Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC. He said “ We’ve learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. I’ll fight as hard for…
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th US president in Washington, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris- the first woman to hold that position- will take the oath of office alongside Biden. Donald Trump who is expected to leave the White House for the last time bound for Florida, will not attend his successor’s inauguration –…
Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism, self-taught internet sleuths end up solving several mega crimes of our time. Their founder, a high school dropout on a kitchen laptop tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering galvanising citizen journalists across the…
Ten rebel Republicans voted with 222 Democrats after a day of debate in the House of Representatives. Trump becomes the first US president ever to be impeached twice with the proceedings now set to move to the Senate for trial. The US House of Representatives is preparing a vote to impeach President Donald Trump over…
Respected financial journalist Alex Brummer and Brexit supporter was offering an argument for optimism in his must read book The Great British Reboot, and offers a manifesto for how to re-engineer the UK economy. Brummer’s prescriptions align with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political prospectus, despite the gap between strategy and implementation remains wide apart. His analysis of…
Police officer Brian D Sicknick who died late on Thursday after sustaining injuries while physically engaging with protesters has become the fifth fatality of the riots. US media reported that Sicknick who had worked for the Capitol Police for more than 10 years and most recently worked in its first responder unit was hit with…
President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was confirmed after a deadly attack on the Capitol building by armed supporters of President Donald Trump, who forced lawmakers to evacuate both the House and Senate chambers. Vice-President Mike Pence who presided over the count conducted by a joint session of Congress announced that Biden had won the Electoral…
Mark Antony, determined to avenge the assassination of his pal Julius Caesar, sent his henchman far and wide to hunt down his killers. One of those nasty fellows was a bloke called Publius Cornelius Dolabella, renowned as a rapist. His sidekick known only as the Samarian, was a sadist handy with a heated knife, who…
A new era has begun for the United Kingdom as the UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangement for travel, trade, immigration and security came into force. Boris Johnson said the UK had “Freedom in our Hands” and the ability to do things “differently and better” . The first lorries…
The House of Commons votes on the first stage of the EU-UK Brexit trade deal which put the agreement into law. The Commons approves the measures by 521 votes to 73 at its first stage in Commons as the Parliament was recalled to put the agreement into UK Law, one day before the UK stops…