HARRY COLE: Shadowy assassins are trying to ‘strangle at birth’ Boris Johnson’s civil service reforms By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:15 BST, 5 July 2020 | Updated: 01:19 BST, 5 July 2020 Boris Johnson’s closest aides are paranoid that dark forces in Whitehall are trying to ‘strangle at birth’ sweeping civil … Read more
On June 17, Color Of Change along with the NAACP, ADL, Sleeping Giants, Free Press, and Common Sense Media authored an open letter asking corporations to cease advertising on Facebook for the month of July. These are the key figures behind those organizations: Rashad Robinson – Color of Change President Founded in the wake of … Read more
Critics have called on civil servants to lead by example and save Britain’s high streets by getting back to the office. City centres are facing financial ruin after officer workers were told to continue working from until next summer, despite the easing of lockdown. There are fears that such a move could spell disaster for … Read more
Dominic Cummings has vowed to take an axe to the civil service after coronavirus exposed flaws in the government machine, it was claimed today. The PM’s most senior aide is said to have told colleagues the Cabinet Office will be stripped of powers after being found wanting during the crisis, swiping: ‘A hard rain is … Read more
Photographs taken by an ‘urban explorer’ show the eerie remains of an 1850s Virginia home once owned by a Confederate colonel — which hasn’t been inhabited for several decades. Bryan Sansivero, a New York-based photographer, snapped the images of the abandoned Greek revival-style house in northern Virginia, showing an exterior being slowly reclaimed by nature and an … Read more
The last American citizen receiving a Civil War pension has died in North Carolina at the age of 90. Irene Triplett, whose father fought for the Union Army between 1863 and 1865, passed away Sunday in Wilkesboro from complications following surgery. Irene suffered from from mental disabilities and therefore qualified for federal financial support as a … Read more
Civil liberties groups have today slammed threats by health chiefs to fine Britons who do not obey the 14-day test and trace isolation rules – which have been dubbed a ‘draconian intrusion of privacy’. As he launched the government’s new test and trace system, Health Secretary Matt Hancock yesterday warned a fortnight-long quarantine for those … Read more
The extraordinary story of a British First World War captain who became an unlikely cult hero as he fought the communist Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War has come to light after his medals and photographs sold for £7,500. Captain William Richardson was flung into the conflict along with other Allied war veterans after troops … Read more
A civil servant who was called ‘racist’ by colleagues for saying it always rains in Wales amid a ‘lengthy campaign of harassment’ has been awarded £250,000 by a tribunal. Anne Giwa-Amu won her race discrimination case after being mocked for her daily ‘weather reports’, accused of stealing ice cream and criticised for complaining about the cold, … Read more
The Tory civil war over Dominic Cummings escalated again today as an MP accused his colleagues of ‘declaring no confidence’ in Boris Johnson by demanding his chief adviser quits. Devizes MP Danny Kruger accused ‘one wing’ of the party of ‘going bonkers’ and comparing the alleged lockdown breach to ‘the invasion of Suez’. But in … Read more