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Grant Shapps appears to misread the rail problem – blaming low passenger numbers on graffiti
Extortionate prices and the risk of catching Covid appear more likely to be the cause, rather than graffiti, which has seen 17 per cent fewer cases over the past five months.
Not everyone is as happy as Barbados to leave ‘colonial past behind’ & remove Queen as Head of State
"Barbados decides, quite reasonably, that they do not want their Head of State to be based in a palace 4,000 miles away. Cue the British and their sense of entitlement... Doesn’t this just prove Prince Harry’s point?"
Unite: Extend furlough scheme or redundancy floodgates will open
This week marks 45 days until the job retention scheme comes to an end - which is also the legal number of days' redundancy notice.
Jim Davidson says Diversity should ‘do a routine about black men mugging people’ in racist rant
"You just want to be famous don't you. You want to be all around the world. That's why you do it", he said.
Noel Gallagher refuses to wear mask, saying “if I get the virus it’s on me”
"He's unlikely to be performing Live Forever again", one person responded.
Diversity dance close to becoming most controversial TV event of the decade
The dance has now received 23,308 complaints - close to the 25,237 received for a Celebrity Big Brother scene in 2018.
“Sexual predator” MP Charlie Elphicke jailed for two years
“The gross breach of your position of power” meant an immediate custody sentence was required, the judge said.
Londongrad’s family feuds stretch the limits of British courts
The high-profile legal battles which many Russian émigrés have fought in British courtrooms have laid bare the difficulties which UK courts have in enforcing verdicts.
Leaked email shows chief scientific adviser was ‘told off’ for lockdown plea
It is widely believed that the lockdown delay could have cost thousands of lives.