The British Army’s senior ranks are ‘full of middle-aged white guys but they’re not all toffs’, says top commander who also believes the military ‘should do a lot better’ at tackling racism Lieutenant General Tyrone Urch has said the top brass are ‘not all toffs’ However, he added that the army ‘should be doing a … Read more
President Donald Trump‘s private calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes have the tone of ‘two guys in a steam bath,’ according a bombshell account that portrays Trump as bending over backward to win the strongman’s approval. Putin ‘just outplays’ Trump during their one-on-one interactions, according to a CNN report published Monday by legendary Watergate … Read more
Internationally-renowned Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London will remove the statue of its slave-owning founder Sir Thomas Guy. The hospital – where Boris Johnson received treatment for coronavirus in April – revealed that the contentious statue of Sir Thomas would be removed from view following pressure from Black Lives Matter protesters. Bookseller Sir Thomas … Read more
There is a terrific scene at the movie The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s brilliant book on the financial crisis, where the director Adam McKay imagines a different ending. Instead of the Wall Street bankers who caused the crash escaping to their luxury Florida villas and yachts, the FBI arrives on the trading floors … Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed ‘rich guys’ playing the market for the up and down swings among stocks as the U.S. economy struggles to right itself in the wake of the coronavirus. ‘When the so-called ‘rich guys’ speak negatively about the market, you must always remember that some are betting big against it, and … Read more
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