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The numbers are in, and Facebook has revealed that ads linked to a Russian agency accused of helping to swing Britain’s Brexit referendum cost a massive 97 cents! Yes, reader, you read that figure correctly.
- Smoking is bad for your love life, study suggests
The assumption, long promoted by the tobacco industry, that puffing on a cigarette gives you sex appeal has now been debunked by a study revealing just the opposite. Bristol University research shows non-smokers are actually more attractive. - Russia spent less than a dollar on Facebook ads to ‘influence’ Brexit referendum
If Theresa May is certain Russia is ‘meddling’ in British democracy she obviously knows some seriously cheap advertisers. It just emerged Russia spent 73p ($0.97) on ads to influence the Brexit referendum. How much influence can you buy for 73p? - $1bn glass box: A monument to the UK-US special relationship
The special relationship may have taken a battering lately, but Washington is investing in London. It’s opening a new $1 billion glass box next to the River Thames, otherwise known as the city’s new US embassy. - Football stars at Russian Embassy in London predict 'fabulous' FIFA World Cup (VIDEO)
International football players and managers gathered at the Russian Embassy in London on Tuesday to hear about preparations for next year’s FIFA World Cup. The competition’s official football, a Telstar with a first-of-its-kind technological chip inside, was also on display.
- Surgeon admits burning his initials on patients’ organs
A surgeon who left his initials on his patients’ livers has pled guilty to two charges of assault by beating. - The gas that came in from the cold: Britain turns to sanctioned Russian energy to avoid big freeze
With gas supplies crippled amid a freezing winter by the shutdown of a major pipeline, the UK has apparently turned to a Russian project targeted by US sanctions, with reports indicating that a deal was struck for a shipment of gas by the end of December. - Theresa May suffers first Brexit defeat as Parliament backs 'meaningful vote'
Theresa May has suffered her first defeat over Brexit in Parliament after a majority of MPs backed an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill. The amendment allows for MPs to have a “meaningful vote” on the final Brexit deal. - Smoking is bad for your love life, study suggestsThe assumption, long promoted by the tobacco industry, that puffing on a cigarette gives you sex appeal has now been debunked by a study revealing just the opposite. Bristol University research shows non-smokers are actually more attractive.
- $1bn glass box: A monument to the UK-US special relationshipThe special relationship may have taken a battering lately, but Washington is investing in London. It’s opening a new $1 billion glass box next to the River Thames, otherwise known as the city’s new US embassy.
- Spend a dollar on Facebook ads and swing a Brexit referendum … and you get change!The numbers are in, and Facebook has revealed that ads linked to a Russian agency accused of helping to swing Britain’s Brexit referendum cost a massive 97 cents! Yes, reader, you read that figure correctly.
- Football stars at Russian Embassy in London predict 'fabulous' FIFA World Cup (VIDEO)International football players and managers gathered at the Russian Embassy in London on Tuesday to hear about preparations for next year’s FIFA World Cup. The competition’s official football, a Telstar with a first-of-its-kind technological chip inside, was also on display.
- Building firms that installed cladding on Grenfell-style blocks rehired to remove it
Building companies that installed unsafe cladding on social housing blocks are now being paid millions to remove it after the Grenfell disaster. One fire survivor branded the contracts “absolutely ludicrous.” - Russia spent less than a dollar on Facebook ads to ‘influence’ Brexit referendumIf Theresa May is certain Russia is ‘meddling’ in British democracy she obviously knows some seriously cheap advertisers. It just emerged Russia spent 73p ($0.97) on ads to influence the Brexit referendum. How much influence can you buy for 73p?
- Failed UKIP candidate fled to Pakistan to avoid jail for racial abuse - Judge
A former UKIP candidate has fled to Pakistan and has been sentenced to jail in absentia, for racially abusing a man who tried to help her. Sam Naz, 34, branded a Tesco worker a “f***ing foreigner” after he tried to rescue her in a car park in east London in 2015. - Theresa May uses deceptive stats to claim homelessness has fallen under Tories (VIDEO)
Prime Minister Theresa May has rattled off misleading statistics on homelessness in Britain despite the Tories being criticized for using the figures in the past. She claimed that “statutory homelessness” is down by 50 percent under her party’s rule. - MPs get yet another pay rise... while public sector pay cap stubbornly remains
MPs will soon enjoy a 1.8 percent pay rise, bringing their incomes to over £77,000 ($102,778). It’s their fourth pay rise in two years. Meanwhile, pay for public-sector workers - nurses, teachers and firemen - remains capped at 1 percent. Merry Christmas.
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