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Labour’s Lisa Nandy is at the centre of a new row over ‘wokery’ after praising a report which suggested replacing Britain’s Armed Forces with a ‘gender-balanced human security’ corps. The Shadow Foreign Secretary faced ridicule after helping to launch a report by the Open Labour group which said the main job of the forces should be to ‘dampen down violence rather than intervene on one side or the other’. Ms Nandy, 41, said she was ‘inspired’ by the pamphlet, which included the argument that that ‘the UK is no longer a great power’ and cited ‘countries like Scandinavians’ as a model for the UK’s role in the world. She told last month’s launch: ‘I hear it a lot on the Tory benches, this idea of a country that ruled the waves.  'Rule Britannia… I think that’s given way to a nostalgia rooted in the history of the Second World War that somehow says that we’re a small island nation that goes out punching above its weight, without ever really stopping to ask why on earth it is that we’re

Boris Johnson is set to compel visitors from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine for ten days, The Mail on Sunday understands. Sources said the Prime Minister favoured a more targeted approach rather than making all air passengers quarantine. Travellers from Brazil and South Africa, plus their neighbouring countries, will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels to quarantine for ten days under plans being discussed by Ministers. Mr Johnson is expected to chair a Covid-O committee to finalise the measures tomorrow. Passengers will have to pay for the mandatory hotel stays. Boris Johnson is set to compel visitors from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine for ten days, The Mail on Sunday understands. Pictured: Crowds at London's Heathrow Airport Meanwhile, spot checks for quarantining travellers from all countries will be ‘ramped up’ this week with visits to make sure they are home.  The checks would be carried out by the police or Public Health England officials, a Government

A Mayor was rushed out of a City Hall in Washington state after protesters ripped down an American flag before storming the building during a rally against plans to clean-up a homeless encampment.  Mayor Seth Fleetwood of Bellingham was escorted out of the building to safety Friday morning when a group of around 20 people entered the main lobby, according to KIRO7.   Bellingham Police arrived and asked the protesters to leave.  Bellingham Police Lt. Claudia Murphy told The Bellingham Herald the demonstrators left when they were told to, no one was injured and nothing was damaged inside the building.   Protesters had gathered outside City Hall to protest against the city's plans to move a temporary homeless encampment, known as Camp 210, off the lawns of the hall and the Bellingham Public Library.  Officials planned to clean up the site Friday morning and move the homeless campers 25 feet away. The encampment was first erected in the area in November to draw attention to the lack of

The children’s tsar has said that primary school pupils must be allowed back in class after the February half-term – and last night backed calls to prioritise Covid jabs for teachers. Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, spoke out as an exclusive poll for The Mail on Sunday found almost two-thirds of parents want children to return to school next month. The poll of 1,002 parents by Mumsnet also found that 75 per cent of parents believed that the school closures had been harmful to children’s education. Forty per cent of parents of private school pupils said youngsters are actively engaged in five or more hours per day in school work, compared with just 12 per cent of those at state schools. The poll of 1,002 parents by Mumsnet also found that 75 per cent of parents believed that the school closures had been harmful to children’s education Nine out of ten parents said children’s social lives had suffered, with 78 per cent saying school closures have been harmful for pupils’ ment

National Guard members began leaving Washington D.C. on Saturday as angered governors recall troops amid controversy over the conditions they suffered while protecting the U.S. Capitol during Joe Biden's inauguration. There were 25,000 troops stationed in D.C. on Wednesday amid fears of a repeat of the violence seen on January 6 when a MAGA mob stormed federal building. Up to 7,000 service members are expected to remain in the Capitol until February 6 as concerns remain that Biden's first State of the Union address will be targeted that week.  Of those, 5,000 troops are predicted to stay until mid-March, Guard spokesperson Maj. Matthew Murphy told Politico.  Yet at least eight governors, including Florida's Ron DeSantis and Chris Sununu in New Hampshire, have already pulled back troops, angered at their treatment.  Both appeared on Fox News to slam the decision to keep the troops in D.C. after service members were seen sleeping in a freezing parking lot on their breaks, and

In the 43 years since her body was discovered in the seedy hotel room she shared with Sex Pistols punk Sid Vicious, countless questions and theories have swirled around the death of 20-year-old Nancy Spungen. Now a new six-part series about the infamous rockers from director Danny Boyle is set to revive interest in the notorious case, which ended with Vicious being charged with his girlfriend’s murder – but dying of a heroin overdose before it came to court. The Oscar-winner may not be the first to address the mystery, but there remains one detail that is often overlooked by those telling the story of the band that excited and revulsed 1970s Britain in equal measure: a letter that Vicious wrote to Nancy’s grieving mother just a few weeks after her killing. Deborah Spungen, a middle-class mum from an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, expected to be upset by the correspondence from the violence-obsessed drug addict alleged to have slid a 7in hunting knife into her daughter’s stomach.  But

Britons today ignored the government's 'stay at home' message as they formed huge queues for coffees and flocked to parks as the sun came out. Walkers, runners and cyclists were out and about in Hyde Park, central London, and Greenwich Park in the south-east of the capital. Officers from the Metropolitan Police kept a close eye on them as they were out on the beat in pairs wearing face coverings. But in Clapham pavements were clogged up with young adults either queuing outside coffee shops, walking to the Common or just standing around. And at Bradgate Park in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, the car park was teaming with vehicles as hikers headed into the woods. It comes as a scientist advising the Government on coronavirus called for tighter lockdown restrictions than the first one in March. Professor Susan Michie, director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL, also said she was in favour of paying people from low-income households to self-isolate. Yet analysis by O