Tories’ lost hope: Britian’s Labour Party on a roll as Conservatives brace for resounding defeat
Facing predictions of the worst result in the party’s history, the Conservatives turned their focus to damage limitation, saying they needed to hang on to enough seats to provide an effective opposition to a Labour government.
Black and heartbroken: When Crudup wrote the song that became Elvis’ first rock’n’roll hit, he’d actually invented a new genre but he died poor
When Crudup and four of his children arrived in New York, they learned the deal was off, according to the book Between Midnight and Day written by Crudup’s final manager, Dick Waterman. They were told a settlement would cost the company more money than a potential lawsuit would yield. And suing meant “going after an old white widow who lives in Florida,” Waterman wrote. “We wouldn’t have a chance.” “It just ain’t meant to be,” Crudup told Waterman. “Naked I come into this world and naked I shall leave it.”
While pensioners are a nation’s revered skills reservoir, unresponsive Ugandan agencies are spiriting them to early graves
In the past retired members of the NSSF and other SSFs have suffered immensely because of the neglect mooted at them by the socially-insensible, socially insensitive, socially unresponsive and socially-irresponsible SSFs, which tend to be mechanistic in their interaction with their members. But what does it mean for an SSF to be to be socially-insensible, socially-insensitive, socially-unresponsive and socially-irresponsible?
How a poor father wowed by $40,000 payout worked out a plan that propelled daughters Venus and Serena world’s greatest tennis players
On one occasion when he refused to leave the practice court with his daughters, they broke his nose, jaw and fingers, and knocked out several of his teeth. Richard got home with his daughters, opened his diary, and wrote: “After today, history will remember the ‘toothless’ man as a monument of courage.”
PMI: Kenya’s private sector activity shrinks in June as a result of cost-of-living crisis, protests
The Stanbic Bank Kenya Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 47.2 in June from 51.8 in May. Readings below 50.0 signal contraction.
Biden and Trump deadlocked in poll even after former’s poor performance in presidential debate
While nationwide surveys give important signals on American support for political candidates, just a handful of competitive states typically tilt the balance in the US Electoral College, which ultimately decides who wins a presidential election.
Kenya mourns a giant whose death coincides with a youth revolution with bearing on African politics
As Kamukunji MP, Maina Wanjigi helped small-scale and petty traders start the Gikomba Market and the Shauri Moyo craftspeople yards that have evolved into key subsectors of the national economy as they have been replicated in other major towns.
Pressure on President Biden to ditch re-election bid rises as wary Democrats worry they’ve given Trump victory
There are 25 Democratic members of the House of Representatives preparing to call for Biden to step aside if he seems shaky in coming days, according to one House Democratic aide. A second House Democratic aide said moderate House Democrats in competitive districts – often called “frontliners” – were getting hammered with questions in their districts this week.
