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Laurence Fox’s Reclaim party received almost as much money in donations as the Liberal Democrats in the first quarter of 2021, official figures have shown, all of it coming from a Brexit-supporting investment manager. The actor and controversial political activist and lockdown sceptic, who finished sixth in last month’s London mayoral elections, received £1,153,300 in donations, the Electoral Commission said, just below the Lib Dems’ £1,278,073....

Eddie the Eagle has been unveiled as Rubber Chicken on The Masked Dancer, leaving viewers and the judges totally shocked after the tense dance-off with Frog

Tea Obreht knew as a child she would become a writer.

Although the job is an increasingly demanding one that has changed dramatically over the years, many still view flight attendants as hospitality workers at ...

As drugmakers adjust to less revenue, however, it would result in eight fewer new drugs coming to the U.S. market in 10 years and up to 30 fewer new drugs over 20 years, the Congressional Budget Office said. Drugmakers say setting an upper limit on prices in the Medicare prescription-benefit program while fining companies that don’t play ball, looks more like extortion. “Under the bill, the government dictates where the negotiation starts and can impose a massive tax penalty on a company th...

British impresario Malcolm McLaren’s headstone reads, “Better a spectacular failure, than a benign success.” So it goes in life and, sometimes,

From the blog of Jan Shure at Jewish News

Only by shaking up the voting system can we hope to be rid of Conservative dominance

“It makes me very angry and bitter but it had to come.” Interview should not be used to “tear down” BBC Earlier this week former culture secretary Lord Smith of Finsbury warned that the Princess of Wales scandal should not be used by the broadcaster’s enemies to “tear down” its place in national life. While the corporation “got it badly wrong” and must be held to account, the Labour peer stressed the need for it and other public service broadcasters (PSBs) to be “sustained a...

Featuring: Noel Dorr, Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations and Former Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs John Maguire, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University College Cork and Board Member of Action from Ireland (Afri) Shona Bell, Programme Manager – Sectarianism, Corrymeela David Mitchell, Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, School of Religion, Trinity College Dublin Lisa Clark, Co-President of the International ...