Global crypto community sends $4.68bn to scam accounts in a year September 1, 2021 A new report has revealed that the global crypto community lost $4.68bn (£3.4bn) to scams last year with Western Europeans hit hardest. Crypto holders in West Europe sent $1.4bn worth of crypto to illicit addresses last year, more than any other region, with $1.1bn of assets being sent to scam accounts according to Chainalysis. Kim [...]
North Sea oil investment drops to lowest level in 50 years September 1, 2021 Investment into the North Sea oil industry fell to its lowest level in almost 50 years as the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent collapse in oil prices spooked the sector. Oil and Gas UK’s (OGUK) annual economic report found that just £3.7bn was invested into the continental shelf in 2020, the lowest in real terms since [...]
Shadow Foreign Office minister: Failure to evacuate thousands of eligible Afghans ‘unforgivable’ August 30, 2021 Shadow Foreign Office minister Stephen Kinnock accused the Government this morning of an “unforgivable” failure to evacuate thousands of eligible Afghans. “Government ministers have had 18 months to prepare for this. The French government started evacuating its people in May so it is utterly unforgivable that we have left so many behind,” the shadow minister [...]
Space race: The ambitions, plans and delays of launching superpowers August 26, 2021 Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, following its landmark human flight last month, has launched an uncrewed mission of NASAs future moon landing technology today. The flight, known as NS-17 or New Shepard 17, set off from a Blue Origin site in West Texas. The NASA payload on board is to test technologies including a Doppler Lidar [...]
City Pages Review: The legacy of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s bizarre bond August 25, 2021 Since the curtains came down on 2019, many of us have spent more time inside our homes than we had ever imagined. The pandemic has thrown up political and social change rarely seen in peacetime, but living through and talking about Covid has consumed incredible amounts of oxygen, often to the exclusion of other worthy [...]
Merkel urges Putin to free Navalny during her final visit to Moscow August 21, 2021 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has used her final official visit to Russia to tell President Vladimir Putin to free Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, but the Kremlin leader rebuffed her, saying the jailing was unrelated to politics. Watch the full report.
US to investigate fresh Havana syndrome cases at embassy in Berlin August 20, 2021 The US has launched an investigation after several employees at its embassy in Berlin began experiencing symptoms similar to that of the mysterious “Havana syndrome”. An increasing number of US diplomats and CIA spies have been struck by Havana syndrome, which has been theorised to be a result of microwave pulse weapons. Two US officials [...]
Lamborghini delivers record-breaking Urus SUV to London August 20, 2021 Having left the Sant’Agata production line last month, Lamborghini London dealership H.R. Owen has just delivered the 15,000th Urus SUV.
British sales rep a LinkedIn sensation after leaving £100k job to become postman August 18, 2021 A Briton who went viral on LinkedIn after swapping a high-paying career to become a postman has said “Covid has made people value the simple things in life”. Phil Goddard, 56, from Orwell in Cambridgeshire, left behind decades in sales and account management after going through furlough and redundancy in 2020. In September last year [...]
Editorial: America First vs Global Britain August 18, 2021 On Tuesday night Joe Biden shirked the blame from the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The speed of the Taliban’s takeover was unexpected, the President said – a sole admission of any miscalculation. Biden took the reins of a Trump-era decision and mangled it into a foreign policy catastrophe for the US and [...]