Daily Beast: Kash Patel Quietly Removed as Acting ATF Director After Ghosting Gig
Patel also found time on Friday to pop over to D.C.’s Capital One Arena to watch Alex Ovechkin tie Wayne Gretzky’s record for most goals in NHL history. He was photographed in the owner’s box chatting with Gretzky.
Priorities!
Globe: Andrew Coyne: If you’re going to threaten to secede, you might at least have the numbers to back it up
But now suppose someone were to warn he would refuse to accept the result of an election, not because he had any doubt about the integrity of the process, but purely and simply because he disagreed with the electorate’s verdict. And suppose this warning were accompanied by a threat: that if voters were to make such a choice, he and others of like mind would seek to break up the country.
That, in a nutshell, is what the former leader of the Reform Party of Canada, Preston Manning, has just done. It had the form of an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail. It had the substance of a ransom note. If the country were to return the Liberals to power under Mark Carney, Mr. Manning wrote, it would lead directly to the secession of Western Canada.
Preston Manning used to be pretty levelheaded, but I think he must be losing it.
Guardian: British Steel races against time as crisis talks end without deal
Jingye has already rejected a government offer of £500m in support to help convert its two blast furnaces, which make “virgin steel” from raw materials in an energy-intensive process, into greener electric arc furnaces that use scrap metal.
The Chinese company is thought to have demanded closer to £1bn in funding to go ahead with the plan.
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Another complication is that the UK government is entering into the discussions without having completed a review of the country’s steel strategy, a significant part of which will be a verdict on whether the UK needs to make virgin steel.
The government has refused to rule out nationalising the company, which was privatised under Margaret Thatcher in 1988, with Keir Starmer saying on Tuesday that “all options remain on the table”. The trade union Unite on Wednesday called for nationalisation, given that British Steel’s output is crucial to large infrastructure projects and provides 98% of Network Rail’s train tracks.
Over £370,000 per worker? Surely there are more effective ways to spend that money.
Last Updated: 09.Apr.2025 17:52 EDT
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