News Headlines - 26 November 2016
▽Like it or not, Tony Blair is giving a voice to the 48 per cent
Tony Blair's interview with this magazine and recent reports that he plans to "re-enter" public life have provoked the usual howls of outrage from both right and left. The anti-European Tory press has always loathed Tony because he won Labour three elections and restored our relations with the Continent after years of decline under the Tories. Some leftist commentators too, still obsessed with the Iraq war, want to silence him, as if they can't bear the possibility that what he's saying might be right.
▽Major: Tyranny of the majority must not set Brexit terms | The Times & The Sunday Times
The former prime minister told guests at a private dinner in Westminster that he “could not accept” that those who had voted to remain in the EU should have “no say” on the terms of Brexit.
▽CNN denies airing 30 minutes of hardcore porn | The Independent
CNN denied airing 30 minutes of inappropriate content on Thursday night after initially blaming local cable television provider RCN for the mishap, the network clarified on Friday.
This week, a story flew around the internet that Antonino Fernandez, the billionaire founder of the brewery who died this year, had left €2 million to every person in his home village. The story was reported by many major UK news organisations, including The Independent, the BBC and the Press Association, as well as internationally – but it wasn't strictly true.
▽German couple on trial for rape, slaying of Chinese student | Fox News
A young couple in eastern Germany is on trial on charges they abducted, raped and killed a Chinese student this year.
