is "currently having to talk to people and look them in the face" after the outage, which he found "very disconcerting". The data glitch occurred after new research found face-to-face conversations are becoming a thing of the past as high-tech devices lead us to live 'isolated' lifestyles. A survey of...

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