Anger grows at BBC over Davie's licence fee comments

Tory MPs are stepping up calls for the TV licence fee to be scrapped after BBC boss Tim Davie’s admission that the current funding arrangements are “truly amazing”. Sir Christopher Chope, one of those pushing for a new system, said: “I agree.

Japan fires aide for anti-LGBTQ comments: 'Outrageous'

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired one of his aides on Saturday for making anti-LGBTQ comments, calling the remarks “outrageous and completely incompatible with the administration’s policies.”  Masayoshi Arai, an economic official who joined Kishida’s administration last fall, said people would leave