Instead, in a Thursday morning statement, Russian diplomats accused the two countries of seeking only to blame Moscow, and arriving at the process with a preconceived outcome. It added that Russia agreed to trilateral consultations two years ago, hoping that these would help establish, based on hard facts, the true reasons …
Read More »UK unemployment rate highest in 3 years, number of Brits made redundant largest since 2009
The lingering coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdowns hit UK jobs particularly hard between June and August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has acknowledged. Cash-strapped businesses had to make tough decisions including slashing their workforce, which resulted in 138,000 more people being recorded as jobless than in the previous quarter, …
Read More »Biden’s speech in Ohio drowned out by Trump trolls chanting ‘four more years’ (VIDEO)
While trying to speak about the economy during a drive-in event, Biden found himself talking over Trump supporters several times. Every time he mentioned the president by name, the MAGA supporters would honk their car horns and chant things like “four more years,” “USA” and “Trump.” “Thanks for that introduction,” …
Read More »‘I feel better than I did 20 years ago’: Trump announces he’s ready to leave the hospital Monday evening
“Feeling really good!” Trump tweeted on Monday afternoon, shortly before a press conference by doctors was scheduled to brief the press on his condition, and giving the exact time he would be departing. “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” Trump added, praising the “really great …
Read More »Less than the sum of its parts: German reunification thirty years on
Thirty years ago today, on 3rd October 1990, ‘Germany’ was reborn. The division of Germany into East and West was supposed to have been permanent, following the end of the Second World War, and this division was recognised again in the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Nevertheless, just fifteen years later, the …
Read More »‘We can’t wait for another 30 years’: Azerbaijan’s president says three decade Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved ‘NOW’
In an interview with Al Jazeera, published on Saturday, Aliyev said that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) group on Nagorno-Karabakh, co-chaired by the US, France and Russia, “has been working for 28 years to mediate a solution, but to no avail.” The Azerbaijani leader stressed that a …
Read More »US political discourse is so toxic & divided that friends of 30 years no longer talk to me. The America I loved has gone forever
2020 has been one hell of a year. It included getting Brexit done, Covid-19, big-tech tyranny featuring extreme censorship by Twitter, Google, Facebook and Amazon as well as the stealth implementation of a social credit framework by Silicon Valley oligarchs as they plunder the economy under the diversionary power grab …
Read More »80 years on, we face a new, must-win ‘Battle of Britain’ to restore our freedoms
The UK will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain this coming month, but in truth there isn’t too much to celebrate at the moment about the state of the nation. “They died so we may live in freedom,” is the usual career politician’s refrain, but how …
Read More »‘He’s going full Putin’: Trump encourages ‘12 more years’ chant at RNC to make opponents go ‘crazy’…they respond by going crazy
Trump has floated the idea several times of holding the office of the presidency beyond two terms, despite the position holding exactly a two-term limit. He’s previously trolled his critics, who have called him everything from a white supremacist to an enemy of the state to traitor, with memes that …
Read More »My years in the police tell me some Islamic terrorists are likely reaching our shores in those rubber dinghies, I fear the worst
Five years ago, I was the elected police and crime commissioner for Surrey, a county in the southeast of England. I almost immediately discovered that our county’s police were being overwhelmed on an almost daily basis by illegal immigrants coming into the UK. It turned out that the reason was …
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