Boris Johnson has authorised a “compensation” payment of almost £250,000 to the outgoing cabinet secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, after he agreed to step down in September. The UK’s top civil servant…
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Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several US states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example,…
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In 2013 a freedom of information request was submitted regarding the Palace of Westminster car park permits and MPs’ (and peers’) transport arrangements. Another request was submitted in 2015. Members…
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What is a Cashless Society ? A Cashless society is an economic concept where financial transactions are executed in an electronic format rather using banknote. In a cashless society, each…
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Entrepreneur Simon Dolan, lost his bid to bring a High Court challenge against the government over the coronavirus lockdown. Mr Dolan raised more than £200,000 via crowdfunding to seek a…
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BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of protesters tried to storm the parliament building in Belgrade on Tuesday after the Serbian president announced that a coronavirus lockdown will be reintroduced in the…
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In the next months you have the opportunity to make the UK Economy among the strongest in the world, and every pound you invest at the most necessary level comes…
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Day 118, the end of Week 17 of Lock-down, writes Patient.I, I’m not feeling the slightest urge to run hog-wild down the street just because others are. I’ve got myself…
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Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has been preparing for an outbreak like coronavirus as part of his work for many years. The…
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Metropolitan Police chief Dame Cressida Dick said that officers issued an apology to the champion sprinter Bianca Williams after she and her partner Ricardo dos Santos a Portuguese 400m runner…