GUY WALTERS: How the woke Guardian newspaper was founded with a fortune linked to cotton 

Of the many outraged voices amid the Black Lives Matter protests, few have been more prominent or persistent than The Guardian newspaper. As statues are torn down and long-established companies take to their corporate knees in apology, the paper and its columnists have been vociferous in calling on Britain and its institutions to acknowledge and … Read more

Abandoned farmhouse appears frozen in time with a newspaper from 1912 and unopened tin cans

Haunting images show the inside of a decaying farmhouse in the heart of the Northern Irish countryside full of old newspaper clippings, stopped clocks and intimate love letters.  Photographer and archivist Rebecca Brownlie was invited to visit the abandoned cottage near Cookstown, County Tyrone after the last of three brothers who lived in the farmhouse died. … Read more

Kady McDermott sets pulses racing as she flaunts her figure in a newspaper print bikini

She recently baffled fans as she revealed she and on/off beau Myles Barnett are back on.  But Kady McDermott put her romance drama behind her on Monday as she set pulses racing with a sizzling bikini snap shared on Instagram. The former Love Island star, 24, flaunted her figure in a tiny newspaper print bikini … Read more

Chinese state newspaper claims the US is a ‘failed state’ ruled by a ‘racist president’

Beijing’s state media has claimed that the US has crumbled into a ‘failed state’ amid the ongoing rallies across America and blasted Donald Trump as ‘a racist president’. Global Times, a major Chinese propaganda tabloid, slammed President Trump as ‘weak, irresponsible and incompetent’ and accused American politicians of blaming China for the protests erupting in … Read more

Billionaire boss of Le Monde newspaper was a teenage spy who hacked President Mitterrand’s mobile

Billionaire boss of Le Monde newspaper, 52, admits he was a teenage spy who once hacked the mobile phone of President Mitterrand for his security service bosses Xavier Niel, 52, was caught hacking Canal Plus aged 17 after quitting education The Directorate for Territorial Surveillance hired him to harvest data on Renault He also hacked … Read more

Moment two playful foxes in London steal newspaper from front doorstep as their mother ‘keeps watch’

Fox news! Moment two playful cubs steal newspaper from front doorstep as their mother ‘keeps watch’ A pair of foxes stole Kate Fisher’s newspaper from her doorstep in East London She woke up confused where her paper was and checked video doorbell footage Video showed mischievous cubs playing with it before dragging it in the bushes … Read more

Former Liverpool star Michael Robinson mourned in Spain with every newspaper dedicated to him

There was a clean sweep of front pages dedicated in their entirety to Michael Robinson’s death on Wednesday morning.  Marca titled theirs ‘The Day After,’ which had been the name of the pioneering football highlights show he presented for 15 years. Diario AS went simply with: ‘Michael Robinson, You’ll Never Walk Alone’. On any other … Read more

Chinese state newspaper labels US Secretary of State Pompeo ‘an enemy to world peace’

Beijing’s state media has blasted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as ‘an enemy to world peace’ after he warned that China will ‘pay a price for what they did’ over the country’s coronavirus cover-up. State-run Global Times responded to Pompeo’s remarks yesterday by suggesting that Pompeo ‘is poisoning US diplomacy with his personal hatred of … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s newspaper announcement

Yesterday morning we awoke to the usual fusillade of disturbing news in what is the worst crisis this country has experienced since the end of the Second World War. The shortage of personal protection equipment for our courageous medical staff is worsening. The testing fiasco continues, and the Government seems unlikely to meet its self-imposed … Read more

Poshest names in newspaper births columns become online hit

A collection of the ‘poshest’ names for newborns, whose births were announced in  newspaper columns, have become an unlikely online hit  Birth announcements, mainly appearing in The Telegraph, have been gathered from Twitter and collated by The Poke. And the parents – who range from a Prince and Princess to the independent candidate for the … Read more