Isabel Oakeshott

1 month ago | msn.com | Robert Mendick |Isabel Oakeshott

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1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Mendick |Isabel Oakeshott

One of the UK's biggest police forces has temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to boost diversity, The Telegraph can disclose. West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently preventing white British candidates from applying for jobs as recruits to its police constable entry programmes. "Under-represented" groups, on the other hand, can lodge their applications early.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Isabel Oakeshott

Much as it pains me to give any credit to our friends across the Channel, I have seen the future of bin collection – and it is French. Our Gallic neighbours are very good indeed at taking our money, and spectacularly useless at stopping migrants crossing the Channel – but when it comes to disposing of rubbish, they deserve dix points. This is a very important discovery, and I hope the good folk at Birmingham City Council are listening up.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Isabel Oakeshott

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Isabel Oakeshott

When helicopters hover above central Tel Aviv, occasionally it signals something joyful: the release of hostages. After macabre handovers by masked militia, Israeli captives freed by Hamas are airlifted to the city, where they receive specialist care at some of the best hospitals on Earth. The tale of how I too ended up in one of these medical facilities does not, unfortunately, feature any war reporting heroics.