Sergei Surovikin says Russia’s defence of occupied southern city ‘not easy’ as Ukraine introduces local news blackout Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates The new commander of Moscow’s army in Ukraine has announced that civilians were being “resettled” from the Russian-occupied southern city of Kherson, describing the military situation as […]
Month: October 2022
Sergei Surovikin says Ukraine forces ‘continually’ trying to take positions of Russian troops, particularly in Kupiansk, Lyman and Mykolaiv What we know on day 237 of the invasion A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian port city Mykolaiv, in one of three explosions heard there in […]
Rapper and actor, 28, wins for her fourth album after critical acclaim and a decade as a performer Little Simz has won the 2022 Mercury prize for her fourth album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. The 28-year-old north London rapper and actor was the only second-time nominee in a field […]
New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent question Jeremy Hunt has shredded Liz Truss’s economic plans in one of the most astonishing U-turns in modern political history, including slashing the energy price freeze which the prime minister had repeatedly championed. The […]
The UK newspaper front pages cover the Chancellor’s tax cut reversals as Truss’s fight for survival takes centre stage Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s reversal of tax cuts and prime minister Liz Truss’s fight for survival dominated the UK front pages on Tuesday. The Guardian describes Jeremy Hunt’s tax cut reversal as […]
Four advisers, including George Osborne’s ex-chief of staff, named, with chancellor seeking to repair damage from mini-budget Trussonomics: who were doomed mini-budget’s biggest cheerleaders? Jeremy Hunt has recruited George Osborne’s former chief of staff for a four-person panel of experts designed to show the government welcomes scrutiny of its plans […]
Librium Liz appeared for a brief, silent cameo in the Commons as her captors, Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt, held court It was a very British coup. So polite that you could almost have missed it. So restrained that Liz Truss actually had to mastermind her own dismissal. If Librium […]
Pregnant woman and her partner killed in latest wave of drone strikes on Ukraine’s capital Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Russia attacked Kyiv with nearly 30 “kamikaze” drones on Monday morning, killing four, including a pregnant woman and her partner, days after Vladimir Putin said there would be no more “massive […]
Prime minister to meet mutinous Tory MPs this week in effort to shore up her position after U-turns on tax Liz Truss is fighting for her political survival, with Conservative MPs threatening to oust her and even allies warning she has just days to turn around her premiership despite ripping […]
Casey report uncovers internal failings that let racist, corrupt and misogynist officers remain in their jobs Metropolitan police officers suspected of serious criminal offences including sexual assault and domestic abuse have been allowed to escape justice, a damning review has found, with the force’s leader admitting that hundreds of racist, […]