Barack Obama‘s former Chief of Protocol has revealed the rather dramatic lengths the Queen’s staff go to protect her privacy – and her signature handbag. Capricia Penavic Marshall, who worked for former President Obama from 2009 to 2013, advising him on all matters of national and international diplomatic protocol, recalled to People the embarrassing moment … Read more
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo has called George Floyd’s death at the hands of Officer Derek Chauvin on Memorial Day ‘murder’, insisting the killing didn’t result because of a lack of training. In his most damning declaration about Floyd’s killing yet, Arradondo issued a statement Monday night, insisting ‘Chauvin knew what he was doing’ when … Read more
Ex-Wirecard chief arrested in Germany: Markus Braun accused of false accounting over ‘missing’ £1.7bn that may not actually exist By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:15 BST, 23 June 2020 | Updated: 23:56 BST, 23 June 2020 The former boss of scandal-hit payments giant Wirecard has been arrested as fears for the firm’s … Read more
Former chief exec is arrested over financial scandal dubbed ‘Germany’s Enron’ as payment provider Wirecard admits €1.9billion in its accounts ‘doesn’t exist’ Markus Braun, the former CEO of Wirecard, was arrested in Germany last night Braun resigned on Friday after firm said it could not find the missing €1.9billion Prosecutors claim he artificially inflated the … Read more
The UK has had at least 3.5million coronavirus cases and the virus ‘will be with us for a very long time’, Britain’s top statistics expert says. Sir Ian Diamond, the UK’s National Statistician, made the comments on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. He said that blood testing to look for antibodies that prove someone … Read more
The former head of MI6 has warned that it will take the West ‘two or three decades’ before they can build up rival companies to Huawei. Sir John Sawers, who was in charge of MI6 from 2009 up until 2014, said creating a rival company to the Chinese telecoms firm would take time and could … Read more
Don’t let bookies target addicts: NHS mental health director Claire Murdoch urges gambling firms not to use restart of football season to ‘open the floodgates of addiction Top flights English football is just days away from returning to TV screens NHS mental health director fears gambling firms will look to capitalise hugely Thousands could be set … Read more
Banking chief quits in sexism storm: UK Finance boss resigns over ‘unpleasant’ comments about financier Amanda Staveley Stephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance, quit over derogatory comments Amanda Staveley has accused Barclays’s top brass of ‘sexism and misogyny’ Transcripts of two calls made by Jones were handed to the judge as evidence Yesterday judge … Read more
EU warns it won’t accept a ‘pig in a poke’ trade deal as Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen hold summit vowing to ‘focus’ and inject ‘momentum’ into talks amid bitter standoff over fishing and following Brussels rules Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen have held summit on trade agreement UK threat to … Read more
Tom Ilube was in his 20s when a headhunter put him forward for a job at a big City firm. He was told the boss remarked: ‘Ilube, that’s an interesting name. Is he black?’ On hearing that he was, the boss exploded: ‘Don’t you know? We don’t employ black people.’ Thankfully, times have altered since … Read more