Executive at League of Legends creator resigns over George Floyd post June 12, 2020 A top executive at the games giant behind the successful online multiplayer League of Legends has stepped down over a Facebook post he wrote about the death of George Floyd. Ron Johnson, who was global head of consumer products at Riot Games, posted a meme which featured the criminal history of Floyd, who was killed [...]
Ex-chancellor George Osborne quits as Evening Standard editor after three years June 12, 2020 George Osborne is to step down as editor of the Evening Standard after three years in the role, it was announced today. The former chancellor of the exchequer said: “After three wonderful years I’m stepping down at the Evening Standard to become editor-in-chief. Thanks to the team who’ve made the paper a must read and [...]
Aldi extends Deliveroo online grocery trial to London store June 12, 2020 Discount supermarket Aldi will extend its trial of delivering groceries to people’s homes via Deliveroo to include a store in Camden, London. Aldi, Britain’s fifth largest supermarket, launched a trial of the delivery model last month over eight outlets in the Midlands. It said the initial trial had gone well, and that it would therefore [...]
City welcomes move to ease post-Brexit border controls June 12, 2020 Business groups have reacted favourably to the government’s decision to u-turn on imposing full border checks on all EU goods entering the UK after the Brexit transition period ends. Border controls will now be introduced over three stages up until July 2021, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has accepting that businesses should not have [...]
‘Shameful’: Boris Johnson condemns threats to Churchill statue June 12, 2020 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was “absurd and shameful” that a statue of Winston Churchill was at risk of attack by protesters. In his strongest statement yet on a growing trend to challenge the legacies of past leaders, the PM pushed back against a wave of protests against statues of historic [...]
Coronavirus UK death toll rises by 202 June 12, 2020 Deaths in the UK from coronavirus rose by 202 today, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said. As of 9am this morning, there have been 6,434,713 tests, with 193,253 tests conducted yesterday. A total of 292,950 people have tested positive so far. As of 5pm yesterday, of those who had tested positive for [...]
Boris Johnson urges public to avoid ‘hijacked’ London protests and defends Churchill statue June 12, 2020 Boris Johnson has urged the public to stay away from Black Lives Matter protests planned in London this weekend amid fears of violence after being “hijacked by extremists”. Black Lives Matter organisers have cancelled London protests that were set to start at 1pm in Hyde Park tomorrow after right-wing groups planned to join. Today’s protest [...]
Peter Thiel’s Palantir set to file to go public ‘within weeks’ June 12, 2020 Palantir, the data analytics firm co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is said to be preparing documents to file for an initial public offering (IPO) within the next few weeks. People familiar with the matter told Reuters that Palantir has been encouraged by recent successful IPOs on Wall Street, and wants to cash in on the [...]
Britain ‘formally confirms’ it will not extend Brexit transition period June 12, 2020 Britain has “formally confirmed” to the EU that it will not extend the Brexit transition period beyond the end of this year. Making the announcement this morning, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said “the moment for extension has now passed,” following a video meeting of the EU Joint Committee. The announcement follows a call for [...]
Will hydrogen fuel the UK’s net-zero coronavirus comeback? June 12, 2020 As the UK begins to take its first cautious steps out of the lockdown that has precipitated the worst economic crisis in modern history, thoughts have inevitably begun to turn to the question of what comes next. For some, the devastation wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic gives the UK a chance to fundamentally reset its [...]