The Labour peer admitted to Laura Kuenssberg that his friendship with Epstein was ‘a terrible mistake’ but appeared to suggest he disagreed with his sacking as ambassador to the US
I’ve had a guess at a Leeds formation but they’ve got so many attacking players in their team that we’ll have to wait until kick-off to be sure.
There are two attack-minded wingers (Gnonto and Harrison) and another three forwards (Okafor, Nmecha and Piroe), with no recognised full-backs in the XI.
In first TV interview since he was sacked as UK ambassador to US, Mandelson says association with Epstein was ‘terrible mistake’ but adds: ‘I was not culpable’
Laura Kuenssberg asks Peter Mandelson if he liked Donald Trump when he was the UK ambassador.
Mandelson says he did like Trump, listing of numerous reasons why, but said he did not like all of his “language”.
I like him, yes, I liked his humour, his graciousness…
I liked his directness. You knew exactly what he was thinking and where you stood and what he wanted. And how he was proposing to engage, with you. Did I like in all his language? No, I didn’t, did I? Did he make me gasp?
What’s going to happen is there’s going to be, another discussion, a lot of consultation and a lot of negotiation.
At the end of the day, we are all going to have to wake up to the reality that the Arctic needs securing against China and Russia.
Frances and Ceri Menai-Davis, who lost their son Hugh to cancer, say gap in financial help is ‘devastating’
Parents of critically-ill children are being “crushed” by a lack of statutory financial support when they need to take time off work, the parents of a six-year-old boy who died of cancer have said.
Hugh Menai-Davis was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease when he fell suddenly ill in October 2020. The little boy, then aged five, had been happy and healthy before he developed severe stomach pains.
Three hundred Kurds detained and further 400 evacuated following clashes in Aleppo
Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as US and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets.
An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish fighters and 60 wounded had been bussed to the Kurds’ de facto autonomous zone in the north-east from the Sheikh Maqsoud district, the last area of Aleppo to fall to the army.
Will the sacred right to bike lanes survive? The first great test is coming up on Jan. 28, as the Ontario government takes last summer’s startling Cycle Toronto ruling to the provincial Court of Appeal. In July, Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas ruled in favour of the bike-lobby group in a suit against the province, striking down provisions of the awkwardly named Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act that would have removed bike-exclusive lanes from a list of Toronto traffic arteries (and re-opened them to automotive traffic). Read More
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan was widely praised, and for good reason, but when history looks back at the early 21st century, it is the Abraham Accords that should be remembered as a transformative breakthrough for modern Middle Eastern diplomacy. Read More
The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on science
Paul Nurse is a turn up for the books. A Nobel prize-winning geneticist, former director of the Francis Crick Institute and erstwhile head of Rockefeller University in the US, his CV marks him out as one of this generation’s most eminent scientific figures.
But his presidency of the Royal Society, a position he has taken up for a second time, makes him rarer still. No other scientist in centuries has had a second term at the head of the academy.
The Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration massacre, Australia’s deadliest terrorist incident, which resulted in 15 dead and 40 wounded, continues to dominate my thoughts. One particular witness account haunts me. A mother, separated from her three-year-old daughter, found some of the few police officers present. She told a journalist: “These police officers were hiding behind a car… I tried to grab one of their guns. Then one of them grabbed me and said ‘no.’” Read More
Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on game-changing people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oil sands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting transformed millions of lives; Loblaws changed how we live. Today, we continue our new National Post series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it.Read More
When I was still a kid in the 1970s, the OPEC oil cartel launched an embargo that sent prices through the roof, hitting western economies like a sledgehammer. Read More
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