Home Office staff to receive training on history of migration in the wake of the Windrush scandal

Home Office staff to receive ‘comprehensive’ training on the history of migration and race in the UK in the wake of the Windrush scandal Training for Home Office staff to ‘understand history of migration in this country’ Priti Patel pledged to take ‘a more compassionate approach to applications’ The Home Secretary said ‘nothing like’ the … Read more

Beefeaters guarding the Tower Of London face redundancies for the first time in 600-year history

Beefeaters guarding the Tower Of London face redundancies for the first time in their 600-year history as charity battles £100m funding deficit Charity behind the Tower of London faces a funding deficit of £100million Beefeaters, who earn £24,000 a year, could face the chop to save charity money  The former veterans live at the Tower … Read more

Black photographer shoots Vanity Fair cover for the first time in the magazine’s 107-year history

Vanity Fair’s latest issue features Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis on its cover, making her a rare Black cover star in the magazine’s 107-year history — but even more notable, the man who shot the image is the first Black photographer to shoot a cover for the publication. Dario Calmese, who has been shooting for the … Read more

Britain is gearing up to roll out ‘biggest flu vaccination programme in history’

Ministers are preparing to roll out the ‘biggest flu vaccination programme in history’, the Health Secretary promised today. Matt Hancock claimed Number 10 had procured enough jabs to vaccinate a record-breaking number of Britons on the NHS this winter. Experts have warned that a flu outbreak in the colder months could wreak havoc on the NHS, … Read more

Captain Birdseye is a now 24-year-old WOMAN – the firm’s first female mascot in 50-year history

The latest Captain Birdseye has been announced as a 24-year-old foster mother who has become the first woman to advertise Birds Eye food in the 50-year history of the mascot. Ever since Captain Birdseye first sailed into the freezers in 1967, the brand’s character has been played by a man.   Now Charlotte Carter-Dunn, 24, has … Read more

Robert Hardman: Dear Harry, check your history before making howlers about the Commonwealth

As Harry demands the Commonwealth atone for its past — apparently confusing it with the Empire — the Mail’s ROBERT HARDMAN, who has covered the organisation over many years, pens this heartfelt open letter to the Duke . . .  You were one of the best things to happen to the Commonwealth in the past … Read more

Trump says black people who want statues removed ‘need to learn’ from history or ‘go back to it’ 

Donald Trump has said that black people who want statues of slave owners and Confederate figures removing should ‘learn from the history’ or risk ‘going to go back to it sometime’. Calls to remove statues of Confederate figures and those connected to slavery have been mounting in recent weeks in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests sparked … Read more

BBC documentary reveals history of Donald Trump in tweets

No one in the world talks quite like this – and no politician has ever issued statements like it either: ‘Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it!’ That’s the unmistakeable style of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States and compulsive ‘tweeter’ … Read more