589% increase in number of incidents described as ‘watershed moment for antisemitism in the UK’ The scale of the surge in antisemitism in the UK since Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October has been revealed, in data showing a 589% increase in the number of incidents compared with the […]
Month: February 2024
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Cameron to ‘kiss my ass’ in response to his request to pass aid package David Cameron has urged US lawmakers to pass a bill including support for Ukraine and warned them not to show “the weakness displayed against Hitler”. The foreign secretary said Congress should […]
Three people have been taken into custody after gunfire erupted near Union Station during Super Bowl victory parade Multiple people shot during Kansas City Chiefs victory parade Kansas City Chiefs denounce ‘senseless violence’ Explainer: what we know so far The Missouri governor, Mike Parson, and his wife were at the […]
Russian president says he was grateful to the former Fox News host for the two-hour interview, which made headlines around the world Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he is grateful to rightwing US television host Tucker Carlson for his interview last week, but was surprised by a lack of […]
Cash injection in Great British Energy should be increased to £30bn, thinktank says after Keir Starmer U-turn Keir Starmer is being urged to more than double Labour’s investment in publicly owned renewable energy to save consumers billions of pounds on their bills, despite the party drastically scaling back its plans […]
Alejandro Mayorkas, rebuked by Republicans who voted against key immigration bill, first to face such punishment in over 150 years The US House of Representatives has voted to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security, on explicitly political charges related to conditions at the southern border as Republicans […]
Broadcaster worked at BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for more than 40 years, garnering millions of devoted listeners • Tribute: so much more than a DJ Tributes have been paid to the DJ Steve Wright, for decades the voice of the BBC on afternoon radio, who has died at […]
Withdrawal of backing for Graham Jones, candidate for Hyndburn, follows Starmer’s action against Azhar Ali in Rochdale Labour has suspended a second parliamentary candidate over their remarks about Israel, as Keir Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from the leak of a private meeting of party activists in Lancashire last […]
An existing drug for the chronic disease could slow or stop its progression, researchers say Scientists have discovered a jab that could prevent rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a development experts say could offer hope to millions at risk of the disease. RA is a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the […]
British Retail Consortium says criminals ‘being given a free pass’, with thefts more than doubling to 16.7m incidents last year UK shop workers are facing 1,300 incidents of violence and abuse a day and a battle to control “brazen” acts of shoplifting, as pressure mounts on ministers to intervene to […]