Author: LoveWorld UK

On Feb. 26, White House National security adviser Jake Sullivan said there’s “no definitive answer” to whether the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic can be traced to a lab leak in China. During an interview on the CNN Sunday talk show “State of the Union,” Sullivan addressed a Wall Street Journal report stating the Energy Department had joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its assessment that COVID-19 likely escaped a Wuhan lab in 2019 due to a research accident. “Here’s what I can tell you. President Biden has directed, repeatedly, every element of our intelligence community to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of…

A price cap on the amount suppliers can charge for energy will fall by £999 to £3,280 from April, but bills will still rise due to a planned cut in government support. The energy regulator, Ofgem, said on Monday that its quarterly cap on household bills for average dual-fuel direct-debit customers will fall by 23% for the three months from 1 April, from £4,279 for the January to March quarter. Consumers will not actually pay this figure as the government’s energy price guarantee and its £400 discount scheme subsidise household bills, keeping the price for a typical household at £2,100…

There are differing definitions of a trophy drought at these two clubs. It felt like a long time ago that Manchester United were winning this competition and the Europa League under José Mourinho. It was 2017 and the barren years since then had added up to their longest sequence without silverware since the early 1980s. Newcastle, of course, could see that and reraise it to 54 years – the chasm to their famous Fairs Cup triumph. This final, Newcastle’s first since the FA Cup of 1999 when they took on the same opponents, was all about who could chart fresh…

Manchester United will face Real Betis in the last 16 of the Europa League after getting past another club from La Liga, Barcelona, and Arsenal will play Sporting. Betis are fifth in Spain’s top flight, 22 points behind Barcelona, and reached this stage by finishing top of their Europa League group with five wins and a draw from matches against Roma, Ludogorets and HJK Helsinki. Sporting beat Midtjylland 5-1 on aggregate in their playoff to quality for the last 16, winning 4-0 in Denmark on Thursday. They finished third in their Champions League group behind Tottenham, against whom they secured a home win and an away draw,…

As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on social media with those who think that automated tills at the supermarket are part of a plan for world government, that reptiloids run the Earth, and that the Covid vaccines contain microchips put there by Bill Gates, I feel that I am well qualified to reject the whole government digital ID thing. This is also despite it now being endorsed by Tony Blair, a politician I respect (though the inexplicable involvement of William Hague is less of an encouraging sign). They say it’s part of a technological revolution comparable to the first industrial revolution. Artificial…

Britain will not send Typhoon jets to Ukraine in the short term, the defence secretary has said, despite a campaign by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and the former prime minister Boris Johnson. Speaking on the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion on Friday, Ben Wallace said the Typhoons would be too complex for Ukrainian pilots to fly and would involve putting hundreds of British troops on the ground to support them. The defence secretary’s comments deal a blow to Zelenskiy, who travelled to the UK this month to make a public request for fighter jets. The Ukrainian president has been backed by Johnson, who on Thursday repeated…

What is being described by her allies as a dirty tricks campaign against Kate Forbes’ fundamentalist Christian values is beginning to become unstuck.  Her supporters say that the joint front-runner in the campaign to replace Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland is unrepentant after being subjected to a bitter campaign that has attempted to pour scorn on her beliefs. But it is beginning to rebound on her critics, following a dramatic intervention from the Catholic Church in Scotland – not normally a religious partner of the fundamentalist Free Church of Scotland, of which the finance minister has been a long-time…

It is probably fair to say that the jury has been out on Antony since Manchester United paid €100m to take him from Ajax last summer. The most insistent criticism of the winger has been that he is too predictable. Defenders know that he wants to come in from the right and curl for the far corner with his favoured left foot. It will not be out for much longer if he gets the trick to work like this and to settle matches like these. United had battled back from a 1-0 half-time deficit against Barcelona, the runaway La Liga leaders, Fred lashing…

The Israeli army launched airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip hours after Palestinian militants in the regions fired six rockets towards Israel’s south. The escalation in violence came a day after an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank that killed 11. The strikes occurred shortly after 6am on Thursday and were confirmed in a statement from Israel’s military. Hours earlier, Israel’s air defences intercepted five rockets which were fired towards the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, the military said. One other rocket landed in an open field. There were no reports of damage or casualties. On Wednesday…

Keir Starmer has defended dropping key pledges made during his Labour leadership bid, saying they have been adapted given unprecedented global events, as he prepares to set out his five “national missions” to voters. Before a speech in Manchester that will reveal the building blocks of Labour’s general election manifesto, Starmer sought to convince voters he would stand by the new targets, which include delivering the highest sustained growth in the G7 for Britain. He denied that the 10 promises he made during the 2020 race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn had been abandoned and insisted they remained “important statements of value and…