It’s GRAYGATE! How Boris Johnson’s Partygate tormentor Sue Gray is now enmeshed in her own row – as it is revealed she tried to prevent Rishi Sunak from vetoing Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial new trans law A leaked email shows that she said in Whitehall hat she found veto plan ‘difficult’ The Bill made it easier to change gender and was backed […]

Bogota, Colombia: Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch – descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population. The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to 3 tons, have spread […]

Two men jailed for killing teenager, 19, when a fight erupted outside a nightclub on a Bank Holiday weekend as the victim’s mother says she is ‘broken beyond repair’ Steven Thompson was killed in August 2021 following a dispute with three men Leon Wildgoose and Dylan Ford earlier today pleaded guilty to manslaughter  Two men have been jailed for killing […]

Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: This story contains images and references to deceased people. Prison healthcare whistleblowers have accused the companies operating the nation’s biggest jails of a culture of medical neglect and cover-up that has cruelled attempts to bring down the number of Indigenous people dying in custody. Doctors, nurses, experts and victims’ families have described […]

Watch as driver who fled scene of car crash is caught hiding up a tree after being tracked down by police dog and drone A video shows a man being found hiding in a tree by a police dog and drone Read more: Pitbull owner arrested after dogs mauled man, 81, to death A hapless man who was running away from […]

Paris: The mayor of Paris is refusing to install air conditioning for athletes competing in the 2024 Olympics, insisting it will threaten her city’s climate targets. Over the last few months, concerns have been growing among some federations and athletes over the lack of air-conditioned apartments at the Athletes’ Village in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, where 14,500 athletes and […]

MANCHESTER bomber Salman Abedi was free to kill 22 people after MI5 let him slip through the net,a damning report has found. The terrorist murdered innocent children and adults and left hundreds of others injured at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017. Abedi also died in the horrific attack, while his ISIS fanatic brother Hashem was later jailed for life […]

They’ve been at the brrrrr-ylcreem! Contestants show off their best efforts for the annual hair-freezing contest in frosty -20C temperatures The competition is held at the Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs in Yukon Participants jump into waters before sculpting wet locks into inventive shapes Thrill-seekers from around the world are showing off bizarre styles for a hair freezing contest in Canada […]

Credit:Illustration: Jim Pavlidis To submit a letter to The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email. TAXATION A modest reform and the hysteria sets in It is generally accepted that our current system of taxation, with its heavy reliance on personal income tax and […]