The Conservative government spent more than £130m on IT and data systems for the scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, which will never be used, the Observer can reveal. Digital tools needed to put the forced removal programme into effect made up the second-largest chunk of the £715m spent in little over two years,…
Lee’s legacy Sarabande, the arts charity founded by Alexander McQueen (Lee to his friends), sets up shop at Selfridges, Oxford Street from 20 January to 23 March. For sale at the residency will be art, fashion, jewellery, sculpture, photography and craft pieces, from a limited-edition Thom Browne shirt to ceramic sex toys. There will also…
‘It was us versus everybody’: DeMeco Ryans on questionable officiating Houston head coach DeMeco Ryans comments on the controversial officiating in the Texans Divisional Round game vs. the Chiefs. Sports Seriously Some teams embrace the “us versus everybody” mentality as a battle cry. The Houston Texans took it as a chance to cry the traditional…
A Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a woman in a horrific act of domestic violence in a home south of Brisbane. After being treated by paramedics at the scene in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Saturday morning, the 34-year-old woman was rushed to the Royal Brisbane…
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, kicked off her bid to lead Canada by boasting: “Donald Trump doesn’t like me very much” in a campaign video that quickly went viral. For Freeland, who led Canada’s re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade agreement (Nafta) with the United States and Mexico during Trump’s first term,…