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Speaker Pelosi says there’s “no chance” of US-UK trade deal if Brexit undermines Good Friday Agreement
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said there would be “no chance” of US-UK trade deal if Brexit undermines Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement in any way. Speaking at a London School of Economics event the American politician underlined the importance of the so-called “Irish backstop” which ensures the Irish border remains open whatever the outcome of the UK and the EU’s future relationship negotiations. Cross-border cooperation was one of the main agreements included in the Good Friday talks. Frictionless movement was part...
Climate change protests continue as over 100 arrested in London: full pictures
Waterloo bridge is once again plagued by climate change protesters
LATEST UPDATE: Shocking self harm reported as police called to protests at scandal-hit G4S detention centre
UPDATE 17/04/19: In good news, two of the detainees, including the young Italian father quoted below were bailed today, with the judge in one case expressing dismay at the length of time they had been held in detention designed to be for people about to be removed. The 19 year old who has been detained for 18 and a half months has just told The London Economic that he had seen a doctor at last today. He had swallowed a...
The modern human’s face was shaped by the need for good social skills
It's extraordinarily expressive features boosted our early ancestors' ability to communicate
Sliver of space rock as thin as a human hair ‘may hold key to formation of Solar System’
Billions of years old, it was discovered encased inside a meteorite that fell to Earth in Antarctica
Youth vote could topple Tories at the next election – with Boris Johnson’s seat most at risk
Boris Johnson is at risk of losing his seat in the next general election amid a surge of younger voters. Research by centre-Right think-tank Onward found that constituencies with ratios above 1:1 voters aged 20-39 for 60 pluses were likely to be won by parties other than the Tories, potentially costing them a fourth term at the next election. Some Conservative seats have ratios far higher than the tipping point, suggesting they are vulnerable, the report says. Those include the...
Extinction Rebellion brings London and other global cities to standstill with festival of protest
The disruption is to be the UK element of what organisers hope will be an international movement to protest against environmental and ecological des
These are the top 40 slang words for ‘money’
‘Bacon, ‘cheddar’ and ‘bread’ have emerged among the top 40 slang words Brits use for money. Phrases such as ‘dosh’, ‘notes’ ‘bob’ and ‘dough’ are also more common place now as is ‘spondulix’, ‘reddies’ and ‘buckaroos’. Others admitted they refer to their hard-earned cash as ‘loot’, while ‘lolly’, ‘bucks’, ‘Arthur Ashe’ or ‘plunder’ also made the list. Regional favourites include ‘bob’ (42 per cent) in Yorkshire, ‘tuppence’ (41 per cent) in the South West, and ‘wedge’ (39 per cent) in...
Project manager goes viral with this explanation of why Brexit has been so hard to deliver
A blog by an ex-project manager has gone viral after it perfectly explained why Brexit has been so impossible to deliver. Russ, who blogs here, used his 22 years’ experience managing projects to summarise how “politically expediency” resulted in false promises in the 2016 referendum that can never be delivered. Using the “Iron Triangle” model – price, schedule, quality- he explains how the “absolutely unbreakable rule” is that you can only have two things from the triangle and never all...