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Kent is steeped in history. For hundreds of years, houses such as Hever Castle and Penshurst Place have hosted power politics and palace intrigue. More recently, they attract visitors from all over the world to see the haunts of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. They should be welcoming more people today, but they are not. The … Read more
Vocal anti-China MP Tom Tugendhat says a ‘pretty sophisticated hacker’ is trying to impersonate him Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Committee says he’s being targeted by a hacker Tom Tugendhat warned followers to be cautious of emails that claim to be him The Kent MP faced backlash from China last week after accusing it of … Read more
Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat accuses ‘tyrannical’ China of ‘falsifying’ coronavirus death statistics as Beijing hits back at ‘dangerous unwarranted accusations’ Tom Tugendhat said Chinese government ‘deliberately falsified the data’ on virus He claimed ‘survival of the regime’ was placed ‘over the interests of the people’ But Beijing hit back and said such … Read more
It was Vladimir Lenin – one of Xi Jinping’s favourite philosophers – who famously said capitalists would end up selling the very rope the communists would use to hang them. And for once, the Russian revolutionary is exactly right. We’re lucky to live in a country known for fairness and the rule of law. Our judicial … Read more
Scientists have long warned that China’s live food markets are a breeding ground for disease, epidemics and pandemics – spreading infection from animals to people. These public abattoirs were behind the SARS outbreak in 2002 and have now produced Covid-19. Yet the Beijing government has done nothing to abolish these ‘wet’ markets that threaten so … Read more