Many of us of a certain age will remember the Alan Partridge scene where he is pitching to a TV executive in a bid to get a new series commissioned. Getting ever more desperate, the fictional British TV presenter suggests shows such as Inner City Sumo, Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubanks, and finally, Monkey Tennis. […]
Addressing the issue of a cover-up, he said better wording was “hiding the truth”. There had been a lack of openness, inquiry, accountability and elements of “downright deception”, including destroying documents. But hiding the truth included not only deliberate concealment but telling half-truths or not telling people what they had had a right to know […]
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Evan Vucci/Associated Press Evan Vucci/Associated Press Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden’s latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that former President Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Folks, he’s coming for your health care, and […]
Not so long ago, this was the same as asking: ‘Who’s fit to run about and kick a ball?’ In recent weeks, Scotland players with injury concerns have reached double figures. Although match sharpness may be an issue for some, thankfully, most have returned in some capacity. What now appears to be certain, though, is […]
Yesterday Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, forgot one of Labour’s new six pledges in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. Sarah Jones, a shadow business minister, did not make the same mistake this morning, but in an interview with Talk TV she got the detail of one of them wrong, claiming Labour was […]
The Tainted Blood campaign group chairman, Andy Evans, who was infected with HIV and hepatitis C as a child through his haemophilia treatment, said publication of the report would be a “defining” moment after decades of campaigning. “This is where we pin our hopes, really – we don’t have anywhere else to go after this,” […]
Sixty years ago, baseball commissioner Ford Frick received a telegram from a Wisconsin congressman. Rep. Henry Reuss was worried the Milwaukee Braves would defect to Atlanta for the promise of a richer television contract, and proposed a fix: if all the Major League Baseball teams would share their television money, then the Braves might stay. […]
Mackin and White were involved in a scoring duel early on by hitting the five opening scores as Armagh led 0-3 to 0-2 after 10 minutes. Points from long-serving midfielder Caroline O’Hanlon and Kelly Mallon helped the Orchard women move 0-5 to 0-3 up but scores from the impressive Amy Boyle Carr and White enabled […]
The water company that supplies clean water and removes waste for a quarter of the UK is, quite simply, drowning in debt. When the company was privatised in 1989, it had no debt. But over the years it borrowed heavily and is currently £15.4bn in debt. A large proportion of that was added when Macquarie, […]