Senior Tory ministers, Labour party and the public all expected to resist cuts, especially to frontline services Liz Truss is facing cabinet unrest over her plans for brutal public spending cuts across all departments after the disastrous mini-budget put major pledges at risk, including the pensions triple lock. The prime […]
Year: 2022
Analysis of Arctic lake suggests viruses and bacteria locked in ice could reawaken and infect wildlife The next pandemic may come not from bats or birds but from matter in melting ice, according to new data. Genetic analysis of soil and lake sediments from Lake Hazen, the largest high Arctic […]
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 […]
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 […]