Mhairi Black, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, who unseated Labour’s campaign director Douglas Alexander, and, at 20, is the youngest member of parliament for centuries, was snapped by fellow new arrival Anne McLaughlin, MP for Glasgow North East, with a chip butty on the Commons terrace. … [Read more...] about SNP MPs flout Commons etiquette with first-day tweets
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Newcastle’s West End: Elswick to Newburn – in pictures
Jeremy Deller, an artist, wanted to be photographed in a Coronation Street setting. Although Robert Street in Scotswood, where I was living at the time, was not exactly like Salford, all we had to do was go out of my front door for a suitably “northern” location, where we proceeded to photograph each other. Technicolor was still several years off – and the north of England really felt black and white in those days. … [Read more...] about Newcastle’s West End: Elswick to Newburn – in pictures
Last orders for Berlin bar at center of capital’s rent wars
Silent landlord But that still left Syndikat with the basic question unanswered: who is the landlord? Further digging established that Firman Properties and the others were owned by the William Pears Group, a multi-billion euro, privately run property company owned by three brothers, Mark, David and Trevor Pears. Based in London, the brothers are billionaires by virtue of their vast global property portfolio. … [Read more...] about Last orders for Berlin bar at center of capital’s rent wars
Daniel Kaluuya plays US revolutionary in Judas and the Black Messiah
Hampton might have been one such "messiah", as might Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael or Martin Luther King. His increasing radicalism had set off alarm bells in the bureau. Not long before his death, Hampton told The Chicago Sun-Times he was "at war with the pigs". … [Read more...] about Daniel Kaluuya plays US revolutionary in Judas and the Black Messiah
Trump meets with Dr. Birx to tell her ‘we’re doing very well’ in the COVID-19 fight after earlier slamming her warnings the virus is widespread as ‘pathetic’
According to a chart displayed by CNN, Dr. Birx is currently monitoring 20 of the 50 states for their coronavirus infections levels. She is a lead member of the coronavirus task force along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. … [Read more...] about Trump meets with Dr. Birx to tell her ‘we’re doing very well’ in the COVID-19 fight after earlier slamming her warnings the virus is widespread as ‘pathetic’
