by Tom Ambrose and Helena Smith in Athens on (#5RW4W)
Kyriakos Mitsotakis offers to loan Greek treasures to British Museum if ‘stolen’ sculptures are returned to AcropolisThe Greek prime minister has demanded that the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles be returned to Athens and has repeated an offer to loan some of his country’s treasures to the British Museum in an attempt to broker a deal.Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Daily Telegraph that the sculptures, also known as the Elgin marbles, belong in the Acropolis Museum at the foot of the Periclean masterpiece. Continue reading...
Pair were last of five protesters who built and occupied tunnel on site of Hs2 work in BuckinghamshireDan Hooper, the environmental activist known as Swampy, and his fellow tunneller Satchel, emerged from an underground protest against the controversial HS2 project on Saturday morning after resisting eviction for 35 days.Hooper, 48, and Satchel were the last two of five environmental protesters who built and occupied a tunnel on the site of HS2 work in Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Continue reading...
Health ministry says labourers at Covid quarantine camp in north-west province mixed substance with water and soft drinksSeven Cambodian labourers have died after drinking alcohol they were given as a disinfectant while in quarantine, having mixed it with water and soft drinks, the country’s health ministry has said.The labourers had returned from Thailand and were placed in a coronavirus quarantine camp in the north-western Banteay Meanchey province. Continue reading...
Designers hope that the outfits worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the forthcoming TV sequel will boost fashion salesIt was the show that made Manolo Blahnik a byword for achingly cool after the designer’s shoes played a starring role on Sarah Jessica Parker’s feet in the early noughties. Now fashion brands and retailers are hoping that the “Sex and the City effect” will strike again with And Just Like That, the much-anticipated sequel series.Last week, the latest image circulated of Sarah Jessica Parker wearing a pair of dungarees on the set of And Just Like That, sending newspaper fashion columnists into a frenzy. The power of the franchise means that this image alone could increase sales of the trousers. Continue reading...
Polish police say cause of death not determined after body discovered in woods near village of Wolka TerechowskaThe body of a young Syrian man has been found in a wooded area of Poland near the border with Belarus, the latest victim in a political standoff at the European Union’s eastern edge.The regime in Minsk has for months been encouraging illegal migration across the border into the EU nations of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. All three countries are reinforcing their borders, seeking to block the route, and the situation is growing more dangerous as winter approaches. Continue reading...
Police say man in his 30s detained on suspicion of murder and attempted murder after incident in west LondonA man has been arrested after a fatal stabbing in Brentford, the Metropolitan police have said.Officers were called to Albany Parade in west London at about 7.50pm on Friday and found a man, believed to be aged 20, dead at the scene. Continue reading...
From her carefree 20s and countless affairs, to literary success and later-life bigotry and rancour, the author’s extraordinary diaries reveal a woman determined to chart her own course• Extract: Patricia Highsmith on sex, women and writing Mr RipleyIn the summer of 1956, Patricia Highsmith was living in upstate New York with Doris Sanders, an advertising copywriter with whom she professed to be in love. The novelist was, at 35, worried about a mid-career slump, although this was more routine anxiety than reality. For the previous seven years, Highsmith had enjoyed a stretch of extraordinary creativity, resulting in the novels that would make her reputation – Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt (published in 1952 under a pseudonym and later republished, under her own name, as Carol), and The Talented Mr Ripley. And, after years of turbulence in her private life, she seemed, finally, to have achieved a measure of tranquillity. She and Doris bought a car. Highsmith started a vegetable garden. Improbably, she joined a church choir.A few months after moving upstate, however, she noted ominously in her diary: “The danger of living with somebody, for me, is the danger of living without one’s normal diet of passion. Things are so readily equalized, soothed, forgotten with a laugh, with perspective.” Continue reading...
Fleet of 21 trams taken out of service as network between Birmingham and Wolverhampton needs repairsTram services in the West Midlands have been suspended again due to cracks on the vehicles.The network, which runs between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, was first suspended due to cracks in June, but services were partially reinstated following repairs. Continue reading...
Poultry farmers and meat processors have struggled to cope due to Covid- and Brexit-induced staff shortages. But help may soon be at handThese are not just turkeys, these are the “Rolls-Royce of turkeys”. Landowner Robert Wynn, Lord Newborough, is gazing out over the rolling hills and green fields of his organic farm of the Rhug Estate near Corwen in north Wales, where the birds lead a suitably luxurious life, eating organic oats, beans and peas and listening to classical music.The Thanksgiving and Christmas tables of local families, upmarket London restaurants and even exclusive Hong Kong hotels depend on receiving one of his 1,300 Norfolk Bronze and Hockenhull Black birds in time for their festive meal. Continue reading...
As Ronson’s BBC podcast Things Fell Apart begins, the documentary-makers and old friends discuss conspiracy theories, the problem of ‘activist journalists’ and what happened to Ceaușescu’s socksJon Ronson and Adam Curtis became friends in the late 1990s, having bonded over their shared interests in power, society and the stories we tell about ourselves. Curtis, 66, is a Bafta-winning documentary film-maker whose credits include The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear and HyperNormalisation. His most recent six-part series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, draws on the history of psychology and politics to show how we got to where we are today. Ronson, 54, is a US-based Welsh writer and journalist whose books include 2015’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, about social media brutality and the history of public shaming. In recent years, Ronson has turned to podcasting, investigating the porn industry in The Butterfly Effect and its follow-up The Last Days of August.His forthcoming BBC podcast, Things Fell Apart, is about the roots of the culture wars and the ways the present is echoed in the past. Over eight episodes, he talks to individuals caught up in ideological conflicts, conspiracy theories and moral panics. These include Alice Moore, the wife of a fundamentalist minister and unexpected culture war instigator who campaigned to remove textbooks containing liberal material from schools, and Kelly Michaels, a daycare worker and victim of the “satanic panic” who was wrongfully imprisoned in 1988 by a New Jersey court for child abuse (the verdict was overturned in 1993). Continue reading...
Special trade arrangements are crucial to peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland. Yet Brexiteers in London refuse to see thatThere has been feverish speculation, in both Westminster and Brussels, about the British government’s possible intention to trigger article 16 of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.Make no bones about it: such a move, especially if accompanied by the unilateral suspension of elements of the Northern Ireland protocol, would throw the UK’s relations with the EU into turmoil, just at the moment when real progress is being made to facilitate its implementation.Nathalie Loiseau is an MEP and a former French minister for European affairs Continue reading...
Sue-lin Wong becomes latest foreign journalist to be forced out of the city as concerns about press access and freedoms growHong Kong has refused to renew the visa of an Australian correspondent from the Economist, the newspaper’s chief editor said, amid a crackdown on free speech and dissent in the city.Sue-lin Wong is one of several foreign journalists working in Hong Kong to be forced out in recent years. Continue reading...
ABC’s man in Washington delivers a second riveting and horrifying read about how close America came to disasterTrumpworld is in legal jeopardy. The 45th president’s phone call to Brad Raffensperger, urging the Georgia secretary of state to “find 11,780 votes”, may have birthed a grand jury.In Manhattan, the outgoing district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, has empaneled one of those, to look at Trump’s business. As a Vanity Fair headline blared, “The Trump Organization should be soiling itself right now.” Continue reading...
Peter Dennis was one of the hundreds who descended into the 43-mile underground network to save injured caver George LinnaneIt was when the text message suggested volunteers bring a sleeping bag that Dr Peter Dennis realised he might be in for what he politely refers to a “protracted operation”. But little did he know he would not return home for three nights after the longest rescue mission in Welsh history.The ecologist from Aberystwyth University had heeded the call last Saturday to join the search for an injured caver in the Brecon Beacons who had fallen a mile into the 43.5-mile (70km) “intestinal” network of Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, which translates as Cave of the Black Spring. Continue reading...
Fed up of looking at endless gloom on her phone, one writer decided to ‘joyscroll’ insteadGeorge Resch loves two things in this world: “Making people think a little bit more positively, and making them laugh.” A former fence salesman from Long Island, New York, Resch is now the creator of the wildly popular (2.5 million followers) positive news outlet Tank’s Good News, set up in September 2017 after he saw a picture of an old woman being rescued from her living room in Texas during the floods caused by Hurricane Harvey. Inspired by the image’s portrayal of “triumph in the tragedy” – she was on the back of a jet ski doing a double thumbs up – Resch, 41, began posting similar images: a young woman food shopping for an elderly couple too scared to get out of their car during peak pandemic in Oregon, or the homecoming queen who gave her crown to a recently bereaved classmate. Resch believes the appeal of his posts is simple: “It’s a hit of dopamine when you’re scrolling through doom and gloom.” Every day, he is inundated with messages from people saying he has saved their life.Speaking to Resch is an oddly emotional experience for me. Last year, Tank’s Good News became my lifeline. Desperate to find my way out of postnatal depression (PND) after the birth of my second child, I stopped reading the news, logged off social media and immersed myself in Tank’s stories of optimism. Before this, I had never been one to put up my blinkers. I thought it dangerous and foolish to ignore bad news. Like many journalists, “keeping informed” verged on compulsion, born out of professional obligation and fear of ignominy. But last summer I felt raw; fire-hosed by information and stimuli. I’d wake up feeling terrified, before indulging in a bout of doomscrolling (the excessive consumption of bad or anxiety-inducing news online). I would find myself lost in unverified stories and furious hot takes on social media, leaving me drained of energy, yet too jittery to sit still. Continue reading...
Sales of pots and applications for courses are soaring across the UK as the Leach Pottery in St Ives is discoveringFor Ellie Woods, the attraction is creating something beautiful but functional – plus the childlike joy of getting her hands grubby.“I think it’s the hands-on part of it that really appeals,” said Woods, a 25-year-old apprentice at the Leach Pottery in the Cornish town of St Ives. “I love the fact that people are going to hold and use our work; it’s so intimate, more intimate than looking at a painting or piece of sculpture.” Continue reading...
The man in his 20s and the woman in her 80s were stabbed in the street in the west London suburbA man has been killed and a woman in her 80s is in a critical condition in hospital after they were stabbed in a street in Brentford.The Metropolitan police said the man, believed to be in his 20s, and the woman, were stabbed at about 8pm on Friday in Albany Parade in Brentford. Continue reading...
Steve Smith may be the first person in the country to qualify for the euthanasia procedure. He says it’s a ‘solution’ and a ‘choice’When Steve Smith dies, he wants to be at home, in the arms of his beloved wife. He wants it to be a moment he chooses, before the aggressive tumour in his brain takes hold. He may get his wish.Smith, who was diagnosed with glioblastoma in May, might be the first New Zealander to become eligible for a medically assisted death, after the country’s End of Life Choice law came into force this week. Continue reading...
by Dan Sabbagh in London and Julian Borger in Washing on (#5RV45)
MoD says small team of military personnel deployed after agreement with Polish governmentBritain has sent a team of about 10 soldiers to Poland to help Warsaw strengthen its border with Belarus, where groups of migrants have been stranded attempting to cross into the EU.The troops arrived on Thursday and are expected to spend a few days in the country, including visiting the border at the request of the Polish government to work out if they can repair or toughen the fencing. Continue reading...
French prosecutors investigate alleged assault of female soldier by colleague after party in JulyFrench prosecutors are investigating allegations that a female soldier in Emmanuel Macron’s defence staff was raped by a serviceman colleague after a farewell party at the Élysée Palace in July.The alleged assault took place this summer after a going-away reception for a general and two others that was attended by Macron, according to French daily Libération, which first reported the accusations. Continue reading...
The exclusive property by the sea, with infinity pool, where the Tory MP stayed to conduct his lucrative side-hustleMost days, there is a cool breeze.The private villa is located above a secluded rocky bay and set among a tropical garden of palms and exotic fruit trees. Continue reading...
Global development lecturer Heather Alberro on whether rising birth rates are really to blame for the climate crisisWhether it’s Meghan and Harry limiting themselves to two children, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussing the “legitimate” concern of parenting through climate catastrophe, the ethical question of whether to add more people to the planet has touched society. But is the world overpopulated in the way we think? I asked Heather Alberro, lecturer in global sustainable development at Nottingham Trent University.Where did the idea of overpopulation come from?
Tiernan Darnton sentenced to life in prison for murdering Mary Gregory, 94, in house fire in LancashireA student has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his step-grandmother after confessing to the crime in a game of truth or dare.Tiernan Darnton, 21, who was caught after a counsellor alerted police to the confession, was told by a judge at Preston crown court that he must serve a minimum of 15 years of his sentence. Continue reading...
by Maung Moe and Rebecca Ratcliffe, South-east Asia c on (#5RTKS)
Frontier editor was accused of working for banned outlet Myanmar Now, from which he had resigned in July 2020, say colleaguesThe US journalist Danny Fenster has been sentenced to 11 years in prison with hard labour by a court in military-ruled Myanmar after he was found guilty on a series of charges including incitement.Fenster, who is the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, an independent outlet that has covered the military coup extensively, was arrested in May 2021 at Yangon International airport. He was due to fly back home to Michigan, where he planned to surprise his parents. Continue reading...
The notorious author is breaking new ground with his TV debut. He talks about messed up cops, exorcising Sick Boy … and writing the tunes for Trainspotting: The Musical‘I like the way you call me Irvine,” says Irvine Welsh to a young woman who’s just offered him a cup of tea, and pronounced his first name to rhyme with wine. “I’ve been living in Miami and it makes me feel like I’m back there.” The so-called Magic City is his happy place, “the polar opposite of Edinburgh. All people do in Scotland is fucking talk, they rabbit in each other’s faces. Miami is nothing like that. At the start, I found it so vacuous, but you can get all your stuff from Edinburgh and London, then take it away to Miami and write in peace.” The world is one long, warm bath to this man, it seems. He is “happy everywhere. All the shit comes out in the writing. In normal life, I focus on the good things: the beauty in life, romance, friendship.”The undisputed king of the 1990s, of swear words, of Scottishness, is here to talk about Crime, in which he breaks new ground with his first script for television. It’s a riveting and quite surprising move from him – it starts off looking like a classic cop show, although I’ve only been allowed to watch the first three episodes. “I know this sounds like what everybody would say, but episode four is when it really kicks off, and five and six go absolutely fucking mental.” It really doesn’t sound like what everybody would say. It’s hard to figure out what is more charming about Welsh – how much of a one-off he is, or his conviction that he’s exactly like everyone else. Continue reading...
Exclusive: leaked memo shows trade department raising concerns about environment colleagues’ draft lawEuropean trade officials have been accused of “taking a chainsaw” to a draft EU law to protect the world’s forests, as a leaked document revealed an attempt to water down the plans.The European Commission is due to unveil a proposal on Wednesday to prevent EU sales of beef, soy, cocoa and other products linked to deforestation. A leaked memo seen by the Guardian reveals that commission trade officials have raised “serious concerns” about the regulation drafted by their environment department colleagues. Continue reading...
Dutch-Portuguese war of 1645 split the Potiguara people but their leaders’ correspondence across battle lines has finally been translated from TupiIn 1645, a bloody war raged between Dutch settlers and the Portuguese empire over the sugar plantations of north-east Brazil.Trapped on either side of the conflict were the Potiguara, a powerful indigenous nation whose leaders penned a series of letters in the Tupi language, enticing their relatives to defect across enemy lines. Continue reading...
Hamaguchi’s award-winning and absorbing new movie Drive My Car deals with issues of grief and infidelity – and reflects his artistic journey towards inner truthsAfter the 2011 earthquake in Japan, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi was commissioned to make a documentary about the impact on the north-eastern Tōhuku region. He spent hours driving every day with his co-director, and realised how cars take you places in more ways than one. “The two of us aren’t really communicative with each other in general,” he says. “But in the car, we talked more than we did before. In a car, visually you’re satisfied – you’ve got information from the scenery from the windows. But sonically you only get the engine revving and that’s pretty much it. So I think we tend to want to fill that void.”This in-transit intimacy exerts its mysterious pull in Hamaguchi’s new movie, Drive My Car, which is adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami. It is about Kafuku, a widowed theatre director who reluctantly accepts a female chauffeur, Misaki, while he oversees a new production of Uncle Vanya. As his red Saab 900 winds its way to work, he listens to a cassette of his dead wife reciting lines of Chekhov, and begins to open up to his driver about his grief and her infidelity. Continue reading...
European Affairs minister says UK government is out of step with preserving peace with protocol threatsIreland’s minister for European Affairs has said that a “tough guy approach” when it comes to Northern Ireland will lead to disaster, adding that threats to suspend the Northern Ireland protocol represented the first time the UK government has been out of step with the international consensus on preserving peace and stability in Northern Ireland in 25 years.Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Thomas Byrne said there was “a serious danger of complete instability in Northern Ireland” if the UK government continues its “tough guy approach” through threats to trigger article 16, which would suspend post-Brexit trade arrangements. Continue reading...
Western delegates on UN security council call for ‘strong reaction’ from international community, but make no mention of RussiaThe United States and European delegations on the UN security council have urged action over Belarus’s behaviour on its border with Poland, describing the migrant crisis as “orchestrated” and saying Minsk was endangering migrants “for political purposes”.Poland says the government of strongman Alexander Lukashenko has lured about 2,000 migrants, mainly Kurds from the Middle East, to Belarus for the purpose of sending them across the border into Poland and thus the EU in revenge for sanctions. Continue reading...
The alt-rockers brought gender fluidity into the 90s mainstream – and are now reckoning with climate apocalypse, surveillance culture and how to escape our horrific realityOn the screen of my phone, Brian Molko is trying to dodge the camera’s gaze. I’m in Colorado, video calling him in London, watching him chain smoke from across the Atlantic. He sometimes casts glances at the lens, mostly doing his best to forget it’s there.Over the past 25 years, Molko’s band Placebo have often grappled with the question of image; with being seen, photographed and surveilled. Alongside co-writer and multi-instrumentalist Stefan Olsdal, Molko has carved out a dark and daring aesthetic universe, wrangling topics deemed taboo within alternative rock and culture. There are Placebo songs about abuse, co-dependency, violence and addiction; many seem to ring out from past the end of the world. In 1999, a few years after David Bowie took notice of the band and invited them to open for him – they later duetted on a version of the Placebo song Without You I’m Nothing – REM’s Michael Stipe dedicated It’s the End of the World As We Know It to Placebo at a festival in Belgium. Continue reading...
Judge’s decision could cancel arrangement that has controlled singer’s career, finances and personal lifeBritney Spears’s conservatorship case will be back in court on Friday for a highly anticipated hearing that could restore the singer’s independence for the first time in nearly 14 years.Los Angeles judge Brenda Penny is expected to rule on requests to end the controversial legal arrangement that has allowed a network of people to control the pop star’s finances, career and personal life since 2008. Continue reading...
by Emmanuel Akinwotu, west Africa correspondent, and on (#5RTPG)
Abductions are rife in the north of the country, where armed gangs target schools and colleges with apparent impunityWhen his two daughters were abducted from their university dormitories by armed men in April, Friday Sani volunteered to deliver the ransom. In two bags he carried banknotes to the value of more than 40m naira (£70,000), the price to free Victory and Rejoice, and 37 others taken from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Kaduna.In April and May more than 70 students were abducted from the federal college and the nearby Greenfield University. With little faith that police could help, a group of parents went to the kidnappers, through an intermediary, and paid to get their children back. Continue reading...
Company’s combined sales with industry rival JD.com up about a fifth from 2020The Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba enjoyed record sales during its Singles Day shopping extravaganza, giving a much-needed boost to the firm after a torrid year in which it became the symbol of a government crackdown that hammered the country’s tech sector.The firm said 540.3bn yuan ($84.5bn) was spent as China’s army of consumers went on a splurge despite a more low-key sales campaign after pressure from the government to tone down the aggressive promotions and rampant consumerism. Continue reading...
On Neal Purvis and Robert Wade’s watch, the secret agent has become a parent, grown his hair and even alluded to gay experiences. It even rains in Bond films now. But after the ending of No Time to Die, even they don’t know what happens nextWhen Neal Purvis and Robert Wade were students together in the late 1970s, they formed a band and wrote their own James Bond theme. “It was called Never Say Thunderballs Dr No,” Purvis tells me. “Musically, it was quite good,” offers Wade. The group is still going strong, with Rat Scabies of the Damned on drums. A decade ago, they even played their Bond theme to the producer Michael G Wilson, who with his half-sister Barbara Broccoli is one of the custodians of the franchise. “He said: ‘Don’t give up your day job,’” Purvis shrugs. “Which I thought was a bit unnecessary.”Not too hurtful, though, when your day job is writing James Bond movies. Purvis (60) and Wade (59), have had a hand in every instalment since The World Is Not Enough, back when Pierce Brosnan was still rocking the tuxedo. They oversaw the bare-bones Daniel Craig reboot (Casino Royale), the first Bond movie to be a direct sequel (Quantum of Solace), the death of Judi Dench as M (Skyfall), the return of arch-villain Blofeld (Spectre) and the twists and shocks of No Time to Die. This is no time for spoilers, but it is giving nothing away to reveal that Craig’s swansong is not simply a Bond farewell. It’s an absolute James-changer. Continue reading...
The jailed activist’s writings, some of them smuggled out of his cell, keep the spirit of the 2011 revolution aliveIn early 2011, a generation of Egyptians took to the streets, faced down the security forces and defied the old rule that Egypt’s citizens could never be more than cowed, obedient children of a military state. “I am addressing the youth of Egypt today … from the heart, a father’s dialogue with his sons and daughters,” the 82-year-old dictator Hosni Mubarak said as he clung to power. In Tahrir Square, tens of thousands of his “sons and daughters” – most of them not yet born when he inherited power from Anwar Sadat in 1981 – found this new intimacy unconvincing after the teargas and bullets, and chanted for his downfall.By the next day Mubarak was gone, and the protesters were being hailed by the world leaders who had helped keep him in office for so long. (“Egypt will never be the same,” said Barack Obama, whose administration gave the country’s military $1.3bn each year.) One of the best known was the 29-year-old programmer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, already a veteran of street protest and imprisonment, and a champion of the online spaces that gave young Egyptians a virtual escape from the stifling political and social repression within their own borders. To many, he personified the narrative of a fresh start made possible partly by the new tools of global information sharing – what the international media labelled a “social media revolution”. Continue reading...
Photographer Dave Swindells was one of the few to discover the London nightclub when it opened 30 years ago – and capture its streetwear, Sloanes and giddy energy. He takes us backThere was no fanfare when the Ministry of Sound opened 30 years ago. There wasn’t even a press release. For decades it has been one of the world’s most famous nightclubs (and one of the world’s most successful independent record labels), yet it opened almost in secret, and that was part of the plan.Justin Berkmann was a young DJ who’d lived in New York and been mesmerised by the Paradise Garage and the mixmastery of its resident DJ Larry Levan. After the Garage closed at the end of 1987, Berkmann returned to the UK with an evangelical determination to create a club in London that was built around a similar state-of-the-art sound system. He met two people who believed in his vision: the entrepreneur James Palumbo and his business partner Humphrey Waterhouse.Speaker stacks and dry ice in the main room, the Box. Below; a mystery DJ in the Box Continue reading...
Childhood friends who would finish each other’s sentences, Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth were growing apart. Then Hollingworth’s boyfriend died aged 22. The pop duo explain what they learned in a devastating yearLet’s Eat Grandma arrive in a cafe after their Guardian photoshoot, looking exactly like a pair of pop stars. Jazzed up in opulent jewel tones and immaculate eyeliner, they are both tall – about 5ft 9in – but the resemblance ends there. Rosa Walton has the plump red curls of a 40s movie star, while Jenny Hollingworth channels something of the young Kate Bush.They find it funny, being back in band mode after three years away, says Hollingworth, “because we view ourselves as just …” Continue reading...
Ursula Wanecki's second life as an impersonator started almost by accident. Sixteen years later, she is hanging up the blazersUrsula Wanecki has a dream, which is to finally meet Angela Merkel and swap tips with her about how to make Silesian plum cake. “I know for a fact she likes to make it, with a crumble topping. I imagine us sitting in her garden, having a coffee and eating the cake – with a crunchy crumble – away from the public eye.”She has been told “by people in the know”, she says, that her idea is not so far-fetched. Merkel knows about Wanecki, who has been impersonating her for almost as long as she has been chancellor, and has even sent her a signed book, which Wanecki takes to be tacit approval of her unconventional role. Continue reading...
Scott Morrison accused of being loose with the truth over electric vehicles, submarine deal and botched vaccination rolloutAustralian prime minister Scott Morrison has been forced to address allegations he repeatedly lies as the fallout from his disastrous trip to the G20 and the Glasgow climate conference continues.Two weeks after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, labelled Morrison a liar on the world stage, the Australian leader defended himself against accusations he is routinely loose with the truth, culminating with a talkshow radio host baldly asking if he had ever told a lie in public life. Continue reading...
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