Peter O’Toole is the style icon, not Harry Styles October 20, 2022 As a society obsessed with novelty and hyperbole, we seem to anoint a new “style icon” on a weekly basis, more often even than we change chancellors of the exchequer. Recently we have bowed down before Harry Styles, who seems to have slept in his grandmother’s laundry basket; Tom Holland, awkward out of his Spider-Man [...]
Truss says she’s ‘committed’ to state pension triple lock October 19, 2022 Liz Truss has said she is “committed” to increasing the state pension by the rate of inflation, after Number 10 just yesterday refused to back the triple lock. Truss said during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) that “I am completely committed to the triple lock and so is the chancellor”. Truss’ spokesperson and Jeremy Hunt both refused [...]
How women are making their mark in the male-dominated crypto world October 19, 2022 Crypto AM columnist Katia Shabanova says she believes women are now tipping the balance in the male-dominated blockchain industry.
Chair of defence committee says RAF vets who train Chinese pilots should ‘lose British citizenship’ October 18, 2022 The Tory chair of the Commons defence committee has called for RAF veterans to lose their citizenship if they train Chinese pilots. Tobias Ellwood made the comments on social media this morning just days after it was reported up to 30 former pilots have been lured to Beijing with large payments. Following reports, the UK [...]
Wasps enter administration with MPs set to question rugby’s chiefs October 18, 2022 Wasps, one of English rugby’s most decorated clubs with a history dating back 155 years, has gone into administration as the Premiership yesterday lost its second team in a month. The Coventry-based side admitted last week that they were likely to be handed over to administrators within days and that came to pass on Monday [...]
Lookahead: Ad tier to distract from falling Netflix subscribers October 17, 2022 Netflix’s new ad tier could act as the perfect distraction for falling subscribers, as the streamer gears up for its third quarter results tomorrow evening, analysts said. With Netflix estimated to add one million new signups globally in the latest quarter, Cowen & Co analyst John Blackledge said that heavier focus may be placed the new ad tier [...]
Talk of studio sale sends ITV shares soaring October 17, 2022 With shares down over 40 per cent this year, ITV was lifted this afternoon following rumours that it was mulling a sale of its studio arm. According to initial reports from the Financial Times, the maker of both Coronation Street and Love Island is said to be actively reviewing whether to dump its stake in [...]
Investment fraud soars to nearly £1bn as criminals increasingly exploit social media October 17, 2022 Almost £900m has been lost to investment fraud in the past year, as police warn about the rise in the use of social media for bogus schemes. The lure of so-called ‘get rich quick’ initiatives have become “rife” during the cost of living crisis, as millions look for fix to their finanical woes. In a [...]
Kanye West snaps up free speech social media firm Parler in bid to ‘change the world’ October 17, 2022 Kanye West is set to buy right-wing social media app Parler, with the vision to “change the world” with a new free speech vision. Parler was banned by both Google and Apple in 2021 after it was used during the Capitol riots in Washington DC. It was accused of the proliferation of posts on violent political [...]
Moscow’s elite in shock as another close Putin ally suddenly dies: Gazprom ‘wonderkid’ and Kremlin insider Nikolay Petrunin is no more October 17, 2022 Rumours are flying in Moscow today as it has emerged that another one of Vladimir Putin’s close allies has suddenly dies. Nikolay Petrunin, a 46-year-old Russian multimillionaire and a close confidant of the Russian president, is no more. The official reason by authorities was that the Gazprom executive has died as a result of complications [...]