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The broadcaster’s former friendships with convicted rapist Russell Brand , and David Walliams who has been accused of (and denies) grooming and sexual harassment, have put him at the uncomfortable epicentre of a…
Read moreWe know this largely because they never stop telling us. The " cognitive elite ", to use their favoured phrase, are entitled to shape our future without our say-so. When Elon Musk goes hiring, he wants "super-high-IQ…
Read moreThe meeting comes as David Cameron issued an extraordinary warning, urging Mr Burnham not to drag Britain back into a debate about EU membership. So, would you support Britain rejoining the EU? Vote now and find out the…
Read moreA team of scientists from University of Delhi and Harvard University made the discoveries after five years of fieldwork, identifying the frogs as members of the Jingophrys group. Among them is Jingophrys tanogogo - or…
Read moreThe US president hoped the creator of Power Slap, a face-slapping league which one of the world's leading neurologists called "a sport inconsistent with the intelligence of humans", might be the right man to deliver his…
Read moreFor me, it conjures up a withdrawal from the world. A life of slippers, feet up, hobbies, a consignment to the gentle, unthreatening slopes of go-slow. But I will never retire. I would find it profoundly depressing . I…
Read moreBoth are said to have become so powerful, and were so lucrative for broadcasters, that their behaviour went unchallenged. The children's author and TV star, 55, has denied claims that he groomed schoolgirls, sexually…
Read moreIn a social media post she said was 'really hard to write', she said she felt inspired to speak out following Russell Brand's rape conviction and reports that followed the next day about David Walliams allegedly preying…
Read moreA spokesperson for the force said the women "had made off from a suspect after he approached and grabbed at them", with the arrested man remaining in police custody. Prof Tim Thornton, the university's deputy…
Read moreFootage showed the 61-year-old leaving the store without paying, before jumping on his bike and placing the giant primate model on his lap. He was jailed for one year and 11 months at Ipswich Magistrates' Court on…
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