Other perks including nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home offered to attract recruits ‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposals Teachers in England are being offered a range of incentives to make the job more appealing, including two free periods a week to give […]
Revelation Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is paid more than PM adding to anger over salary cuts, sources say Sue Gray has been given a salary of £170,000 as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff – more than the prime minister – prompting fury among Labour colleagues who have taken lower […]
Twenty killed and at least 450 injured in cities across Lebanon a day after exploding pagers killed 12 Analysis: Pager and walkie-talkie attacks were audacious and carefully planned A new series of extraordinary explosions aimed at Hezbollah – this time targeting walkie-talkies – has killed at least 20 and wounded […]
Open Rights Group say digital documentation system is prone to data errors, system crashes and other glitches Millions of migrants have been urged to register for a new eVisa scheme as campaigners warn the document could create a digital Windrush scandal. The scheme, which will be introduced at the end […]
Centre for Women’s Justice gathered testimony from more than 200 women alleging attacks by police officer partners Male police officers accused of domestic abuse were promoted into positions tackling rape and violence against women, rather than being punished, according to a new report. The report from the Centre for Women’s […]
Microsoft researchers found that the group created a video, paid an actor to appear as the alleged victim, and spread the claim through a fake website A false claim circulating on social media that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work […]
Cabinet minister defends PM in gifts row and says UK ‘can be turned around’ despite economic gloom One of the most powerful figures in government has defended Keir Starmer amid a row over gifts from a party donor, saying the prime minister is a man of integrity who is not […]
Israel yet to make statement about detonations across Lebanon that killed a 10-year-old girl and left 400 in a reported critical condition What we know about the Hezbollah pager explosions Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel after pagers used by its members exploded across Lebanon simultaneously, killing at least […]
Britain promises to send £4m to back Italian crackdown on irregular migration Keir Starmer has shown “great interest” in the Italy-Albania migration deal, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has said, as the UK vowed to send £4m to support her controversial crackdown on irregular migration. Speaking at a press […]
Child deaths from infections see ‘remarkable’ decline but AMR fatalities of over-70s likely to rise by 146%, study finds Analysis: Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics? Superbugs will kill more than 39 million people before 2050 with older people particularly at […]