Trump puts China behind Clinton email hacks August 29, 2018 US President Donald Trump has accused China of hacking the emails of his 2016 presidential election opponent Hillary Clinton, despite an ongoing investigation into Russian involvement by US officials. "Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information [sic], got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all [...]
Northern Ireland can’t afford to wait any longer for a government August 29, 2018 Northern Ireland has taken centre-stage in Westminster over the past year. The Irish border forms a crux of the Brexit debate, and there’s also the small matter of the confidence-and-supply arrangement the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has formed to prop up the Conservative government. However, there’s an even more pressing political story over the Irish Sea [...]
From Venezuela to East Berlin, people will always choose capitalism over socialism August 29, 2018 How many people across the world in the history of humanity have fled from a capitalist country to a socialist one? There was much amusement at the height of the long miners’ strike of 1984/85. A National Union of Mineworkers official from Yorkshire, a crony of Marxist trade unionist Arthur Scargill, sought sanctuary in the Stasi-controlled [...]
October Brexit deadline dropped as negotiators eye November August 29, 2018 Senior officials in both London and Brussels have privately admitted that the October deadline for a deal on Brexit is now unlikely. Instead both sides are pinning their hopes on a November breakthrough to the deadlock that has plagued talks. It is thought an emergency European Council session is being earmarked for that month in order [...]
John McCain was a champion against pork barrel spending August 28, 2018 Millions of words have been written about US senator John McCain since his death last weekend. He has rightly been lauded as a statesman, a hero, a maverick (his own term) – but one accolade that has been missing is his role as a champion for taxpayers. Given his military background and heroism during the [...]
Voters believe Jeremy Corbyn would divide post-Brexit Britain, according to a new poll August 28, 2018 The 2017 General Election seems like a long time ago, such is the degree of political jockeying to have taken place in the intervening period – yet not even 15 months have passed since Jeremy Corbyn shocked analysts by eliminating Prime Minister Theresa May's parliamentary majority. Labour's strong showing in that election was pinned on [...]
The US sanctions against Iran could start a war in the European commercial courts August 28, 2018 The reimpositions of US sanctions against Iran may be designed to be aggressive while remaining a fair distance short of actual war, but violent battles may be about to commence in the European courts. The cause is a big difference in tone and intent between Washington and Brussels. “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be [...]
The impact of a no-deal Brexit should set off alarm bells for the City’s finance firms August 28, 2018 Last week, the government produced papers assessing the impact of a no-deal Brexit scenario on various sectors, including financial services. It is concerning for the sector that a no-deal scenario is looking increasingly likely. The Bank of England governor Mark Carney ranks this possibility as “uncomfortably high”, while foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt suggested that there [...]
Trump takes aim at Google for biased ‘leftwing media’ search results August 28, 2018 US President Donald Trump has lashed out at search giant Google in a series of tweets, accusing the site of “rigging” a feed of biased, negative news articles when searching the phrase “Trump news”. The president said most of the stories that appear when searching the site are “bad” news articles, written by the “National Left-Wing Media”. He [...]
Frustrated French energy minister quits during live radio interview August 28, 2018 Nicolas Hulot, France’s energy and environment minister, resigned suddenly this morning, saying in a radio broadcast that President Emmanuel Macron’s administration had frustrated his environmentalist efforts. The green activist and TV presenter, a vocal critic of nuclear power, said “I don’t want to lie anymore,” during a live interview public radio channel France Inter, adding [...]