The Vale of Glamorgan MP previously handled AI and online safety as a junior minister and will now help steer Britain’s technology, infrastructure and digital-security policies.
The India-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement ~ that took effect on Thursday ~ is being hailed as a landmark achievement, but its true significance lies less in the tariff schedules than in what it signals about India’s evolving place in global commerce.
For generations, countries of northern and western Europe were seen as places where summer meant pleasant sunshine rather than a struggle for survival.
The ceremony in Stafford brought together faith leaders, community groups, and local residents for a combined Sikh and Christian service marking the start of a new civic term. Pritpal Singh Nagi said the turnout and shared participation made the occasion deeply emotional.
Most people don’t think of their chats or cloud storage as something tax authorities might access.
Britain has warned this new strain of coronavirus was "out of control", and imposed a stringent new stay-at-home lockdown from Sunday.
The Pfizer vaccine offers its own challenges, not the least of which is that it must be stored at temperatures below minus 70 degrees Celsius. The Moderna vaccine candidate can, in contrast, be stored at minus 20 degrees Celsius.
The Scots were peeved with the decision to leave the European Union ~ they had voted to stay, but overall the vote was in favour of leaving - and in recent months have been increasingly perturbed by London’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic.
Yet the clock is ticking and rather menacingly as 31 December, the date by which parliaments in London and Brussels must endorse a trade deal, approaches.
David Frost, the UK government's chief negotiator, and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier had a "useful review of the whole agenda before our talks" during informal Brexit discussions on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency quoted the spokesman as saying on Wednesday.
