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Font Size Uh-oh. There’s another right-wing Republican trying to disenfranchise minorities and suck up to “social conservatives.” He’s the British Prime Minister. That’s the bizarre view from CNN anyway. Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday announced the priorities of the government in an annual speech. According to the Queen, “Legislation will be introduced to ensure the integrity of elections.”  According to CNN, “The new legislation would require voters to show identification to cast their ballots at a polling station.” Of course, CNN senior producer Why, then, is J...

Queen Elizabeth II opens UK Parliament. Hear full speech 08:55 London (CNN)Throughout his time as UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has tried to distance himself from the insinuation that he is the British equivalent of Donald Trump, a comparison that the former US President himself was keen to make. But one of Johnson's most recent policy proposals has undeniable echoes of what became the cornerstone of Trump's claim that he was the legitimate victor of the 2020 presidential election. On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth set out the Johnson government's legislative agenda for the coming year in what i...

Rachael Burford, LDRS Published: 6:45 PM May 5, 2021    Royal London in Whitechapel is one of the hospitals run by Barts Health NHS Trust. - Credit: Mike Brooke The number of Covid patients in intensive care at London’s largest health trust is in single figures for the first time since the deadly second wave swept through the capital. As of 8am on Friday morning (April 30), Barts Health NHS Trust had seven Covid patients in critical care beds or on enhanced levels of oxygen, a spokesperson said. Across its five hospitals in east London, 38 inpatients have received a positive virus test. ...

Row Over £500M London Development Highlights Tensions Between Investment And Human Rights An image of one of the new buildings in the Chinese embassy complex at Royal Mint Court At the end of the first Opium War in 1842, the victorious British forced the Chinese to pay 6 million silver dollars in return for opium that had been seized as China tried to rid the country of unwanted British influence. Those small, silver coins were shipped back to Britain, transported to the site of the Royal Mint on the eastern edge of the City of London, smelted and t...

Number of Covid patients in intensive care at Barts Health Trust falls below 10 Rachael Burford The number of Covid patients in intensive care at London's largest health trust is in single figures for the first time since the deadly second wave swept through the capital. As of 8am this morning Barts Health Trust had seven Covid patients in critical care beds or on enhanced levels of oxygen, a spokesman said. Across its five hospitals in east London 38 inpatients have received a positive virus test and just one was diagnosed in the last 24 hours. At the height of the second wav...