The weekend saw the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
join prime minister Theresa May in Belgium to commemorate the soldiers
lost to the Battle of Passchendaele, marking the centenary of the start
of the fight.
Joining the Belgian King to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Prince William
said Britain and Belgium "stand together, in remembrance of that
sacrifice". Helen Mirren was amongst those performing a series of
musical and spoken pieces set to a backdrop of light projections on to
the historic Cloth Hall on Sunday.
The Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers “will not write again”
after he suggested BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz
earned high salaries because they were Jewish in a column titled "Sorry,
ladies - equal pay has to be earned". Commenting on the BBC gender pay gap after it was revealed two-thirds of its stars earning more than £150,000
are male, Myers wrote: "Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for
their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price,
which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate,
lost-with-all-hands stupidity."
A News UK spokesman said the column included "unacceptable comments both
to Jewish people and to women in the workplace". Editor Martin Ivens
said the piece, which appeared in the Irish Sunday Times and online, should not have been published and has since apologised personally to the two presenters.
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