Cathay Pacific most punctual airline

Cathay Pacific was the most punctual airline, with aircraft typically taking off just eight minutes behind schedule. The average delay across all flights were 16 minutes. Teh ranking features the 43 airliens with over  2, 000 flights from UK airports last year. Vueling Airlines, the Spanish carrier,  has the worst punctuality of major airlines flying…

Hamilton wins record sixth British GP

Hamilton wins record sixth British GP, as Vettel crashes into Verstappen at Silverstone. A sixth home win for Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton said “ I know that my teachers will be watching and until my dying day I want to prove them wrong, and all the negative things people have said to me. When I was…

Indonesian Minister challenges Mark Zuckerberg to paddle race

 Susi Pudjiastuti, the Indonesian minister challenged Msrk Zuckerberg to s race after the Facebook founder posted a picture of himself paddling on a lake. She asked fro 10 per cent stake in Facebook if she won. Pudjiastuti added she’d sell the shares back to Zuckerberg and use the money to buy a few big patrol…

Iceland has made it illegal to pay women less than men

Companies in Iceland  will now have to obtain certification for demonstrating equal pay. Iceland has been ranked the best in the world or gender pay equality for 9 years in a row, A new law has come into force in Iceland making it illegal to pay women less than men came into effect on January…

Chaucer’s fusion of continental writers

The grandfather of English literature is strong patriot as Victorian writers saw him as indicative of an Englishness they wished to recapture, modern day journalists describe Brexiters as Chaucerian.  Chaucer had a foreign wife and was mostly dependent on contemporary continental literature to inspire his own.  Chaucer was a writer fro 1343-1400 who Shakespeare after…