Larry the cat, born in January 2007, has served as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom at 10 Downing Street since 15th February 2011. The tabby brown and white cat was recruited from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home on the recommendation of his mousing skills. Larry has seen four prime ministers…
Liz Truss is UK’s third female Prime Minister and becomes UK’s 56th PM. Johnson the outgoing PM in his farewell speech said “Get Behind Truss”. The Prime Minister was appointed by the Queen at Balmoral Castle. Earlier Boris Johnson tendered his resignation to the monarch after travelling separately to Scotland. It is understood that the…
TIM PEAKE – BRITISH ASTRONAUT DOING A TOUR ABOUT LIFE IN SPACE AND ITS PREPARATIONS. Tim Peake’s touring talks on space travel go on into April 2023. In a two-hour talk with an interval, he was at The London Palladium on Sunday 4th September where – with videos, photographs, and a memorable accompaniment of top…
Boris Johnson, the outgoing PM bids farewell in a speech outside No 10, calls himself “a booster Rocket” that has “fulfilled its function” as he hands over to Liz Truss. “This is it, folks,” he says and boasts of his record in office and calls on the Conservative Party to unite behind Liz Truss. He…
Elizabeth Truss has beaten ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak to become the new Tory leader, and the new UK PM, after winning the contest to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader. Truss, is a former Liberal Democrat activist who marched against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, but who now claims to be the keeper of the…
Norwegian writer and chef Andreas Viestad can tell the history of the entire humanity by the titular meal you eat. He potted the history of the globe from the development of its population, via the rise and fall of its empires, to the improvement of its economies. Viestad’s regular Italian meal, focusing on staples like…
Two American academics Hal Brands and Michael Beckley forecasts a scenario of superpower conflict with China. America and China are running a “superpower marathon” that may last a century. Chinas has entered the most perilous period in the life of great power. It has gained the capability to upend the existing international order but is…
Handel and Rameau were busy composing in 1749, Darwin arrived in South America abroad with the Beagle, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a cultural colossus, a figure ranked alongside Shakespeare and Dante. By the 1790s this group of extraordinary friends changes the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution’s rapid collapse into tyranny, what they…