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RuPaul Explains Why He Keeps Boundaries With ‘Drag Race’ Colleagues

RuPaul Explains Why He Keeps Boundaries With ‘Drag Race’ Colleagues

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RuPaul Charles is “Mother Ru” to Drag Race contestants, but when it comes to his coworkers, he keeps himself guarded. In a new New Yorker profile by Ronan Farrow, who has been a guest judge on All Stars season 7 and Drag Race season 16, the writer pointed out that even while appearing on the show he didn’t get to have “substantive exchanges” with the series’ host until the interview. In their conversation, the drag icon confirmed that he likes to “keep the boundaries” between panelists and contestants on the show. He shared that a former colleague, who he does not name, had worked with him for decades without them developing a deep friendship. “We kept a working relationship, we traveled the world together,” Charles explained. “But sometimes I would hear her talking to a friend, and she’d be talking about her latest boyfriend. She never did that with me, because I’m her boss. And the truth is, I don’t want to hear about it. I don’t care about that shit.” Elsewhere in the interview, …

Leaked audio: Right-wing Texas Supreme Court justice caught blasting “brainwashed” GOP colleagues

Leaked audio: Right-wing Texas Supreme Court justice caught blasting “brainwashed” GOP colleagues

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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Speaking to a group of East Texas voters in September, state Supreme Court Justice John Devine cast himself as the antidote to his “brainwashed” colleagues on the all-Republican bench. Their “Big Law” backgrounds, he said, had taught them to worry more about legal procedures — “standing, timeliness, or whatever else” — than their duty to uphold the Constitution. “At times I feel like they would sacrifice the Republic for the sake of the process,” Devine said in the speech, a recording of which was obtained by The Texas Tribune. “My concern is that they all bow down to the altar of process rather than to fidelity to the Constitution. And when I say that, it’s not meant to be malice towards my colleagues. I think it’s how they were trained — how they were brainwashed.” Particularly egregious, he said, was their ruling against Jeff Younger, a former Texas House candidate who had for …

Tory Chair Reveals His ‘Frustration’ With Party Colleagues Over Conservative In-Fighting

Tory Chair Reveals His ‘Frustration’ With Party Colleagues Over Conservative In-Fighting

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Tory Party chair Richard Holden has made clear his his frustration with his warring Conservative colleagues in a revealing TV interview. In a moment when the ITV camera crew were filming cutaway shots, Holden was asked how he felt about the other Tory MPs who have called for PM Rishi Sunak to step down or who have called for the party to change direction. The party chairman said this was “always frustrating”. “People are always going to have different opinions,” he said. “Usually, it’s best for those opinions to be expressed with other colleagues in the most constructive manner possible, and I’m not sure all colleagues have always done that.” ITV News’ political correspondent Tom Sheldrick then interrupted Holden to remind him, “your microphone’s on for this”. Holden went on: “All colleagues want the same outcomes,” referring to migration and economic policies. “The truth is there will always be slight disagreements about how to get there. It’s always important for all colleagues to remember what unites us, which are those fundamental things.” Conservative chairman @RicHolden …

House will vote next week on standalone Israel aid bill, Johnson tells colleagues

House will vote next week on standalone Israel aid bill, Johnson tells colleagues

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Republicans on Saturday that the House will vote next week on a standalone bill to provide aid to Israel, with no offsetting spending cuts. Johnson made the announcement in an afternoon letter to colleagues while criticizing the impending Senate legislation that would pair Israel aid with funding for Ukraine and a package of tougher border security and asylum laws. “While the Senate appears poised to finally release text of their supplemental package after months of behind closed doors negotiations, their leadership is aware that by failing to include the House in their negotiations, they have eliminated the ability for swift consideration of any legislation,” Johnson wrote, adding that the House “will have to work its will on these issues and our priorities will need to be addressed.” Johnson blasted the Senate for what he called its “failure to move appropriate legislation in a timely fashion,” arguing the House needs to act in the absence of leadership from the upper chamber amid “the perilous circumstances currently facing Israel.” “Next …

Elon Musk Voted “Most Overrated CEO” by His Colleagues

Elon Musk Voted “Most Overrated CEO” by His Colleagues

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The one thing other executives agree on. Burn Rate SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has topped Fortune‘s list of “most overrated CEOs” — for the second year running. The publication’s survey is sent out to almost 400 “executives, businesses, directors and industry analysts to measure big businesses’ reputations, as told by their rivals and friends.” In an additional ranking, Musk took the crown for being the most overrated executive in 2023, yet another sign that the mercurial CEO’s reputation has tanked, especially following his disastrous acquisition of X-formerly-Twitter. Track Record Musk has a long and extremely well-documented track record of overpromising and underdelivering. For instance, Tesla cars still can’t drive themselves, despite him promising verbatim that such a thing will be possible “next year” for ten years now. Tesla has also tanked under his leadership in 2023, with stocks plunging 25 percent so far this year, wiping out $80 billion in market value. The company disappointed investors during a recent earnings call, warning of slowing growth in sales and fierce competition, especially in China. …

Woman cleared of spiking colleagues’ coffee with Viagra | England

Woman cleared of spiking colleagues’ coffee with Viagra | England

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A woman has been cleared of poisoning colleagues with instant coffee spiked with ground-up Viagra tablets. Karen Beale, 62, described as someone who wanted to “help people, not harm”, was found not guilty by a jury of seven men and five women at Canterbury crown court. Beale, a former factory cleaner, claimed she had been “set up” when she was filmed checking a jar of instant coffee that police later found had been laced with sildenafil – an erectile dysfunction treatment sold under the brand name Viagra – and a medication for high cholesterol. Beale told the jury she had checked one Nescafé Blend 37 coffee jar “under instruction” from the general manager of Envirograf, a factory that makes fire protection products in Dover, where she worked. She had denied two offences of attempting to administer a poison or other destructive or noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy between November 2017 and September 2018. Beale thanked the jury as she was released from the dock. At the end of the trial, the …

Scotland’s chief medical officer told colleagues to delete WhatsApps ‘at end of every day’, UK COVID inquiry hears | UK News

Scotland’s chief medical officer told colleagues to delete WhatsApps ‘at end of every day’, UK COVID inquiry hears | UK News

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Scotland’s chief medical officer told colleagues to delete WhatsApp messages “at the end of every day” during the pandemic, the COVID inquiry has heard. Professor Sir Gregor Smith’s testimony has added to a growing political storm around the retention of informal messages by senior decision-makers and their advisers during the handling of COVID. Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon and her deputy John Swinney did not retain messages, while the national clinical director, Professor Jason Leitch, said deleting messages was a “pre-bed ritual”. A message from Sir Gregor in a group chat in July 2021 with other government medical advisers was shown at the hearing in Edinburgh on Monday. Deputy chief medical officer, Professor Graham Ellis, said “hope this isn’t FOI-able?” in reference to freedom of information in an exchange where he appeared to joke about having “my own supply” of cannabis. Responding, Sir Gregor said: “Delete at the end of every day…” Asked about the comments by Jamie Dawson KC, counsel to the inquiry, Sir Gregor said: “Scottish government advice at this time was not …

Bus company manager wrongly sacked after filming colleague’s Morecambe and Wise striptease

Bus company manager wrongly sacked after filming colleague’s Morecambe and Wise striptease

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The Stripper was a sketch performed by Morecambe and Wise on their BBC show – BBC A bus company manager who was wrongly sacked for gross misconduct after he filmed a colleague’s Morecambe and Wise striptease performance has been awarded compensation. Geoff Lovejoy, an operations manager at C.E. Jeatt & Sons, a bus and coach service in Ascot and Windsor, has been awarded over £52,000 for the unfair and wrongful dismissal at a tribunal hearing in Reading. In Dec 2020, he recorded Sean McAleer, a friend and company cleaner, dancing around their office to The Stripper by the David Rose band, in a scene reminiscent of the comedy duo’s classic performance. Mr McAleer was videoed playing with the zip of his cardigan before removing it, tossing it to one side and ending up “sprawled out” on a desk. But despite working in an office full of “horseplay” and “camaraderie”, Mr Lovejoy was accused by fellow workers of “grooming” and “goading” his colleague to do it. After being fired for gross misconduct, he sued bosses for unfair …

Kate Garraway’s ITV Colleagues Lead Tributes To Husband Derek

Kate Garraway’s ITV Colleagues Lead Tributes To Husband Derek

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Kate Garraway’s friends and colleagues have been showing their support following the news that her husband Derek Draper has died at the age of 56. On Friday morning, Kate shared on Instagram that her “darling husband Derek” had died, almost four years after the former political adviser suffered severe health complications when he contracted Covid in the early stages of the pandemic. “As some of you may know he has been critically ill following a cardiac arrest in early December which, because of the damage inflicted by Covid in March 2020, led to further complications,” Kate told her followers. “Derek was surrounded by his family in his final days and I was by his side holding his hand throughout the last long hours and when he passed. “I have so much more to say, and of course I will do so in due course, but for now I just want to thank all the medical teams who fought so hard to save him and to make his final moments as comfortable and dignified as possible.” …

South Wales Fire Service chief quits after report finds men within service ‘sent inappropriate messages’ to female colleagues | UK News

South Wales Fire Service chief quits after report finds men within service ‘sent inappropriate messages’ to female colleagues | UK News

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A fire chief has said he will resign after the publication of a report into his service’s culture. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service’s chief fire officer, Huw Jakeway, said he was “profoundly sorry” to colleagues who had “negative experiences”. The review into the service’s culture was led by Fenella Morris KC and the report includes more than 80 recommendations. Those recommendations include a campaign “to make it clear that sexual harassment of female members of staff… is unacceptable”. The report found there were “men in all parts of the service who message women in the service inappropriately, often to initiate a sexual relationship”. Mr Jakeway said there were “too many examples within the report that do not reflect positively on the service”. Having served as chief fire officer for more than 12 years, Mr Jakeway said it was now time for a “change in leadership”. He has informed the fire authority he intends to retire but that it would “not detract from or delay the work to address the recommendations”. “I am confident through …