Goldi can make Super use of his light weight June 7, 2024 FAVOURITE backers will be in their element, weather permitting, on the Sha Tin card, with a number of gallopers likely to go off at very short odds. The John Size-trained winning debutant The Winnabe, looks to have a virtual penalty-kick in the Pok Fu Lam Public Riding School Handicap (10.30am) over six furlongs, while Purton’s [...]
Sunak under pressure after admitting ‘it was a mistake’ to leave D-Day events early June 7, 2024 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under severe pressure after he was forced into an apology this morning, for leaving D-Day commemorations early yesterday. The prime minister said sorry for quitting the events in France in order to conduct a television interview yesterday, calling it “a mistake”. The occupant of number 10 was widely criticised by [...]
Exclusive: Labour invites developers to work in ‘lock step’ on house building June 7, 2024 Labour has invited businesses to work in “lock step” with the party to deliver 1.5m new homes over the next five years.
Extreme E to return to Britain with Scotland leg June 6, 2024 Electric racing series Extreme E will return to Great Britain this season as the off-road motorsport heads to Scotland. The Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway will host rounds three and four of Extreme E’s fourth season next month. The coal mine is set to become a pumped storage hydropower plant and wind [...]
Profit of top US law firms in London have dropped below £1bn amid M&A slowdown June 6, 2024 Profits at the top US law firms in London have fallen below £1bn as the downturn in the M&A market is starting to have its effects
Robinhood UK chief: Our Gamestop customers have ‘matured’ June 6, 2024 Robinhood's UK chief Jordan Sinclair says the company has been through a period of "growing up".
The Tiktok election: Can memes really move the polls? June 6, 2024 Labour and the Conservatives have been throwing their best memes at each other, but will Tiktok actually sway the election?
Remembering D-Day is an exercise in not forgetting Ukraine June 6, 2024 It has become something of a cottage industry in academia, and polite society, to denigrate the achievements of the past. And national myth-making deserves scrutiny, for it forces us to confront the bad old days of the past, too, in order to create a better future. One war, however, has mostly avoided the too-clever-by-half revisionism [...]
Social media giants in the spotlight as parties throw money at online ads June 5, 2024 Social media companies’ political advertising policies are likely to come under increasing scrutiny as UK political parties throw more money at online ads in the run up to the election, Jess Jones writes
My generation must never forget the sacrifice D-Day heroes made for our freedom June 5, 2024 80 years on from D-Day, memories of the allied re-invasion of Normandy are fading and a mood of national pessimism downplays its success. It’s time for that to change, argues William Atkinson For my generation of young people, D-Day’s importance and the scale of the heroism involved can pass us by. Only 48 per cent [...]