Author: Laura Robinson
China is seeking the return of three UK-based human rights activists – and is offering £100,000 for assistance leading to their arrests.Beijing has approached Interpol to demand warrants for the trio who spoke out against repressive reforms in former UK colony Hong Kong.Nathan Law, Finn Lau and Mung Siu-Tat are among eight persons Beijing wants to imprison for endangering national security.While the UK does not extradite to China, the move could render the trio prisoners in this country – as their ability to travel freely could be compromised.Two European Union states, Portugal and the Czech Republic are yet to suspend…
As Meghan said, in typically syrupy style while promoting her Archetypes podcast last year, she and husband Prince Harry are ‘like salt and pepper — we always move together’.And yet, as their media empire implodes, with their Spotify deal axed, today it seems that these particular condiments have somehow ended up on totally opposing shelves in the pantry.Meghan, the ink fresh on her management deal with the ultimate Hollywood agent, Ari Emanuel at WME, is still pursuing creative and commercial opportunities. It was a solo deal — not her and Harry — and an enormous coup.Harry, meanwhile, is said to be…
ALISON BOSHOFF: Brad to make Pitt stop at Clooney’s £10m Berkshire home for F1 movieBy Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail Published: 20:41 EDT, 22 June 2023 | Updated: 21:11 EDT, 22 June 2023 Residents of the picturesque village of Sonning are used to damping down the impulse to rubberneck when their A-list neighbours George and Amal Clooney are in town.The actor and his British wife bought a £10 million house in Berkshire in 2014 and live there part-time with their twins and staff. Visitors have included the Obamas and Harry and Meghan.Now the locals had better brace themselves as…
Bosses of big banks tell Rishi Sunak that social media firms including Meta should pay more in battle against online fraud ‘pandemic’ that is costing British consumers £1.2billion a yearChiefs of UK banks like Barclays warned PM the UK a ‘global hotspot for fraud’They said social firms like Facebook should repay fraud victims if their site usedBy Oliver Price Published: 13:20 EDT, 17 June 2023 | Updated: 13:21 EDT, 17 June 2023 Bosses of Britain’s biggest banks have told the Prime Minister that technology firms such as Meta should pay more in the battle to combat the ‘pandemic’ of online…
Everybody knows that Mick Jagger — soon to celebrate his 80th birthday — is canny with money. He dropped out of a degree in finance and accounting at the London School of Economics to join the Rolling Stones and famously took the band into tax exile in the 1970s. He’s now said to be personally worth around £350 million.And his reputation for prudence is further strengthened by new accounts for the group, published in the Netherlands. I can reveal that these suggest that the Stones paid £59,500 in tax . . . on income of £26 million.Promogroup, a holding company…
With its blaze of bruising publicity, it’s little wonder insiders have dubbed Phillip Schofield’s daytime TV downfall the ‘sofapocalypse’.But as Phillip retreats to lick his wounds and Holly Willoughby fights for her onscreen survival, there’s one former This Morning colleague who is not weeping into his morning coffee over their fates. Indeed, Eamonn Holmes is giving every impression of eating up the chaos with a big smile, long spoon and a side order of ice cream and sprinkles.Again and again he has returned to the topic on his live GB News show. ‘Anyone watching today who has kissed Phillip Schofield, let us…
A major Kremlin critic detained in Russia has been granted honorary Canadian citizenship in a bid to help win his freedom – prompting calls for the US and Britain to play their part to increase his chances of making it out alive. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a close ally of murdered opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, was jailed for 25 years on treason charges on April 17 this year after surviving two poisonings which left him in a coma in both 2015 and 2017. The 41-year-old British-Russian national also lived in Washington for at least a decade, and his wife Evgenia Kara-Murza is still based in…
James Norton’s career took a stratospheric turn thanks to his role as psychopath and sexual predator Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley — the finale this February was one of the most-watched television moments of the year.And it can be revealed that he is being sought to play another ‘serial killer’ Yorkshireman — in a dark new portrait of the poet laureate Ted Hughes, who will be presented as a monster who destroyed his lovers via ‘coercive control’. Hughes, who died in 1998, is a figure of fascination for rising TV writer Grace Ofori-Attah — and she has got her Cambridge…
If you think your taxes are high under the Tories — just wait until Labour gets in, writes ANDREW NEILBritain’s tax burden is at a seven-decade high, yet politicians of all hues want to slap still more taxes on us.Far from an intelligent debate about how we might get to keep a little more of what we make, the political discourse is dominated by louder voices demanding the right to grab an even bigger slice of our hard-earned dosh.Even the Tories have given up making the case for more limited government and lower taxes. Yes, ministers periodically dangle the prospect…
Boris Johnson is at the centre of a furious row between Rishi Sunak’s Government and the official Covid-19 inquiry as ministers refuse to supply the probe with all the information they want.The inquiry was set up by Mr Johnson to examine decisions made before, during and after the pandemic in the UK to figure out what went right and wrong.But his successor, via the Cabinet Office, has launched an unprecedented legal battle to with-hold from the inquiry some of the former prime minister’s notes and WhatsApp messages from the period.Mr Johnson, in turn, has today decided to hand them over himself,…