Scotland farm and coffee shop selling flat white for $344, UK’s most expensive cup
It's a hefty price to pay for a cup of coffee, but the man behind the pitch promises it won't leave a bitter taste thanks to a dairy farm's worth of sweetener. A Scottish dairy company is offering what it claims is Britain's most expensive cup o' joe. The flat white costs $344. It's a […]
TV tonight: ‘lab rat’ veterans of the UK’s nuclear testing scandal speak out | Television & radio
Britain's nuclear bomb scandal: Our story 9pm, BBC TwoThe documentary describes what the documentary describes as “the longest scandal in British history”: the British government's nuclear testing in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s, and its serious consequences for the health of servicemen and soldiers. This is an upsetting investigation into […]
Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments | NHS
Emergency doctors are sounding the alarm that a winter crisis is approaching, putting patients in already overburdened emergency departments at risk. A Snapshot survey of 83 emergency department doctors from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) found that almost all doctors (94%) agree that conditions in A&E departments across the UK cause patients to […]
UK’s Lammy Tries Browbeating Trump, Doesn’t Retract ‘Neo-Nazi’ Slurs
Britain's chief diplomat, the left-wing Labor Party's David Lammy, said he wanted to “communicate” his idea of how tariffs should work to the Trump administration on economic policy, but also expressed his longstanding disdain for Britain. We have not reached the point of denying it. The next president. Foreign Secretary David Lammy recantes his history […]
Property prices at record highs, says UK’s biggest lender | House prices
The average price of a house in the UK is at a record high but demand could slow as a result of policies in Rachel Reeves' budget, Britain's biggest mortgage lender has said. According to Halifax's monthly house price index, house prices reached a record high of £293,999 in October, surpassing the June 2022 record […]
Budget will reverse huge cuts in UK’s public investment, Reeves confirms | Autumn budget 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will make big cuts to public spending in next week's budget after confirming rules limiting her spending powers will be overhauled to allow the government to release up to £50bn into infrastructure spending. I promise to withdraw it. The Prime Minister said the Treasury would review the way the Treasury calculates the […]
Trump campaign accuses UK’s Labour Party of election ‘interference’
Donald Trump's campaign has condemned “blatant foreign interference” in the US presidential election after volunteers from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labor Party traveled to the US to support Kamala Harris' campaign. The campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an immediate investigation into “clearly illegal foreign contributions […]
‘It’s a monster task’: can culling ferrets and rats save one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies? | Birds
TThe dramatic sea cliffs, crags and crags of Rathlin Island, County Antrim, rise more than 200 meters above the Atlantic Ocean and are home to Britain's largest colony of seabirds, including hundreds of endangered puffins, and attract up to 20,000 birdwatchers a year. and tourists gather. On a gloriously sunny day in September, the cliff […]
Harris camp gets help in key battleground states from UK’s Labour Party
In a now-deleted social media post, the head of activities for the left-wing British Labor Party said “close to 100” current and former Party officials indicated they were planning to head to the United States. Labor leader Sophia Patel joined LinkedIn earlier this week ask for help Participants included current and former party members willing […]
Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog | Climate Change Committee
The government's official climate change watchdog has appointed the head of an energy industry trade body to lead efforts to reduce UK emissions to net zero by 2050. Emma Pinchbeck, head of Energy UK, will become chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) from early next month, after four years at the helm […]