‘It’s you lot,’ complain the increasingly rabid and marginalised voices of those that didn’t get the Brexit they thought they voted for. ‘Always talking the country down.’ As if by talking the country up the supermarket shelves would be magickly restocked with all manner of exotic fruit and vegetables, and…
Former Paypal founder and Trump donor Peter Thiel owns a company called Palantir that has won five NHS contracts in a row without tender. To jog the memory, Palantir is a data mining company that was in part funded by the CIA’s In-Q-Tel venture fund and which helped to track…
Lance slept. Sheets damp and crumpled. Outside a siren wailed. The pale light that pierced the curtains could have meant it was almost evening. A day that had had much prospect had perished stillborn like the last four. He dreamed about Mart because he still owed him, languishing there…
Squirreled away in the secret vaults or ‘Спецхран’ of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow are treasures and artefacts that have been lost to the public since 1945. They are works of art firstly looted by the Nazis and then by the Red Army—two…
Media reports suggest that Baroness Michelle Mone has been sighted in Mayfair. Meanwhile the UK government is suing a UK Company associated with her, PPE Medpro Ltd, for £122 million for the supply of unusable medical gowns. Costs are accumulating at a rate of £61,000 per week for storage of…