Russell’s comments imply that his own contract talks with team principal Toto Wolff are being delayed by Mercedes’ conversations with the four-time champion. Verstappen refused to directly comment when he was asked on Thursday whether he would be staying with the team next year. “I don’t think we need to talk about that,” he said....
Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare BBC “Sir Wicknell”, who started out as a wages clerk for a bus firm, has become such a celebrity that his face is decorating minibus taxis A flashy tycoon in Zimbabwe has a nation entranced – some beguiled, others alarmed – by his habit of giving away cars along with...
There was no competition for word of the day at the Lions media briefing on Wednesday – “cohesion” was clearly the focus. Given how clunky these affairs have been in the recent past, and that this represented a first hit for what is a brand new side, it was fair to assume clicking quickly would...
Fielding has been one of England’s biggest areas for improvement, with six drops seeing them prematurely knocked out in T20 World Cup group stage and seven on day one of the Ashes Test alone. They took 38 catches in this series but still dropped 13 chances, giving them a 75% catch efficiency. That is up...
This is pretty big news that I really hadn’t seen anything about. I suppose with everything happening in the world right now, it got lost in the sauce. But on any other day the looming possibility of all the commuter trains running from New Jersey into New York City being just-this-close to shutting down would,...
Laura Bicker China Correspondent Watch: US and China are ready to talk tariffs – who will blink first? The US-China trade war could be letting up, with the world’s two largest economies set to begin talks in Switzerland. Top trade officials from both sides will meet on Saturday in the first high-level meeting since US...
Marcus Smith is in at 10 and as cover at 15, with Blair Kinghorn likely to miss the first two or three games because of his commitments with French club Toulouse. Elliot Daly is another who can deputise as 15. Scotland would have been hoping to get Tom Jordan picked in that utility role but...
Shiver me timbers – that didn’t take long. The Canadian elections were held on Monday, and the anointed and appointed Prime Minister, liberal Mark Carney, was able to grab the mantle of legitimacy with his win over the snake-bit conservatives and their leader, Pierre Poilievre. He is one happenin’ dude for a stuffed-shirt WEF banker....
With the British and Irish Lions squad to be announced on 8 May, this was the final round of Premiership games for contenders to press their case. Northampton’s Alex Mitchell and Gloucester’s Tomos Williams, both leading scrum-half candidates, burnished their chances with excellent showings in victory. Perhaps most intriguing, though, was Lions assistant coach Richard...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Celiwe Ndaba / Facebook Dr Celiwe Ndaba said that once she decided to refuse to pay for her husband’s lifestyle he left their marriage A young female South African doctor has sparked a nationwide conversation about a form of domestic abuse often shrouded in silence – financial abuse. In a...
I’m going to gloss over all the criticism of Trump’s tariffs from the left because, well, so few of the critiques are made in good faith. There are liberal free traders out there. Establishment economists who have consistent theories of how the economy works and actually believe what they say–yes, such people DO exist, even...
The right-wing talking point that Black poverty is the result, not of historic injustice, but of “Black culture” — and particularly the effect of Great Society welfare programs on Black culture — dates almost as far back as the Great Society itself. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, among other things a major early figure of neoconservatism, in...
While the Scottish game has been reasonably stable in its set up for more than a decade, the same cannot be said about European football. Recent developments have led to more games in the Champions League and Europa League, plus the addition of the Conference League. That has further crowded the fixture calendar and put...
4,739 days. Harlequins’ wait for an away win over London rivals Saracens has been a long one, going back to March 2012 and a showpiece game under the Wembley arch. In the shining surrounds of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, it seemed like Quins’ losing streak at the neighbours might stretch even longer. Saracens, who included England...