Speaking to ITV News on Thursday, Starmer said he thought it was time to mix up the 007 franchise. “I don’t have a favourite Bond, but I think it’s time for a female Bond,” the Labour leader told ITV. Starmer had been asked if he had a favourite James Bond, …
Read More »UK transport minister adds fuel to fire by saying there will be no petrol shortage if Brits just stop queuing at petrol stations
“There’s plenty of fuel, there’s no shortage of the fuel within the country,” the minister said, as quoted by Sky News “So the most important thing is actually that people carry on as they normally would and fill up their cars when they normally would, then you won’t have queues …
Read More »Brits shocked after pub chain prints book of corrections from news outlets who made ‘untrue statements’ about founder during Covid
After the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns prohibited pubs from opening last year, JD Wetherspoon and its founder Tim Martin were accused by several news outlets of telling staff to “work for Tesco,” a supermarket company, until pubs reopened. Martin denied using that term and claimed he had merely informed …
Read More »UK govt’s plans for death of the Queen leaked, upsetting some Brits who protest Politico’s ‘bad taste’
Alex Wickham, Politico’s London Playbook editor, published the government’s ‘Operation London Bridge’ plan, revealing Downing Street’s prepared reactions from the Queen’s death to her funeral 10 days later, and was met with a mixed response. The Queen’s death will be referred to internally by the government as “D-Day,” and flags …
Read More »Putting animals before humans is disturbing, yet many Brits see Pen Farthing as a hero after he evacs cats & dogs from Kabul
While 24 staff and dependants linked to his pet rescue centre in Kabul have been left to rot on the ground, Farthing took off with 94 dogs, 74 cats and a whole lot of love from a large section of the British public that views him as some sort of …
Read More »UK government plans to launch surveillance of Brits’ shopping & exercise habits through app in fight against obesity – media
The government-backed programme, which will be incentivising those who opt for a less fattening diet and walk more is set to be launched in the next six months, The Telegraph reports. A special app is in the works and companies are being signed up to participate, suggesting it might be introduced …
Read More »The world’s great powers – like Soviets, Brits & Americans – have been chased out of Afghanistan… so why do outsiders keep trying?
The scene comes from the 2005 film, ‘The Ninth Company’, possibly the most popular film about the bloody and ill-fated Soviet war against the Mujahideen in the Central Asian nation. And yet, it’s a lesson that officials in the US Pentagon seem to have missed. Perhaps “never” is an exaggeration: …
Read More »As Freedom Day looms, the disgusting face masks will be consigned to my bin forever but 40% of Brits say they’ll keep wearing them
No doubt about it, our personal freedoms have taken a bit of a beating over the last 18 months but, hey, I get it, this coronavirus is a particularly indiscriminate and lethal virus and we have all had to pull together in a concerted effort to flatten that curve. As …
Read More »Brits face never-ending ‘woke’ culture wars as American-style divisions on way to take hold in UK, pollster warns
The long-time Republican Party operative began examining the top causes of concern among British voters, after joining the London-based Centre for Policy Studies in May. Having surveyed several thousand people, he found that Britain was increasingly being divided along ‘woke’ versus ‘non-woke’ lines, rather than by the traditional social and cultural …
Read More »‘Thuggery’ threatening public discourse? Brits divided over video of men getting handsy with Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty
Footage posted to social media on Tuesday shows two men disregarding common conceptions of personal space after spotting Whitty walking down the street. The video begins with the two individuals pressing up against the senior government adviser. One man tries to pull Whitty in for an embrace, while the other …
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