EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: After showbiz, is it politics for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? Sussexes apply to trademark name of their ‘sustainable travel’ project to lobby governments By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 4 September 2020 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 4 September 2020 Not content with being TV producers paid an estimated … Read more
Facebook will ban all new political advertisements the week before the election, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday as part of a series of moves to prevent interference in the November contest. ‘We’re going to block new political and issue ads during the final week of the campaign. It’s important that campaigns can run get out … Read more
Nearly 80% of Americans think that the speedy approval process of a coronavirus vaccine is driven by politics – NOT by proof that shots work A new poll found 78% of respondents fear the process for a COVID-19 vaccine approval more influenced by politics than science The response was largely bipartisan with 72% of Republicans … Read more
Meghan Markle will interview the co-founder of nonprofit newsroom The 19th about gender and diversity in the media at a virtual summit – after ‘reaching out’ and asking to be involved Duchess of Sussex, 38, will take part in a virtual summit next week Meghan Markle will interview The 19th* co-founder and CEO, Emily Ramshaw … Read more
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have banned discussing politics during their stay in the Caribbean in a final desperate bid to save their marriage. The pair are said to be taking the trip to work out their marital woes but are keen to keep other topics like Kanye’s presidency campaign off the table, according to a … Read more
MPs call on BBC not to axe lunchtime politics show Politics Live as corporation makes cuts across its news division Presenter Andrew Neil, said he may be ‘surplus to requirements’ at the BBC It has since emerged the BBC is reviewing the show and could be dropped But leading politicians were critical of any potential moves to … Read more
Bishops have defended slamming Dominic Cummings’ 260-mile lockdown trip and insisted politics and religion do mix amid fury at their ‘meddling’ in the scandal. Rev John Inge, Bishop of Worcester, led the defence of the clergy as he said it was ‘a fact’ that the two are linked. He was among a number of religious … Read more
A new editorial published by a prestigious medical journal in defense of the CDC is urging Americans to vote for a president who won’t let partisan politics influence public health decisions. The Lancet published an editorial Saturday which criticized the Trump administration’s treatment of the CDC and its advice during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘The Administration … Read more
Female comedians are taking politics to TikTok amid the coronavirus pandemic – including a drunk Donald Trump and storytime with Boris Johnson. In a series of TikTok videos sweeping the web, women can be seen offering uncanny lip syncs of different political figures, but all with the same voice – a presidential moan or a condescending … Read more
Andrew Gwynne, Labour MP for Denton & Reddishwatching PMQs with one-year-old grandson Lyle It was an historic moment as British MPs sat in a ‘virtual Parliament’ for the first time ever as the coronavirus pandemic rages in Britain. But politicians taking part in Prime Minister’s Questions from the safety and comfort of their own homes … Read more