Author: LoveWorld UK

THE bitter war of words between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon exploded into a genuine threat to the First Minister’s position last night. Holyrood officials finally published Mr Salmond’s written evidence at 7pm, clearing the way for his long awaited testimony under oath tomorrow. In the submission, he claims a cabal of SNP and Scottish Government figures – including Ms Sturgeon’s husband – plotted to have him put behind bars. At around the same time as it was published, Ms Sturgeon gave a series of television and radio interviews to insist that her predecessor was not telling the truth. Mr…

In December, I related a story on this page about a care home worker who told me of a resident who had Covid put on her death certificate after she fell, suffered a bleed from the brain, was taken to hospital and died. All the care home’s efforts to get an explanation failed. In that piece I said that when the pandemic was over we needed a serious inquiry into the figures. Now Bel Mooney, the distinguished author and advice columnist, tells a similar story about her father. The legend below the graphs of government death statistics clearly states, “deaths…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has agreed with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to continue “coordinating efforts” to ensure digital giants will pay publishers for content shared on their platforms. According to an official statement, the two prime ministers spoke Monday on a range of topics, including the need to regulate social media companies. On Monday, Facebook reversed its decision to ban its news service in Australia—which had effectively preventing news outlets from posting content on the social media site, coming after the News Media Bargaining Code passed both houses of parliament. The Bargaining Code is a bill that creates a framework for news companies to negotiate a fair…

British finance minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to extend the stamp duty holiday by three months until the end of June in an attempt to boost activity in the housing market as the country emerges from lockdown, The Times reported on Wednesday. The extension to the policy, which covers sales of properties worth up to 500,000 pounds ($708,100), could cost the government 1 billion pounds, the report bit.ly/3sglJoS added. Britain raised the threshold of property tax to 500,000 pounds last July from 125,000 pounds, exempting nine of 10 people buying a main home from stamp duty. The temporary cuts are set to…

Thomas Tuchel praised an outstanding team effort after Chelsea took control of their Champions League tie against Atlético Madrid thanks to a stunning away goal from Olivier Giroud. Chelsea dominated the first leg in Bucharest, where the game was played due to Covid-19 restrictions, and have a wonderful chance of progressing beyond the last 16 for the first time since 2014 after a VAR review showed that Giroud’s overhead kick was onside. Although Mason Mount and Jorginho will be suspended for the second leg on 17 March, Tuchel could celebrate his most impressive win since replacing Frank Lampard last month. “I am…

Britain’s Heathrow Airport plunged to a 2 billion pound ($2.8 billion) annual loss after passenger numbers collapsed to levels last seen in the 1970s during the pandemic. Heathrow called on the government to agree a common international travel standard to allow passengers to start flying again in the summer and to provide business tax breaks for airports to help them ride out the crisis. The airport, west of London, is hopeful that travel markets will reopen from mid-May after a government announcement on easing lockdown on Monday. Still Britain’s biggest airport, Heathrow last year lost its title as the busiest…

The Crown Office has warned the Scottish parliament it has “grave concerns” about the publication of new claims by Alex Salmond that there was a “malicious and concerted” attempt by former colleagues to banish him from public life. The Crown Office, Scotland’s prosecution service, wrote to Holyrood late last night after it published some explosive allegations by Salmond that Scottish National party and government figures wanted to destroy his reputation “even to the extent of having me imprisoned”. Several sources have confirmed that prosecutors asked the Scottish parliament to either withdraw or redact Salmond’s latest submission, warning it had “grave concerns” it…

Matt Hancock has defended a decision to hand Covid test orders worth £30million to a former neighbour now under investigation by the medical watchdog, saying it would be ‘ridiculous’ to block friends of ministers from public contracts. Alex Bourne, who crossed paths with the Health Secretary while running the Cock Inn in Thurlow, West Suffolk, began producing millions of NHS Covid test vials during the pandemic. His company, Hinpack, which was originally a packaging manufacturer, won around £30million in work to supply a distributor contracted by the NHS with two million test tubes a week, as well as around 500,000 plastic…

The Supreme Court threw out a series of legal challenges on Feb. 22 to voting processes and results in several states left over from the recent presidential election cycle. The high court didn’t explain why it refused to hear the cases, but three justices dissented from the decision not to hear one of the cases from Pennsylvania. On Jan. 11, with Inauguration Day just over a week away, the high court denied requests from the litigants–President Donald Trump, Republicans, and Trump supporters—to expedite several of the lawsuits, which concerned the presidential elections held in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania,…

Facebook said on Tuesday it will restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms. Australia and the social media group have been locked in a standoff for more than a week after the government introduced legislation that challenged Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google’s dominance in the news content market. Facebook last week blocked Australian users from sharing and viewing news content on its popular social media platform, drawing criticism from publishers and the government. But after a series of talks between…