Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-Left backers vow to set up breakaway ‘Old Labour’ rebel party after former leader was suspended over anti-Semitism row The radical call was made by the party’s former frontbencher Chris Williamson He said Labour was ‘dead as a vehicle for socialism…for progressive change Mr Corbyn was suspended after appearing to undermine bombshell report … Read more
Born Thomas Sean Connery in Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge area on August 25 1930, the actor left school at an early age and took his first job as a milkman before working as a bricklayer. At 16 he enlisted in the Royal Navy but was discharged three years later on medical grounds after suffering a stomach ulcer. … Read more
A Russian woman identified as a key source in the dossier by British counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele dossier is a former employee of Kremlin-owned state media. Steele’s infamous report was leaked weeks before Trump’s inauguration, alleging Russian influence over him and contained salacious information about his reported conduct in a Moscow hotel room during the … Read more
Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a high percentage of a population has become immune to it, either through vaccination or previous infection. To cause an outbreak, a virus must have a continuous supply of potential victims whose immune system do not know how to fend it … Read more
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev blames TV show Dallas for the fall of the USSR because it opened people’s eyes to western lifestyles Dave Stewart said Mikhail Gorbachev told him that the 1980s soap opera Dallas ‘had more effect’ in bringing about Soviet collapse than anything else Gorbachev said the show opened people’s eyes to Western … Read more
The United States has threatened to destroy any long-range missiles sent to Venezuela from Iran, after a UN embargo on Iran buying or selling weapons expired last week. The warning comes a few days after Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro announced the creation of a Scientific and Technological Military Council that will seek the independence of … Read more
A Russian medical worker has revealed the grim toll that coronavirus is taking on the country as he filmed the bodies of dozens of victims packed into a morgue. ‘Corpses everywhere, corpses, corpses,’ the man can be heard saying as he gives viewers a tour of a corridor and dissection room that is typically used … Read more
Britain’s nuclear submarines become outnumbered as Russian vessels flood into the North Atlantic – as Putin reopens missile base near UK targets Britain’s nuclear submarines are outnumbered by Russia in the North Atlantic Vladimir Putin has reopened a cruise missile base within range of UK targets Head of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord Admiral … Read more
The story is told (it may even be true) of the old woman who lived alone with her cat in a small wooden shack on the border between Russia and Belarus. One day, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union made these two places into separate countries, an official banged on her door. ‘Sorry … Read more
Britain has carried a series of covert attacks on Russia‘s leaders and their allies, the former cabinet secretary has disclosed. Lord Sedwill said the UK Government had launched cyber attacks to punish President Vladimir Putin and his senior allies. He said the aim of such actions had been to ‘impose a price greater than one they … Read more