New research finds scrapping the £1,000-a-year benefit uplift will ‘trigger mental illness and poorer health’ for thousands Scrapping the £1,000-a-year boost to universal credit next month will trigger mental illness and poorer health for thousands of people, and hit the sickest areas of the UK hardest, new research suggests. Boris […]
Month: September 2021
Antony Blinken thanks Qatar and Taliban for facilitating flight that he says shows US commitment to help citizens and others who assisted US A flight carrying more than 100 international passengers out of Kabul has landed in Doha, the first such civilian flight since the chaotic evacuation of 124,000 foreigners […]
Winner will play Leylah Annie Fernandez in final Email Bryan with your thoughts or tweet him @BryanAGraham 3.52am BST First set: *Raducanu 5-1 Sakkari (*denotes next server) Raducanu rips a backhand winner for love-15 and she’s three points from the first-set finish line. But Sakkari is able to serve her […]
21-year-old singer-songwriter adds to Brit award win earlier in the year Arlo Parks has won the 2021 Mercury prize, awarded to the year’s most outstanding British album, for her debut Collapsed in Sunbeams. Presenting the award at the ceremony in London on Thursday night, judge Annie MacManus said: “We chose […]
Party under pressure to set out alternative after condemning PM’s plan to increase NI contributions Labour is considering taxing wealth more heavily to raise funds in order to tackle the social care crisis, Keir Starmer has confirmed, as his party comes under pressure to set out its own costed plan. […]
Border Force is being trained on ‘turn-around’ tactics but France warns plan could endanger lives Priti Patel is preparing to send back small boats carrying migrants in the Channel despite warnings from the French authorities that it could endanger lives. Border Force staff are being trained to employ “turn-around” tactics […]
Briton defeats Olympic champion Belinda Bencic 6-3, 6-4 Raducanu just the fourth qualifier to reach a major semi For all that Emma Raducanu has achieved and how far she has come over only a few fleeting weeks as a full-time professional, one of the opportunities she was still waiting for […]
Care sector leaders become increasingly concerned about limited resources set out in proposals Boris Johnson has won the backing of MPs for his controversial health and social care plan, amid a growing backlash from experts and professionals who warned it will fail to fix the urgent crisis in the care […]
Group signs open letter criticising decision to extend Cressida Dick’s term in office by two years Victims of police incompetence and malpractice, including Doreen Lawrence and the brother of murdered private eye Daniel Morgan, have called for the replacement of the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick. In a scathing open […]
Rallies in Afghanistan have already been broken up violently, now ‘severe consequences’ are threatened for demonstrators The Taliban has moved to tighten its crackdown on escalating protests against its rule, banning any demonstrations that do not have official approval for both the gathering itself and for any slogans that might […]