Blain: Tomorrow’s UK Election Will Be Shockingly Binary
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Today at TechCrunch Berlin, four of Atomico’s most senior partners took the stage together for the first time, flying into the city from London, Stockholm and Geneva to talk about a wide range of issues. Among the many things we discussed...
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A research team is studying how to improve pollinator monitoring in the UK in a cost-effective manner.
Stock the fridge, fill up the kettle, and put on those thermal pyjamas: Election Day 2019 is upon us, and this time, it's cold and miserable out there! It's the least wonderful time of the year for an all-nighter watching the results slowly trickle...
“Police said there were no specific targets, and say while the activity was not linked to last week’s London Bridge terror attack, the incident was a factor.” One jihad leads to another. An update on this story. “Sydney man...
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Tensions are high as the UK's 2019 General Election draws to a close with political activists and canvassers making use of the final days of campaigning to pitch their message to the electorate before Britain heads to the ballot box on the 12...
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LONDON — British political leaders rose early Wednesday to pursue undecided voters on the eve of a national election, zigzagging across the country in hopes that one last push will get the wavering to the polls.
Though opinion polls have...
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LONDON — The national election in Britain Thursday will bring a new Parliament to power and may lead to a change at the top if Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party does not fare well with voters. Johnson called the early election in...
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LONDON — British authorities are asking Amazon to address concerns that its plan to buy a stake in food delivery platform Deliveroo could damage competition between businesses that do takeaways and those that deliver groceries.
The Competition and...
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London Teen Murders Young Gang Rival Over Drug Turf
19-year old Ayoub Majdouline was found guilty on Wednesday of murdering 14-year old Jaden Moodie who was kicked off his electric scooter and stabbed nine times by...
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Ivanka Trump met with Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier, nearly a decade before he compiled the infamous document to discuss expanding the family business into Russia, The Times of London reports. The Department of Justice’s...
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Alexander C. R. Hammond
Politics, Europe
We shall soon find out the fate of Brexit too.
On Thursday, voters in the United Kingdom will decide between two irreconcilably opposite visions for their country. It’s an election that won’t just...
David Axe
Security, Europe
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Key point: London hasn't been funding more fighters for a while and it will take time to rebuild the fleet.
The Royal Air Force in mid-2019 operates just 119 fighters, the lowest number in its...
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You won’t hear the UK’s largest Muslim group, the Muslim Council of Britain, come out and condemn the rampant problem of Muslim rape gangs that have plagued the UK. Nor will it say anything about Sadiq Khan’s London, which has become a...
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NUR-SULTAN (Sputnik) - Damascus has not received an invitation to the Turkish-UK-French-German summit on Syria, which will be held in Istanbul in February, Syria's Envoy to the United Nations in New York Bashar Jaafari said on Wednesday.
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More than 500 teachers and employees of Russian schools abroad from 30 countries, including the UK, India, Spain, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the US, Poland and Turkey, completed online courses on digital pedagogy and Russian...
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Opinion polls still have the Conservatives comfortably ahead of Labour before Thursday’s General Election. But polls have been known to get it wrong. Sputnik looks at three possible outcomes.
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BERLIN (Sputnik) - The German government will provide financial assistance to citizens who were affected by the recent collapse of UK travel company Thomas Cook, the government's press service said in a statement.
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As the UK general election campaign draws to a close, opinion polls are beginning to show the race narrowing. Despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson being comfortably in the lead throughout most of November and early December, a hung parliament...
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On the final day of the election campaign in the UK, opinion polls see the Conservative Party on 43% and Labour on 34%. Dr Ben Williams, a tutor in Politics and Political Theory at Salford University, shares his forecast for Thursday's vote.
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