Charities and NGOs accuse government of changing how it calculates climate spending to claim it will exceed targets Rishi Sunak has been accused of sending out the wrong signals on tackling the climate emergency as he heads to the Cop28 summit in Dubai after saying his revised net zero targets […]
Year: 2023
One of the all-time great bandleaders and writer of Christmas classic Fairytale of New York, MacGowan invigorated rock with the power of Irish folk music • Alexis Petridis on Shane MacGowan: the poet-musician of dereliction who became a mythic figure• Shane MacGowan – a life in pictures Shane MacGowan, the […]
IDF says six more Israeli captives handed over to Red Cross after two people released earlier; Israel says 30 Palestinians released from prisons Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisis China’s government has released a position paper on the Israel-Hamas conflict. The country this month took the chair […]
Dutch version of book pulped after king and duchess named as speculating about skin colour of Harry and Meghan’s son, in pages on ‘unconscious bias’ A royal author has said an investigation is under way into how the Dutch version of his new book named two senior members of the […]
Former staff and media experts express dismay and anger as Emily Maitlis says corporation bosses have shown ‘they don’t really care’ Cuts to the BBC’s flagship evening news programme Newsnight have been described as “a bad decision” that reveals a “loss of confidence” at the corporation. Newsnight staff past and […]
A Republican party giant and Nobel peace prize winner, the former national security adviser was a key architect of US foreign policy Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state under Richard Nixon who became one of the most prominent and controversial figures of US foreign policy in the 20th century, […]
Extended truce due to end at 7am local time (5am GMT) on Thursday; 30 Palestinian prisoners freed after 16 Israeli hostages released by Hamas Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisis Continue reading…
Of more than 8 million deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution, 61% linked to fossil fuels, finds study Air pollution from fossil fuel use is killing 5 million people worldwide every year, a death toll much higher than previously estimated, according to the largest study of its kind. The stark […]
UK BioBank offers up biggest ever cache of whole-genome sequences for medical research A new era of medical discoveries, treatments and cures is on the horizon, researchers say, following the announcement that an unprecedented trove of genetic information is to be made available to scientists. Health researchers from around the […]
European Commission president said Brexit could be fixed because leaders had ‘goofed it up’ Rishi Sunak has rejected the suggestion that Brexit could be in peril after Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, claimed that the UK could be on a path to rejoining the European […]