N-word row ripping the BBC apart: Bitter battle rages between the old and the new guard

They are two men called David – but the contrast between them could hardly be more stark. A BBC ‘lifer’ of more than 30 years, David Jordan is the Corporation’s chief trouble-shooter tasked with upholding its editorial standards and investigating when Auntie gets it wrong. Meanwhile, Jamaican-born David Whitely – better known as Sideman – … Read more

Surrey wildfire still rages: Firefighters tell evacuated families they must NOT return home 

Firefighters battling a huge wildfire in Surrey have today told evacuated millionaire families not to return to their £2million homes after huge flames destroyed 150 acres of countryside.  Around 60 properties, home to around 100 people, have been evacuated from Heather Drive in Ascot, where homes are sold for around £2million, due to plumes of … Read more

Piers Morgan rages at lawyer for one of four Minneapolis cops charged with George Floyd’s murder

Piers Morgan has delivered a telling interview with the lawyer of one of the Minnepolis cops who stood by as George Floyd was killed.  The car crash interview saw lawyer Earl Gray slam down his laptop after arguing the innocence of his client Thomas Lane, 37, on Good Morning Britain today. Mr Gray is defending Lane … Read more

Tory civil war over Dominic Cummings rages as poll ratings dive

The Tory civil war over Dominic Cummings escalated again today as an MP accused his colleagues of ‘declaring no confidence’ in Boris Johnson by demanding his chief adviser quits. Devizes MP Danny Kruger accused ‘one wing’ of the party of ‘going bonkers’ and comparing the alleged lockdown breach to ‘the invasion of Suez’. But in … Read more

Coronavirus rages on: Worst day yet for new cases as WHO records 106,000 infected

Coronavirus rages on: Worst day yet for new cases as WHO records 106,000 people newly infected around the world It comes amid increased testing as the virus sweeps across tracts of the globe WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference on Wednesday: ‘We still have a long way to go in this pandemic’ … Read more