DIS GUY I tell you what. In the long annals of exploded pecuniary hopes, sought after fame, and dreams for a monster book debut, DIS GUY has to be damn near the top of the list for all time floparooskis and utter humiliation. Jake Tapper, pilloried as a mendacious clown from one end of the country...
Mayor Brandon Johnson – that’s a whole lotta nuthin’ in three words. If ever there was a less deserving, more unqualified, more ethically challenged, and intellectually and emotionally unprepared for being a dogcatcher, less mind mayor of Chicago than this pathetic excuse of a teachers’ union tool, I’ve never seen it. The one thing he...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Days after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency sent an email to the...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images The recovery process is expected to take several weeks A diver has died during preliminary operations to recover British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht from the waters off the coast of northern Sicily, local police said. The accident happened on Friday while the diver was underwater in Porticello, police...
The aim is to find someone who can act in a support role to Petchey, who has significant broadcast commitments throughout the year. “I just need to work on who that person is,” Raducanu added. Petchey will be able to devote more time to Raducanu during the grass-court season, and the work they have been...
The boss of Marks & Spencer has told customers the retailer is “working day and night” to manage the cyber attack that has forced it to temporarily shut down its online operations. Stuart Machin said he was “really sorry” for the disruption to services, but did not say when normal business would resume. M&S’s problems...
Boy, it was close. Mighty close. Thursday night at the DCBL stadium in Widnes turned into the early hours which turned into Friday breakfast time, as volunteers carried out a full recount of the 32,655 votes cast in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. Shortly after half five in the morning Nigel Farage turned up, as...
Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat Getty Images Lorde describes her upcoming album as “saying everything I needed to say about a whole lot of different stuff” Singer Lorde says collaborating with Charli XCX gave her more confidence to explore her vulnerabilities with her new music. The singer-songwriter from New Zealand is gearing up to release her...
An independent regulator should have a role in setting football ticket prices because top-flight matches are often too expensive for working class supporters to attend, an MP has claimed. Labour’s Ian Byrne, who represents Liverpool West Derby, told fellow MPs: “The reality is that prices are far too high already, especially for younger fans.” Referring...
Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing hot water or heating when their old type of electricity meter goes out of action. Energy companies have said it will be “very, very difficult” to replace all Radio Teleswitching System (RTS) meters with smart meters before the old technology is switched off on 30...
This is a book about a millennial socialist’s ridiculous adventures in left politics, and what happened when I threw all my weight behind an unlikely insurgent left-wing presidential campaign. Sounds good to a publisher, but it’s hardly reinventing the wheel. Hunter S. Thompson’s 1973 book Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 obviously beat...
Democrats have been searching for some issue with which they could get political purchase, given how adrift they have been and how their popularity has plummeted. They needed something…anything…around which they could rally their party, get their ground troops mobilized, and most importantly, get some politically powerful group or another to come to their defense. ...
“What I can’t understand is, why aren’t people rioting in the streets?” I hear this, now and then, from people of wealthy and powerful backgrounds. There is a kind of incredulity. “After all,” the subtext seems to read, “we scream bloody murder when anyone so much as threatens our tax shelters; if someone were to...
BBC Martha, pictured with two of her three children, says her life has been transformed after she changed her job to work from home Martha was struggling to sleep, losing her hair, having palpitations, suffering tinnitus and was eventually hospitalised for deep vein thrombosis. She would come home from her job, as her daughter Amelie...
Russia says it is still “working with the US” after President Trump said he was “angry” and “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin. In its first response to Trump’s criticism of the Russian president, the Kremlin tried to play down the tensions between the two leaders. “We continue working with the US side, first of all,...