• Not so-serious stuff?

    Updated: 2024-08-31 05:00:00
    You can tell it's the silly season when right wing newspapers have nothing better to do than lead on the removal of a picture from No. Ten Downing Street, effectively promoting the subject of that portrait to cult status much like past leaders of totalitarian countries of both the left and right. The Independent reports Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from his new grace and favour pad. The paper tells us that Starmer's biographer, Tom Baldwin said that the prime minister found the £100,000 painting, which was commissioned by Gordon Brown, "unsettling" - sparking outrage ...

  • Virtual

    Updated: 2024-08-30 15:11:39
    All that glitters has been mustered here: a shining ceaseless restless sea of brilliance, salting all it touches... In a parched world without rain, dust and ash prevail... Our lives consumed as wraiths and smoke, thralls with no shadows in a pixel wonderland, we dance to the layered algorithm.

  • Could Vaughan Gething go to the House of Lords?

    Updated: 2024-08-30 05:00:00
    Nation cymru reports on rumours that Secretary of State for Wales Jo Stevens has been lobbying for disgraced former First Minister Vaughan Gething to be given a seat in the House of Lords. The news website says that while Ms Stevens herself has not responded to our questions on the matter, the suggestion that she has been pushing for Mr Gething to get a peerage has been denied vehemently by a UK Government source. This has not stopped speculation though: Mr Gething resigned as First Minister in July following a succession of scandals. He accepted donations totalling £200,000 from a ...

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