Warnings from envoys that David Frost must compromise with EU on border checks as risk to Good Friday agreement ‘will not be welcomed by the US’ Senior US embassy diplomats in London, backed by the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, have directly warned the UK’s Brexit negotiator, Lord Frost, […]
Year: 2021
Open-source investigations report that the agents shadowed Dmitry Bykov, who fell severely ill with similar symptoms in 2019 Russian agents who had tailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his poisoning also shadowed a journalist who had earlier fallen severely ill with similar symptoms, according to the investigative organisation Bellingcat. Dmitry […]
Announcement by 150 Oxford lecturers accuses college of ‘undermining’ efforts of university to eradicate racism About 150 Oxford lecturers have announced they will refuse to teach students at Oriel College over its contentious decision not to remove a statue of the imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The college was accused of “institutional […]
Guardian understands chancellor not fixated on 21 June date for enacting final stage of roadmap Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Rishi Sunak is willing to accept a delay of up to four weeks to the final stage of England’s reopening roadmap, the Guardian understands, as the […]
UK considering unilaterally extending grace periods under Northern Ireland protocol The row between the UK and the EU over checks on sausages and other chilled foods sent from Britain to Northern Ireland has deepened, with the Brexit minister telling Brussels that trade war threats will not wash with voters. As […]
Legislation shows deeply divided parties are united on confronting China in the ‘race for technologies of the future’ The US Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill to boost American semiconductor production and the development of artificial intelligence and other technology in the face of growing international competition, most notably from […]
Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the closest any spacecraft has come to the moon since 2000 Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has provided the first closeups of Jupiter’s largest moon in two decades. Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede on Monday, passing within 645 miles (1,038km). The last time a spacecraft […]
Gavin Williamson had earlier called the move by postgraduates at Magdalen College ‘absurd’ The president of Magdalen College, Oxford, has strongly defended her graduate students’ right to remove a photograph of the Queen from their common room after the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, called the move “absurd”. Members of the […]
Labour leader among those affected by changes, which will increase the number of English constituencies at the expense of Scotland and Wales Electoral officials have announced plans for the biggest shake-up of parliamentary constituencies in England in decades, one that critics immediately warned would break up many recognisable communities because […]
Lawyer pushed officials on the call to investigate baseless allegations about Trump’s rival, CNN reported Newly revealed audio from a 2019 phone call has shown how Rudy Giuliani pressured Ukrainian officials to investigate baseless allegations about Joe Biden, CNN reported on Monday. In the call Giuliani, then working as a […]