SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Theresa May paid £56,000 for speech – and she didn’t even have to leave home

Theresa May often liked to talk about ‘strong and stable’ leadership during her premiership. Well, her political currency certainly is, even though she has long since departed Downing Street. I can disclose that the former Prime Minister was paid a staggering £56,000 for a speech she gave online last month. The event was held by … Read more

Half of all active employees worked from home during lockdown

Half of all active employees worked from home during first month of the lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:16 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:16 BST, 8 July 2020 Nearly half of people in employment worked at home at some point in the first month of the lockdown, figures show. … Read more

Amazon will start listing names and addresses of merchants in effort to hold counterfeiters to task

Amazon will start publicly listing the names and addresses of third-party merchants in an effort to hold counterfeiters accountable Amazon will require merchants to list their names and addresses  The move will look to shed light on anonymous sellers and inform customers   It will augment broader moves by Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit  By James Pero … Read more

MAFS bride Natasha Spencer calls out a troll for sending her ‘sexually explicit’ comments

Married At First Sight bride Natasha Spencer calls out a VILE troll for sending her ‘sexually explicit’ comments and then telling her she should take it as a compliment By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:07 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 23:07 BST, 8 July 2020 Since rising to fame on 2020’s … Read more

United Airlines could furlough 36,000 employees by October 1 once its $5 billion COVID-19 aid ends

United Airlines could furlough 36,000 employees, or roughly 45 per cent of its workforce, by October 1 amid a drop in air travel resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.   The fall deadline marks when a restriction against enacting furloughs and layoffs in a $5 billion payroll bailout of the airline expires. Officials at United made the … Read more

Uber and Lyft overcharge riders traveling to and from non-white neighborhoods, study reveals 

Uber and Lyft charge more per mile for riders traveling to and from non-white neighborhoods, study reveals A study analyzed millions of Uber and Lyft trips in the city of Chicago Riders traveling to and from disadvantaged areas were overcharged per mile Some of the increase were merely pennies, while others were much more However, it … Read more

The Bachelorette: Timm Hanly on Angie Kent and Carlin Sterritt’s ‘weird’ split

The Bachelorette‘s Timm Hanly has addressed Angie Kent’s split from Carlin Sterritt for the first time, a week after the couple announced they’d called it quits. Timm, 28, who was left heartbroken when Angie chose Carlin instead of him during last year’s season of the Channel 10 dating show, briefly mentioned the break-up in a wide-ranging interview … Read more

Victorians hit Melbourne before six weeks lockdown for COVID-19

Melburnians have converged on the CBD under magnificent winter sunshine to farewell their lives as they know it for the next six weeks.  Beers were flowing across the city as people congregated as part of a civilised society for the last time.   For many restaurants and bars, it will be the last time they open … Read more

How to cure a bad case of quarantini face

MASK FACE HAVE I GOT IT? The cloth or disposable masks the public are wearing will undoubtedly be more comfortable than those worn in surgical settings, but as Monique Budden, 27, from Welling, South-East London, has discovered, they’re not without problems.  Monique is a receptionist at a private medical clinic and has been back at … Read more

Funding Circle vows not to take taxpayer cash for furloughed employees

No furlough at Funding Circle: Online lender vows not to take taxpayer cash to cover wages By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:16 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:16 BST, 8 July 2020 Furlough pledge: Funding Circle has vowed not to take any taxpayer cash to cover the wages of its employees Online lender … Read more