Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and Michael Gove are among more than 100 new puppets that will appear on satirical TV show Spitting Image. Creators have promised a Who’s Who of famous faces in puppet form, such as the Queen, Kim Kardashian and even a “Boris Baby”. The programme, which was watched by 15
Month: September 2020
For the first time in many weeks, the official measures of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak are all pointing in the wrong direction. The government says the R number in the UK is between 1.0 and 1.2, meaning it is now definitely above 1 for the first time since March. Scotland’s R could be as high
Professor Sir Martin Hairer from Imperial College London has been awarded $3m (£2.3m) from Mark Zuckerberg’s science foundation for developing equations related to stirring a cup of tea. Professor Hairer, who is a dual British-Austrian national, won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. The 44-year-old will receive his money and a trophy at a live
Downing Street is calling for “more realism” from the EU in trade negotiations but believes a post-Brexit trade deal is still possible despite a tumultuous week. Relations between Brussels and London soured dramatically as Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to back down over plans to override the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement. The EU had threatened legal
A woman who cut off her own hand with a circular saw in the hope of getting a €1m (£925,000) insurance payout has been sentenced to two years in prison. Julija Adlesic, 22, from Slovenia, plotted with her boyfriend to have her left hand severed above the wrist at their home in the capital Ljubljana
Here’s the irony: up until recently, if there was one part of the European Union which most Conservatives said they actually rather liked, it was the state aid regime. This, after all, was the one bit of the single market that Britain put most store by. Indeed, back in the 1980s when it was being
The Post Office is in talks to offload its telecoms arm and is exploring a sale of its insurance business as its new chief executive puts his stamp on the centuries-old institution. Sky News has learnt that the government-owned company has appointed bankers to oversee and auction of its telecoms division, which boasts 500,000 customers
The NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app for England and Wales will be launched on 24 September following months of delays. Businesses including pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas are being urged to ensure they have NHS QR code posters visible for customers to scan using the app and check-in. The QR codes are designed to help businesses
Celebrity video game streamer Ninja has returned to Twitch, the platform owned by Amazon, little more than a year after his high-profile move to Microsoft’s rival service Mixer. Ninja, also known as Tyler Blevins, had signed an exclusivity deal with Mixer last year after amassing more than 14.5 million followers on Twitch – but Microsoft
President Trump says he will not be extending the 20 September deadline for TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the popular video-sharing app. The sale has been forced by an executive order prohibiting US companies from engaging in any transactions with ByteDance as the US administration applies pressure on what it described as “untrusted” Chinese
In ordinary times chancellors and prime ministers would trade a limb for a monthly increase in GDP of 6.6%, but these are far from normal days and there are already signs that the post-lockdown bounce back may be losing some of its zip. The positives first. The recovery in July continues the V-shaped trajectory established
The economy remained 11.7% below its coronavirus pandemic peak in July as the UK emerges from its sharpest recession on record, official figures show The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.6% in the month as more parts of the economy awakened from the enforced hibernation of the COVID-19
Investigators say one of the dozens of fires devastating the US might have been lit deliberately. The Alameda fire started late on Tuesday morning in Ashland, a city of around 21,000 residents in southern Oregon, near the border with California. Two bodies have been found and around 600 homes have been destroyed, although more victims
Boris Johnson is facing a potential parliamentary rebellion after angering both Conservative Remainers and Brexiteers by vowing to push ahead with plans to override key elements of the Brexit withdrawal deal. Despite a demand by the EU to drop proposed legislation – and an accompanying threat of legal action from Brussels if the UK does
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged by a cross-party group of MPs to consider “targeted extensions” to the coronavirus furlough scheme. The wage subsidy scheme, which has supported millions of workers temporarily laid off because of the pandemic, is due to end on 31 October – and some fear that could mean large-scale job losses.
Hackers from China, Russia and Iran are attempting to spy on the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, according to Microsoft. The tech giant says that the same group of cyber criminals from Russia that attempted to interfere in the 2016 US election are trying to break into email accounts belonging to staff
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