Huge payouts in prospect for ‘robber barons’ who won bitter battle for GKN

theguardian.com Snow lay thick on the ground in Westminster as demonstrators carrying a large banner reading “Stop the GKN takeover” marched on ­parliament. It was February 2018, and,…

Both feted and gilded, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics

theguardian.com Say this for Keir Starmer: he’s lucky in his enemies. From Rebecca Long-Bailey to Liz Truss to Humza Yousaf, they flop as heavily as solo projects from lesser members of…

Bloomberg taps Wickham as UK political editor

talkingbiznews.com Bloomberg News has named Alex Wickham as its U.K. political editor. He has been its senior government reporter based in London and has been at Bloomberg the last two years.…

Podcasts ‘are the future’ of news and investigations, says News Agents’ Lewis Goodall

pressgazette.co.uk Podcasts are “the future of news” and a likely way news organisations will pursue younger audiences, according to The News Agents co-presenter Lewis Goodall. Speaking at The…

4 July election: are Tory MPs onside with the date?

theweek.com Rishi Sunak has announced the country is to go to the polls on Thursday 4 July, upending expectations of an autumn election. With Sunak having spent months "resisting those…

Drowning Street and four other memorable lectern moments

theweek.com Rishi Sunak's general election campaign got off to a damp start as he announced the date of the vote outside No. 10 as heavy rain fell. The D:Ream song "Things Can Only Get…

Buying London is grotesque TV

theguardian.com When I first arrived in London, seven years ago, I used to enjoy stopping outside estate agents’ offices and browsing the listings in the window. Though they were almost…

UK PM Sunak To Announce 'Snap' General Election On July 4th

zerohedge.com UK PM Sunak To Announce 'Snap' General Election On July 4th With polls suggesting a heavy defeat, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a snap general election will…

Large-scale nuclear power station planned for Anglesey in Wales

theguardian.com Ministers have earmarked north Wales as the site of a large-scale nuclear power plant, which is part of plans to resuscitate Britain’s nuclear power ambitions. Wylfa on…

Matt Chorley leaves The Times for BBC 5 Live

pressgazette.co.uk Matt Chorley is leaving The Times and Times Radio after more than eight years to join BBC Radio 5 Live ahead of the next general election. The news came a day after it was…

ITV Post Office drama led to ‘sea change’ in coverage of infected blood scandal

pressgazette.co.uk In 2007, while working as a junior reporter for ITV Granada, I was sent to meet a campaigner from Manchester called Peter Mossman. He was warm and funny, brave and dogged.…

‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

theguardian.com Outside a warehouse squeezed between a waste recycling plant, an auto parts outlet and a scaffolding company in Lochgelly, Fife, a blur of figures in hi-vis jackets are…

Sam Ash, iconic retailer to musicians, plays its last notes

latimes.com Sam Ash Music announced in an Instagram post that it’s closing all its stores. Kristina Bialkowski remembers the day she got her first guitar at the Sam Ash Music Store on…

Union urges Labour not to ban new North Sea licences without plan for jobs

theguardian.com The UK’s oil and gas workers risk becoming “the coal miners of our generation,” Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, has warned, urging Labour not to ban new North Sea…

Sage the miniature poodle wins top prize at Westminster Kennel Club dog show

pbs.org For a last hurrah, it was a Sage decision. A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, in what veteran handler Kaz…

The winner of the Westminster dog show the year you were born

aol.com May 15, 2024 at 10:39 AM • None The Westminster Kennel Club dog show crowned its 148th champion on May 14. • None In honor of Sage, we've found photos of some of the Best in…