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Female troops told to eat twice as much and get at least seven hours sleep if they want to match male colleagues in new guidelines
The Ministry of Defence has issued new guidance advising female soldiers to eat roughly twice as much, train harder and get at least seven hours of sleep in order to cope with the physical demands of frontline military roles. The move follows the opening of all combat units — including the Parachute Regiment and the…
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This is for Lindisfarne! An England World Cup victory over Norway would avenge ancient Viking massacre, Holy Islanders say
Residents of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, off the Northumberland coast, are hoping England will beat Norway in their upcoming World Cup match, framing it as symbolic revenge for a Viking raid more than 1,200 years ago. The mood has been stoked by the Norwegian squad’s embrace of “Viking chic” this tournament — striker Erling Haaland’s…
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Jessica Alba posts multiple bikini photos from Italian vacation with boyfriend Danny Ramirez
Jessica Alba has shared a series of holiday photos on Instagram from a trip to Tuscany with her boyfriend, actor Danny Ramirez. The 45-year-old “Fantastic Four” star posted a carousel captioned “Ciao, Italy”, featuring several shots of herself relaxing in various bikinis, including one image in which Ramirez kisses her shoulder as the pair lie…
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Thousands of ‘tagged’ criminals are not even fitted with the electronic devices, as bombshell report warns Labour’s soft-justice plan set to ‘increase risk to public safety’
The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that serious problems with electronic tagging are putting the public at risk, casting doubt over Labour’s plans to reduce prison sentences in favour of community punishments. The government intends to cut the number of criminals sent to jail and rely heavily on tagging to monitor offenders in the…
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DHS plans costly crackdown on states that don’t cooperate on election security
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to withhold billions of dollars in preparedness grant funding from states that decline to adopt a set of new election-security requirements. The conditions, attached to more than $1 billion available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Grant Programme, would require measures such as voter…
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Make voting compulsory – with a £10 fine for those that don’t cast ballot, says lefty think-tank
The left-wing think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a report calling for voting in national elections to be made compulsory, with a £10 fine imposed on those who fail to cast a ballot. The IPPR argues that Britain faces a “crisis of pride” and growing disillusionment with the political system, and…
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Stinking streets, missed collections and a maggot ‘apocalypse’: Chaos of the kerbside food bins rollout 100 days after England’s new waste rules began
Food waste collection schemes across England have descended into disorder 100 days after new household waste rules came into force, with residents reporting missed collections, foul-smelling bins and what some have called a “maggot apocalypse” during hot weather. The rules, which took effect on 31 March, were intended to standardise recycling and waste collection nationwide,…
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Pressure builds on Europe’s biggest port to be greener
The Port of Rotterdam, the largest freight port in Europe and a major fossil-fuel, energy and chemicals hub, is facing growing pressure to accelerate its shift away from oil, coal and gas. A lawsuit brought by the environmental group Advocates for the Future argues that the Port of Rotterdam Authority is not doing enough to…
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Just 1 in 10 Ivy League trustees are Republican, Yale has none, report finds
A new report from the Buckley Institute, entitled “The Echo Chamber on Top: Governance in the Ivy League,” has found that only about one in ten trustees at Ivy League universities identifies as Republican, with Yale’s governing body having no registered Republicans at all. The findings have intensified debate over ideological diversity at America’s most…