Colin Powell’s life was a classic American success story. He was born in Harlem to Jamaican parents, grew up in the South Bronx, and graduated from City College of New York. It was there, through the ROTC, that was the foundation to
What is the carbon tax? The quick answer is that the carbon tax is a tax regime that makes it more expensive to emit greenhouses gasses that contribute to global warming, like methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. The longer answer is
Eight million undocumented immigrants’ path to citizenship hopes to be included in the Democrat’s upcoming budget reconciliation bill were thwarted by a Senate parliamentarian ruling, a staff attorney who reviews chamber rules. But there’s been a wealth of enthusiastic support from the
In a recent press conference, Secretary of State Antony Blinken – along with his counterparts from Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – advised Iran that “time is running short” for them to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal agreement that put
On the 6th of August, Ofgem’s latest price cap was announced and now millions of Brits face not only a soaring rise in electricity bills but ultimately a winter crisis. The cap is put in place in order to limit the price
A regular Friday meeting with constituents at the Belfairs Methodist Church, in Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex turned into a tragedy when Sir David Amess was stabbed to death. The suspect, 25-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, lunged at Sir David as he met voters for
When you do building work in your home things around you usually get very bad before they get better. The moment comes when you have had enough of eating meals cooked in the microwave in the spare bedroom and washing dishes in
In 2018, the British financial industry was the source of over a third of all the tax revenues, either directly through taxes paid by companies or indirectly through the PAYE of employees working in finance. When the UK was part of the
30,000 new jobs are being created in the UK with investors pledging £9.7 billion of new foreign investment. These low carbon sector deals, or better known as green energy projects, include investments in sectors like sustainable homes, wind and hydrogen energy and
Last week, the Latvian government took the hard decision of going back into lockdown after opening entirely in the summer. The two opposing sides for and against the vaccines are coming to the contrast observed in most countries in Central and Eastern
A golden statue portraying the late soprano Maria Callas was erected under the Acropolis and close to the Roman theatre of Herodes Atticus. There Maria Callas, at the height of her career, performed for the Greek audience in 1957. It was her
On 20 October, Boris Johnson and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made a free trade agreement. Since then, a call has been made for further evidence regarding the deal to be re-opened. The House of Lords International Agreements Committee called for
