Exclusive: Chris Hopson says public should expect longer waiting times to continue after second Covid peak Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The NHS in England will take “months” to return to normal service after the Covid crisis is finally over, because its workforce is “exhausted and […]
Year: 2021
Report says children repeating a year of school should be considered as part of radical catch-up efforts Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Today’s children face losing £350bn in lifetime earnings unless the UK’s governments invest in radical catch-up efforts when the pandemic is over, according to […]
Country’s powerful military have previously threatened to ‘take action’ over alleged fraud in a November election Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from Myanmar’s ruling party figures have been detained by the military in early morning raids, in what observers fear signals the first phase of a coup. […]
Veteran campaigner and teenager join environmental activists to protest against rail project Veteran environmental activist Dan Hooper, known as Swampy, who is one of nine protesters in a tunnel in central London to raise the alarm about the environmental destruction they believe the high speed rail project HS2 will cause, […]
Lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L Castor will head up new legal team after Butch Bowers clashed with Trump over strategy, according to reports Donald Trump has named new lawyers to lead the defense at his impeachment trial in the Senate next week on the charge that he unleashed a […]
Tory MPs use short-lived announcement of export ban to call for overhaul of trade deal, as EU chief is attacked over U-turn Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The European Union’s threat to impose a vaccine border between Northern Ireland and the Republic risks reigniting one of […]
Social network allowing dangerous Covid theories to be shared, says Bureau of Investigative Journalism Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Facebook is allowing users to profit from the spread of potentially dangerous false theories and misinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, including deploying money-raising tools on pages […]
FA will work with government and social media platforms Rashford: abuse is ‘humanity and social media at its worst’ The Football Association has vowed to work with the government and social media platforms to eradicate racist abuse after a succession of incidents. The Chelsea defender Reece James, West Brom’s Romaine […]
Liz Truss to seek to join 11-nation trans-Pacific partnership, whose nearest member is 3,000 miles away The British government is to formally apply to join a mammoth free-trade pact that includes Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand now that it has left the EU. Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, […]
Demonstrators, including gilet jaunes activists, also protested against Covid restrictions Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in dozens of French cities on Saturday to oppose a security bill they say will restrict the filming and publicising of images of police brutality. Demonstrators also protested against the restrictions imposed to […]