January 2018

Lee Fancourt is the fastest man to travel 4,300 miles through Europe on a bike Via: Lee Fancourt: Tributes pour in for record-breaking endurance cyclist after death

Comments come following President's retweets of Britain First posts and mutual criticism exchanged between the pair Via: Sadiq Khan compares Donald Trump's language to 'the rhetoric of Isis'

The Foreign Secretary praises the US President for 'getting stuck in' and says he does not deserve 'infantile denigration' Via: Boris Johnson says UK should welcome Donald Trump and give administration 'respect and recognition'

Carolyn Fairbairn hits out at 'too much ideology, too little urgency' in negotiations so far Via: CBI chief warns Theresa May that UK must stay in EU customs union after Brexit to protect British businesses

Office for Product Safety and Standards will manage responses to large-scale product recalls and identify risks Via: Government starts new Office for Product Safety and Standards to manage recalls after Grenfell warnings

US vice-president, visiting Egypt, tries to reassure key Arab ally over Israeli-Palestinian impasseUS vice-president Mike Pence has told Egypt’s leader that the US would support a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians if the two sides agreed to it, seeking to reassure a key Arab ally over Donald Trump’s decision Read more

Relatives of the suffragette have written a choral work for Radio 3Relatives of the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst will next month premiere a choral work commissioned by the BBC to mark 100 years since women won the right to vote.The writer and women’s rights campaigner Helen Pankhurst and composer Lucy Read more

The dismantling of freedom begins with attacks on unfettered media and an independent judiciaryNothing ages so badly as visions of the future. When the fall of the Berlin Wall was followed by the implosion of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama celebrated by publishing his bestseller, The End of History and Read more