The number of hemp-growing licences issued to farmers this year has hit 94, up from 74 over the whole of 2019, as more farmers seek to grow the cannabinoid crop.
It is with relief that I view the dying gasps of the Trump presidency. He was and is repugnant in more ways than I can count. Anti-immigrant, misogynistic, racist. Build the wall. Grab them by the pussy. Ban all Muslims. Mock those with disabilities. The narcissistic boasting and infantile tweeting.
In an Applegreen car park off the N11, the kid in the Burger King uniform hands me a Whopper and fries through the car window. He sees I'm looking at CNN on the phone. "Everyone's looking at the election," he says.
Joe Biden was yesterday declared the winner of the US presidential election, confining Donald Trump to a single term in office and bringing to a close four tumultuous years in the White House.
In late August, roughly five weeks before Americans went to the polls, a story appeared in The New York Times reporting new data about the reach of fringe US conservative outlets on Facebook. The numbers were staggering.
Perception in politics matters - when a flawed perception is allowed to persist, it soon transforms into an accepted reality.
A new US vice president-elect stepped forward yesterday - and for the first time in history she was not a man.
