Hardcore royalists didn’t even take a day off to open their presents, reacting with fury to the Alternative Christmas Message. Filmed by Channel 4 and broadcast 25 minutes after the real deal, it features actress Debra Stephenson impersonating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The team used ‘deepfake’ technology to impose …
Read More »Liverpool star Mo Salah bombarded with hate-filled replies after posting family Christmas message
Salah, 28, posted images to his social media following of more than 50 million featuring himself and his family dressed in festive attire sitting in front of a Christmas tree, adding two emojis and the hashtag #MerryChristmas. Salah’s Instagram post racked up more than 2.3 million likes while his Twitter …
Read More »Never mind the nitpickers – Britain came out on top in the £660bn Brexit trade deal, winning hands down on areas that matter most
In the aftermath of the battle for a fair Brexit trade deal, there will be plenty of argument over who came out on top, but having spent 10 years in the boiler room of the campaign to extricate Britain from its membership of the European Union, my view is that …
Read More »A ship to wreck? BoJo triumphant as Britannia leaves EU. Holes in hull are only subtle, but their consequences can be damaging
So the deal has been agreed. This was always going to happen; as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Boris Johnson was clearly bluffing about his threats towards a no-deal and inevitably, there would be an agreement. Not surprisingly, he and his government have not shied away from a …
Read More »Huge explosion wakens Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas morning (VIDEOS)
The explosion occurred at around 6:30am local time near Second Avenue, according to city police. A parked RV exploded, the city’s Office of Emergency Management told local media. Nashville PD has concluded that the explosion “appears to have been an intentional act.” Three people have reportedly been hospitalized with injuries, while …
Read More »Nashville explosion was ‘an intentional act’ – police
The explosion occurred at around 6:30am local time near Second Avenue, according to city police. It is believed to have emanated from an RV or similar vehicle. Bomb disposal units soon arrived on the scene, and as police and federal agents began an investigation, a police spokesman told reporters that …
Read More »Europe now has 25 million coronavirus cases – AFP tally
This makes the continent, representing over 50 countries, the world’s worst-affected region in terms of the quantity of registered infections. The US and Canada rank behind Europe in this measure, with 19,188,172 confirmed cases, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (15,024,469) and Asia (13,617,004). It’s not the first anti-record …
Read More »Siberia braces for close to record-breaking cold over New Year, with temperatures predicted to hit freezing -50 degrees
Earlier this year, in the height of summer, the highest-ever temperature seen above the Artic Circle was recorded, with the small town of Verkhoyansk seeing the mercury reach as high as +38. “Extremely cold weather in Siberia has not happened for a long time,” explained Roman Vilfand, the scientific director …
Read More »RT presents The WOKIES: 2020’s top virtue signalers, ENTERTAINMENT edition
It is unsurprising that the entertainment industry, which naturally attracts the intellectually vapid, the emotionally insecure and the rabidly self-absorbed, boasted some of the most egregious and aggressive virtue signaling in the history of the art form in 2020. Anyone who has ever waded through the intellectual cesspool of our …
Read More »Something fishy! Government investigation finds bacteria & banned preservatives in Russia’s festive favourite – caviar
Russia’s state quality control watchdog, Roskachestvo, issued a warning on Thursday after a survey of black sturgeon caviar on sale revealed a number of safety concerns. Out of 14 Russian brands, and one each from Armenia and Belarus, only one tin of the luxury fish roe was found to pass …
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