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- Ukraine crisis: US orders home most embassy staff; Britons told to leave amid fears of no-notice Russian invasion
- Boris Johnson’s position ‘difficult’ if Met fines him, warns Iain Duncan Smith
- Boris Johnson ‘should not be involved in picking new Met chief’
- UK Treasury pushes to end most free Covid testing despite experts’ warnings
- What gambling firms don’t want you to know – and how they keep you hooked
- Valentine’s Day recipes with the wow factor – from confit duck to chocolate fondant
- ‘Welcome to England. How are you doing?’: the artist who holds out a hand to refugees
- Police seek man after woman’s hair ripped from scalp in London
- NSW byelections: Perrottet vows to win back voters after Coalition suffers double-digit swings
- If Blinken’s visit to Fiji is aimed at curtailing Chinese influence, he has his work cut out for him | Shailendra Singh
| Posted: 12 Feb 2022 05:14 AM PST Putin and Biden to talk later today; UK troops training Ukrainian army to leave this weekend
The Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra has called on Dutch citizens to leave Ukraine as soon as possible due to the security situation there and issued a notice advising against travelling to the country. This report is from Reuters. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson’s position ‘difficult’ if Met fines him, warns Iain Duncan Smith Posted: 12 Feb 2022 03:40 AM PST Another former Conservative leader piles pressure on prime minister over Partygate allegations The former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has warned Boris Johnson it will be hard to cling to power if the Metropolitan police finds he breached Covid rules. The comments from the senior Tory will ratchet up pressure on the prime minister to resign if he broke the law, after Johnson received a questionnaire from the Met on Friday regarding alleged parties in Downing Street. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson ‘should not be involved in picking new Met chief’ Posted: 12 Feb 2022 03:55 AM PST Ex-commissioner says PM should recuse himself from process of finding Cressida Dick's replacement while under police investigation Boris Johnson should not be involved in selecting the new head of the Metropolitan police while he remains under investigation for alleged lockdown breaches, a former force commissioner has said. Ian Blair, a former Met commissioner, called on the prime minister to recuse himself from involvement in the process, describing the decision about Cressida Dick's replacement as "an enormously important choice". Continue reading... |
| UK Treasury pushes to end most free Covid testing despite experts’ warnings Posted: 11 Feb 2022 11:06 AM PST Most PCR testing for people with symptoms could be scrapped by end of March in plans to 'live with virus' The Treasury is pushing for most free Covid testing to end as soon as next month to save billions despite warnings from public health experts and scientists. Several sources told the Guardian that Rishi Sunak's department wants to end most PCR testing for people with Covid symptoms, possibly by the end of March. The exception would be those in hospitals, high-risk settings and for the 1.3m extremely vulnerable people who are eligible for antivirals if they contract Covid. Continue reading... |
| What gambling firms don’t want you to know – and how they keep you hooked Posted: 12 Feb 2022 04:00 AM PST From brain hacks to darks nudges and near misses – betting companies employ an arsenal of clever tricks to tempt punters into spending more money. Here's how … Each year, British punters lose more than £11bn to the gambling industry, equivalent to nearly £164 for every man, woman and child in the UK. This money-spinning national love affair with betting owes much to the liberalisation of gambling laws under Tony Blair's Labour government in 2005. The growth of the UK betting sector since then has created billionaires, such as Bet365's Denise Coates and Betfred's Done brothers. At the other end of the scale, what starts out as a harmless flutter has driven countless customers into financial ruin, family breakups, and worse. The betting industry promotes its wares predominantly through advertising on TV, social media or via wall-to-wall sponsorship of football clubs. But gambling has always been different from other consumer products. Coca-Cola advertises in the knowledge that you probably already know how it tastes. The occasional memory jog will remind you why you like it, and might lead you to buy more and to choose Coke over Pepsi when you do. Convincing a customer to choose your brand – and remain loyal – is only half the battle with gambling. Betting firms also need to persuade punters that they have a decent shot at winning some money, even though – in the long term at least – they don't. Continue reading... |
| Valentine’s Day recipes with the wow factor – from confit duck to chocolate fondant Posted: 12 Feb 2022 02:00 AM PST Looking for kitchen inspiration to spur romance? Try these swoonworthy recipes from Guardian and Observer food writers • Read more tips for easy date-night dishes Thomasina Miers suggests a lie-in to work up an appetite for this creative recipe of green brunch eggs. Continue reading... |
| ‘Welcome to England. How are you doing?’: the artist who holds out a hand to refugees Posted: 12 Feb 2022 03:00 AM PST Marie Gracie helps families arriving from Afghanistan. The Guardian angel sends a party entertainer to help the children adjust to their first English winter Marie Gracie never met the boy, but his fate changed her life. On 2 September 2015, three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up, drowned, on a Turkish beach. His family were Syrian refugees, trying to reach Europe. Journalist Nilüfer Demir took a photo. Alan lies face down, in a T-shirt and shorts. His feet are so tiny. His hands are upturned, facing the sky. "I'm a mother," says Gracie, an artist from Milton Keynes. "Can you imagine anything worse than your child being in the news like that?" She reached out to her local chapter of Refugees Welcome, set up in the wake of the Syrian war. Continue reading... |
| Police seek man after woman’s hair ripped from scalp in London Posted: 12 Feb 2022 04:27 AM PST Scotland Yard said the 31-year-old victim sustained facial injuries in the prolonged racially aggravated attack Police have released a photograph of a man they want to speak to after a woman had hair torn from her scalp in a racially aggravated attack. The assault took place outside East Croydon Railway Station, south London, at about 6.45pm on 18 December when the 31-year-old victim got off a Route 119 bus. Continue reading... |
| NSW byelections: Perrottet vows to win back voters after Coalition suffers double-digit swings Posted: 12 Feb 2022 04:18 AM PST Labor and Coalition likely to win two Super Saturday contests each, but final result unlikely to be known for at least a week The New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, has vowed to win back voters after his government suffered the likely loss of the seat of Bega amid double-digit swings in two of four Super Saturday byelections, based on early counts. The Labor leader, Chris Minns, declared the "fight was on" a year out from the next state election, saying the results were "a message sent by the electors directly to the premier". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2022 06:28 PM PST As the US downsized its Pacific presence, China stepped into the vacuum; a rare visit from the secretary of state won't convince Fiji to turn on its ally The US secretary of state's lightning visit to Fiji may be sudden, but not surprising. That Antony Blinken is the first US secretary of state to visit Fiji in 37 years reflects just how much has changed geopolitically. It is also an indication of Fiji's influential role in this part of the world, being a strong, if not the strongest, Pacific ally of China, the arch-rival of the US in the Pacific. Continue reading... |
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