Former PM has warned of a financial timebomb awaiting families as Labour plans a major intervention to address crisis Boris Johnson and the Tory leadership candidates should agree an immediate emergency budget tackling the spiralling cost of living, Gordon Brown has said, or risk “condemning millions of vulnerable and blameless […]
Month: August 2022
Metropolitan police apology and £30,000 payout for ‘incident’ on Chiswick Common that left Zac Sharif-Ali ‘gasping for breath’ The Metropolitan police force is facing a fresh allegation of racism after a black man walking his dog claimed he was choked for 90 seconds in a headlock before being taken back […]
Taiwan reports 14 Chinese military ships conducting drills around Taiwan Strait; US and allies condemn PLA firing of missiles Taiwan says China making simulated attack on main island How worried should we be about military conflict? China’s military has pressed ahead with its largest ever military drills, targeting Taiwan with […]
Candidate for PM proposes to raise prestige of vocational education and mandate sixth-form maths and English with a British baccalaureate Rishi Sunak has vowed to phase out university degrees that do not improve students’ “earning potential”, create a Russell Group of world-class technical colleges and introduce a British baccalaureate that […]
Head of International Atomic Energy Agency says shelling at Zaporizhzhia plant underlines ‘very real risk of a nuclear disaster’ Russian-Ukraine war – latest updates The UN nuclear watchdog has called for an immediate end to all military action near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after it was hit by shelling, causing […]
Labour’s Rachel Reeves says Conservatives are ‘playing blame game’ for UK’s economic problems Liz Truss has been accused of being “deeply irresponsible” for threatening to tinker with the Bank of England’s mandate on the brink of a recession. The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, attacked the Tory leadership frontrunner after Truss […]
Combined amount of $49.3m is still below the $150m Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis sought after his Sandy Hook shooting lies After already ordering him to pay $4.1m to the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, the jury hearing the defamation case against far-right […]
Retaliatory measures threaten ‘guardrails’ between two countries as Beijing continues military drills Taiwan crisis: latest updates Relations between the world’s two largest economies have plummeted into further uncertainty as China halted ties with the US on a range of critical issues – from talks on the climate crisis to dialogue […]
Services still available but will run at reduced capacity over the weekend People contacting the NHS 111 service have been warned of delays due to a significant computer system outage caused by a cyber-attack. The issue is affecting some services across the UK such as the system used to refer […]
Campaigners say ‘our rivers are dying’ after driest July in England for more than 100 years Most of the UK’s rivers are on “red alert”, according to the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), as campaigners say “our rivers are dying” and call for immediate nationwide hosepipe bans. This […]