Goodbye Boris Johnson: Final speech as Prime Minister in full September 6, 2022 The Prime Minister said goodbye for the last time this morning at 7.30am. Here is Boris Johnson’s leaving speech in full: “Thank you. Well, this is it, folks. Thank you everybody for coming out so early this morning. In only a couple of hours I will be in Balmoral to see Her Majesty the Queen [...]
Crypto traders shrug at latest inflation data February 15, 2023 The price of Bitcoin sits around $22,260 this morning, up by 2% over the last 24 hours while Ethereum is up 3% at $1,556.
Bitcoin finds footing on unsteady ground February 14, 2023 Bitcoin was trading at $21,830 this morning, up by one per cent over 24 hours as Ethereum holds steady at $1,510.
Boris Johnson to ask Brits to open their homes to some of the 2.2m Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion March 11, 2022 The British public will be asked by the government to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the fighting in their country amid continuing criticism of its response to the refugee crisis. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove will set out on Monday details of a new “sponsored” humanitarian route to allow Ukrainians without family links to [...]
FBI raids £91m luxury yacht of Putin oligarch ally in Mallorca: ‘We are coming for your ill-begotten gains’ April 4, 2022 Spanish Civil Guard officers, together with agents from US intelligence agency FBI, are searching a yacht owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president Vladimir Putin, Spanish media report. They descended on the vessel at the Marina Real in the port of Palma de Mallorca, the capital of Spain’s Balearic Islands, this [...]
More goods could be included in rouble-for-gas scheme warns Kremlin April 4, 2022 More goods could be included in Russia's rouble payment scheme for natural gas, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Backing fracking? Landmark report could resurrect lost industry this week July 3, 2022 The revival of domestic fracking could be finalised this week, as Downing Street scrambles to boost domestic energy supplies.
Crypto markets respond positively to softer US rate hike announcement February 2, 2023 Bitcoin is up by 3.6%, trading for $23,790 this morning, while Ethereum has jumped 6% over the same period to $1,670.
Bitcoin currently trading at highest levels since August January 30, 2023 The price of Bitcoin was holding around $23,200 this morning after earlier hitting levels not seen since August 2022.
A global food crisis could spell a bigger catastrophe than Vladimir Putin’s war August 26, 2022 You always knew you had reached an intellectual dead end when foreign policy grandees sat around a table and recommended sanctions as an all-purpose answer to any problem. While such an initiative almost never practically worked in terms of changing the policy of the offending country, it made political sense in a Washington sort of [...]