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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Andrew Marr Slates 'Ludicrous, Offensive And Unpatriotic' Brexit Backlash To New EU Deal
Andrew Marr has torn into the 'Brexit right' who have described the UK's new EU deal as a 'betrayal'. Prime minister Keir Starmer has said the agreement – which ensure closer ties with the bloc – will be 'good for our jobs, good for our bills and good for our borders'. But the Tories have called it a Brexit 'surrender', while Reform UK's Sarah Pochin dubbed it a 'complete betrayal of Brexit' and Boris Johnson described it as a 'sellout'. Their remarks were completely dismissed on Tonight with Andrew Marr, when the LBC presenter said: 'I don't get hot under the collar about much, but I'm getting hot this evening. 'It is at the ludicrous, offensive and unpatriotic language that's being thrown around by the Brexit right against this new deal with the EU.' He said most of this rage comes down to Starmer's decision to extend the same fishing deal first struck by Johnson for another 12 years. 'This is a deal that should make the whole country better off, bring good industrial jobs, give us better energy security and in the shops, more choice and lower prices,' Marr said. 'It will make it easier – we hope – to get through passport controls and to do deals to help combat illegal migration. 'So – betrayal? Fishing accounts for 0.03% of our output and the deal will anyway make it easier for British fishermen to sell their produce abroad. 'Talking about surrender and betrayal is the language not of deal making but of war and that's deranged. We're not at war with the European Union and France, we have been negotiating with them.' 'The Brexiters have cost our economy – that is you and me – around 4% of our GDP according to the Office of Budget Responsibility.' Comparing the war analogies used by the Brexit right to childhood comics, he said: 'Looking around me this evening, it seems to me that many of my fellow Britons haven't grown up by a day.' Andrew Marr is "hot under the collar at the ludicrous, offensive & unpatriotic language that's being thrown around by the brexit right... talking about surrender & betrayal... is the language of war, & that's deranged..."# — Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) May 19, 2025 Victoria Derbyshire Trolls Richard Holden Over Business Support For UK-EU Deal: 'Are They All Wrong?' Labour Minister's Response To Boris Johnson's Takedown Of New EU Deal Is Dripping In Sarcasm Boris Johnson Criticised The UK-EU Deal And People Reacted Exactly As You'd Expect
News.com.au
02-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Nagi Maehashi and Brooke Bellamy to face-off at Award's Night
The time honoured tradition of passing down a family recipe took a vicious hit this week when best-selling cookbook author and blogger Nagi Maehashi called in the lawyers, inturn setting an internet mob after local rival Brooke Bellamy of Brooki Bakehouse. Hours after RecipeTin Eats founder Maehashi accused Bellamy's book publisher Penguin Random House of copyright infringement allegations, a publishing storm erupted over who owned the rights to two recipes, one for caramel slice, the other for European classic baklava. What Maehashi would later call a simple 'business dispute' others claimed was a more strategic strike against an online rival whose cookbook, Bake with Brooki, has been nominated against Maehashi's own cookbook, Tonight with Nagi Maehashi, at next week's Australian Book Industry Awards. By Thursday night the temperature on the stoush had dropped to a simmer when Maehashi posted an appeal for calm to Instagram, which had the effect of restoking media interest. She has 1.6 million of them on Instagram and 3.8 million of them on Facebook – an army. 'Please stop the trolling. Now I know I've made serious allegations but this does not justify the personal attacks that I've seen online against Brooke Bellamy. I do not support it and I'm asking you to stop,' Maehashi posted on Thursday. 'Fundamentally at the end of the day we're talking recipes and this is a business dispute. These are allegations I have made against Penguin, a corporate. Allegations made by my company. so we've gotta be respectful about this. It's the RecipeTin way.' By Friday 'the RecipeTin way' was also under attack after Maehashi's critics pointed out the businesswoman, a graduate of academically selective North Sydney Girls High who has a Bachelor of Commerce from UTS, had spent 17 years in corporate finance before starting her online food blog in 2012 and knows a thing or two about the rules of engagement in a corporate war. From the RecipeTins' founder's left flank had emerged a new force – rival chefs and publishers quick to point out Maehashi's own business model is built on her modification of other people's recipes. Luke Mangan's butter chicken, Matt Moran's pork tenderloin with creamy marsala sauce and Thai beef curry (which he credits inspiration to Indigenous actor Meyne Wyatt), Nigel Slater's creamy chicken in white wine sauce, Yotam Ottolenghi's cauliflower salad, his middle eastern chickpea salad, his green bean salad, his roasted broccolini with tahini sauce, Jamie Oliver's chicken milk seriously delish, Nigella Lawson's noodle salad with creamy sesame peanut dressing, and so it goes. Surely Maehashi sees how fraught it can be to call out others over similar recipes. This week Mangan revealed he was peeved Maehashi, who provided a footnote acknowledging his involvement online for his butter chicken recipe but not in her printed book, hadn't provided a link to his website. Maehashi's book features the disclaimer that efforts were made to contact copyright holders. Mangan's statement hinted he felt the blogger might not have tried that hard. Celebrity cook Adam Liaw, who has a background as an intellectual property lawyer, scoffed at the suggestion you could own a recipe. 'Copyright doesn't protect the recipe itself. It protects the publication of the exact same written form of that recipe,' he told media. 'There is no Mr Bolognese in Bologna, everything is built on what came before. Food is a collective endeavour.' From the RecipeTin Eats' founder's right flank on Friday emerged a new threat – search engine optimisation specialists eager to point out Maehashi's success lies not in the online publication of recipes or in the recipes themselves, not even in her cute pictures of her romping in her garden with her golden retriever Dozer, but in her canny talent for adding instructions to her recipes that optimises her content online and lands her at the top of Google's search engine. 'She's almost always at the top of a Google search for a commonly searched for recipe,' said one, 'and that's where she makes her real money.' While Maehashi's recipes are free to her platform followers, the ads embedded in her posts are generating a fortune which helped pay for a $7 million home in Hunter's Hill in 2023, which she swiftly returned to market the following year – $420,000 in stamp duty be damned. Meanwhile, having denied Maehashi's allegations of plagiarising her caramel slice and baklava recipes, Bellamy, who is pregnant, has retreated to take care of her young family and business. 'The past 24 hours have been extremely overwhelming,' she said in a statement. 'I have had media outside my home and business and have been attacked online. It has been deeply distressing for my colleagues and my young family. 'While baking has leeway for creativity, much of it is a precise science and is necessarily formulaic. Many recipes are bound to share common steps and measures: if they don't, they simply don't work. 'My priority right now is to ensure the welfare of the fantastic team at Brooki Bakehouse and that of my family.' Penguin is standing by Bellamy, say sources. Perhaps if Maehashi hopes to calm the matter, she could start by taking down her original April 29 Facebook post, which by Friday had 1.2k comments and been shared 900 times. Footnote: A quick search reveals the caramel slice has been around for decades and has its origins in Scotland's shortbread biscuit created in the 12th century, though the caramel and chocolate layers appear to have been added a mere 50 years ago. It first appeared in its present form in an Australian Women's Weekly cookbook in the eighties. Baklava is more ancient and has its origins either in ancient Rome or Greece or the 8th century cookhouses of the Assyrians of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey, a people you'd only accuse of plagiarism at your own risk. How times have changed.
BreakingNews.ie
27-04-2025
- Business
- BreakingNews.ie
Varadkar says US is no longer 'reliable political and economic partner' to Europe
Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said it is "no longer the case" that the US is a "reliable political and economic partner" to Europe. He also said the EU should be "generous" to the UK and "willing to make concessions" in the current negotiations as "Europe needs Britain" as a security and defence partner. Advertisement Mr Varadkar made the comments on LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr. He also told Mr Marr there would be "no harm in dusting down the old backstop" agreement between the EU and UK to "give a boost to the British economy". Asked if he believes that the UK needs to turn back towards the EU and away from the USA, Mr Varadkar replied: "Yes, I do in short. Since 1945 we have had a de facto Pax Americana across Europe and the United States, where we could rely on the US as a security partner, sheltering under their umbrella in many ways, and also as a reliable political and economic partner. "That's no longer the case. Even if in four years' time, a moderate Republican or a Democrat is elected, I don't think we can be certain that things are going to change back to the way they were before. The memory of the Second World War is now so long ago that things are different, and it creates a decision point for the UK as to whether it wants to go it alone, which in many ways was the Brexit philosophy, a global Britain trying to form alliances with almost anyone, anywhere around the world, to one that sees itself at the heart of European security and as part of the European economy. And I really hope that's a decision that the UK takes." Advertisement On areas he believes the EU and UK could have a stronger relationship, Mr Varadkar said: "I think there's definitely a lot to be said on a defence and security agreement. There's a lot to be said and a lot happening in relation to aligning our veterinary rules, which would be very helpful in relation to Northern Ireland in particular, in further reducing the remaining checks between Britain and Northern Ireland. "I think there would be no harm in dusting down the old backstop, the agreement negotiated between me and Theresa May and the European Union at the time, and that allowed for free movement of goods and dynamic alignment of regulations. That would, I think, give a boost to the British economy. "What the UK needs more than anything else is economic growth, and that would help with that, but I don't think that it would ever be realistic to expect the United Kingdom just to be a rule taker. If the UK is going to align its regulations and standards it would have to have a meaningful input into that."
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Sadiq Khan's battle plan to foil Heathrow's expansion
If Rachel Reeves is to successfully nudge Heathrow's much trailed, much debated, still entirely hypothetical third runway a step further, she has a long list of hurdles to get over first. Were Boris Johnson still the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, his 5ft 9 frame might be one of them – he once said he would lie down in front of the bulldozers should work on the runway ever begin. Google has Sir Sadiq Khan at just 5ft 5, but he is no less of an obstacle to the Chancellor's grand plans. The Mayor of London said on Wednesday that he would 'use any tool in the toolkit to stop a third runway happening' and now seems poised to lead a Labour rebellion against Reeves' plan to expand the airport. Why? First, there's the 'conurbation next to Heathrow', which Sir Sadiq says is the biggest in Europe. 'The numbers of people affected by noise just with two runways is more than the numbers affected by Paris, Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam, Munich, Frankfurt and Madrid, put together,' he told LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr. There's also the air quality. 'In London one of the poorest air quality areas is around Heathrow. I'm not sure how 300,000 more flights leads to better air quality.' Then there are his concerns about 'our ability to meet our climate change commitments.' Not mentioned, but presumably of note, are his political ambitions. Khan, 54, first stood for election in 2016 on a manifesto opposing a third runway. He hasn't ruled out serving as London Mayor until 2040, though with the popularity ratings of many in his party floundering, you wonder if he might have his sights set on a slightly bigger political stage. He isn't the only Labour objector. Notable by his absence in the audience at Reeves' speech to business leaders on Wednesday was Ed Miliband, Energy Secretary and vocal third runway critic. It was also pointed out last week that, in her previous role as deputy mayor, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander backed City Hall's stance on the issue. 'We have been clear with our opposition to a third runway at Heathrow,' she said in a joint interview with the Mayor with Reuters, rediscovered by The Standard. If Khan is preparing to go into battle over Heathrow, opinions are divided over how flush with weaponry his arsenal (or his toolkit, to use the Mayor's analogy) might be. Guto Harri, former Downing Street Director of Communications, who was Boris Johnson's Director of External Affairs when he was mayor, says there are things Khan may be able to do aside from simply having 'a platform and a megaphone.' Transport for London (TfL) is in his remit and he has backed legal action aimed at preventing expansion of the airport in the past. But a Tory insider who was involved in the process in 2018, when Theresa May's government backed a third runway only to have it opposed in a judicial review (a decision which was later overturned by the Supreme Court), says Khan is merely 'a thorn in the side', deeming anything the Mayor does to frustrate matters to be, quite simply, 'not that big a deal.' For Harri, Khan's popularity when compared to others in his party is worth noting, however. 'Arguably, Sadiq is more popular these days than Keir – he's certainly more popular than Rachel is. He can speak for the residents and back in the day maybe West London was not that Labour, whereas these days, for better or worse, it largely is. So he's a hard voice to ignore.' There are also things he can do beyond lobbying alone. 'One of the main issues with the third runway is that the infrastructure in West London can't handle the traffic to and from the airport, and therefore it would just cause carnage,' says Harri. 'The mayor has levers he can pull there. I think the M4 would be under the Department of Transport but most roads in and around Heathrow are going to come under the boroughs or the Mayor.' Then there are the tubes. The Piccadilly line and the Elizabeth line are run by TfL, which 'answers to him', says Harri. 'There are things that he could do to make the expansion of Heathrow even less attractive than people think it is. If you don't get the extra capacity on the tube and the roads, all you're doing is landing more planes in a clogged airport that you can't even get to.' Khan 'sets the fares'. 'So one of the things he could do would be to say that the fares on the Piccadilly line and the Elizabeth line to Heathrow become prohibitively expensive.' He can also 'dictate how many trains they run on those lines.' The Tory insider disagrees, saying there isn't 'really much he could do unless you could say 'right, I'm going to spite the government and stop work on the Piccadilly line', which would make him very unpopular in West London because it's needed there.' Another insider, who worked on airports policy at the Greater London Authority (GLA) under a previous administration, wonders whether the proposed rail routes out of Heathrow might be a way in for Khan. One of the routes (which hasn't been set in stone, but has been floated as a possible way to increase the number of journeys to the airport) would create access from Waterloo. 'There are possibilities that he could try to challenge the south-west access, which runs through south-west London. There might be some sharing of lines with TfL, because TfL shares Network Rail lines down to Wimbledon and places like that.' Then there's the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez). The former GLA insider suggests 'you could tighten that up, make it more expensive. But Heathrow will go along with that because part of their DCO (Development Consent Order) is going to be a chapter explaining how they're going to cut the number of cars going to Heathrow.' The Tory insider, for their part, says that on Ulez and other matters, Khan doesn't have 'any more ability to stop this than the Heathrow protestors who live up the road. The only area where he can be awkward is over investment in transport links to the airport.' Where he could have some effect, says the source, is in his support for the legal challenges that will inevitably arise and delay matters. 'Rachel Reeves saying she can get spades on the ground in this parliament, I think that's just for the birds,' they said, adding: 'Legally, whoever challenges this will try to pick holes in the work that's been done.' On Wednesday, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary predicted the runway wouldn't be ready until 2050. 'I'm not sure I quite buy what O'Leary said … but I don't see any way in which this runway could be opened before 2040,' says the Tory insider. Khan, meanwhile, will be 'trying to whip up opposition'. 'If you're Sadiq, you're trying to work with the protest groups, they'll be building legal cases from day one.' The source suspects the Mayor 'hasn't got a smoking gun'. '[His] involvement probably comes with him supporting the first court cases, and they probably come after the Secretary of State has taken an actual decision to go ahead.' Alexander has said her department will review the 2018 Airports National Policy Statement, published by May's government, which 'provides the basis for decision making' on any Development Consent Order application (a permit to build what's known as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project) submitted by the airport. A former GLA insider suggested that if the statement is refreshed at all, doing so could 'reopen it to judicial review'. 'That gives [Khan] an in. There is nothing he can do about the existing statement. He has done everything he can and it's been approved by the Supreme Court. But this gives him an in to the judicial review.' Taking legal action would be 'an awkward one' for Khan, says Harri, given it would involve using 'public money to take the government to court over something.' 'But he can do it. There are precedents for the Mayor actually going to court over things Londoners feel quite strongly about.' For better or for worse, Khan's personal mandate is 'significant', says Harri, who feels there is a certain 'frisson' in the fact that he is in his third term as Mayor and still 'pretty clean', while the same can't be said for the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. 'People have criticised him over Ulez, he's been pretty woeful on crime. But he hasn't had the personal attacks,' he says. 'Sadiq is sitting fairly pretty at the moment and presumably won't want a fourth term. Maybe he uses his platform to get back into parliament?' When Harri worked for Johnson in City Hall, David Cameron was in Downing Street. It is 'awkward' when the mayor and the government are at loggerheads and come from the same side of the aisle, he says. 'But Ken [Livingstone] went against Tony Blair, [and] Boris was quite often a pain for Cameron and Osborne.' It's undoubtedly 'a really bad look' for the party, though. 'The family looks split, and actually the next big election before the general election will be the London mayoralty [in 2028]. And losing the mayoralty would be a really bad start to a general election campaign for Labour. 'So Sadiq has quite a few cards that he's holding.' A spokesperson for the Mayor said any plans proposed by the airport 'would need to show how they are consistent with our binding climate change targets, as well as noise and air pollution commitments.' 'The Mayor is not convinced that you can have hundreds of thousands of additional flights at Heathrow every year without undermining our legal obligations.' That doesn't quite sound like a man wielding his toolkit yet, but if O'Leary is right in his prediction, there are still 25 years to go before the runway might come to fruition. Plenty of time to throw a few spanners in the works. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
