Lee Anderson’s exclusive article in the Daily Express is the “the closest” his critics will get to a “one-word apology”, Penny Mordaunt has said. The Commons leader also appealed to the Ashfield MP, who remains suspended from the Conservative Party, to “consider
Senior Tories hope Lee Anderson’s article for the Express provides a “way back” for him into the party. The former Conservative deputy chairman insisted he is “not a racist” after an Islamophobia row led to him losing the party whip. Cabinet Office
A noted Belarusian dissident author said Friday that his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from an opposition website. BELARUS ARRESTS DISSIDENT AUTHOR’S FATHER ON ‘UNCLEAR GROUNDS’ Alexander Filipenko was seized by police Thursday in
Suella Braverman and her advisors ignored some requests from No.10 to edit her Times column criticising the Met Police’s approach to Palestine marches, and comparing the scenes on the street of London to those seen in Northern Ireland. Last night No.10 refused
An Egyptian court sentenced a rights activist on Tuesday to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019 in a case that renewed global attention to Egypt’s intolerance of government critics. The case of Patrick George Zaki has
The Irish Times was forced to retract a story it ran that criticized Irish women for using fake tans after it learned the story was allegedly submitted by someone using artificial intelligence to write it. The May 11 op-ed, “Irish women’s obsession
President Biden on Wednesday met with leaders of NATO nations dubbed the Bucharest 9 (B9) – which flank the eastern front and stand as the first line of defense against Russia – to reaffirm the alliance’s commitment to Article 5 and the
The projected No. 1 pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, Victor Wembanyama, is the most exciting NBA prospect since LeBron James. Everyone is clambering to get a piece of the French star. Victor Wembanyama, #1 of Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92, shoots a free
Two investigative journalists for a major daily newspaper in Finland were convicted Friday of revealing national defense secrets in a 2017 article that prosecutors said included information from classified documents, Finnish media said. The prosecution had asked for Helsingin Sanomat reporters Tuomo