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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
UN calls for a full investigation, as Greek authorities brand Turkey’s behaviour a ‘shame to civilisation’ The discovery of 92 naked migrants on the border of Greece and Turkey over the weekend has prompted accusations of blame between the two countries and condemnation from the United Nations. Greek police rescued […]
Unison’s Christina McAnea says winter strikes ‘inevitable’ as only way for workers to get message across Endemic low pay represents a threat to the very future of the NHS, the head of the biggest union representing health staff has warned ahead of an expected wave of strike action this winter. […]
Russia has been firing on Ukrainian city in the early hours since February, causing death and destruction The Russian missiles come to Zaporizhzhia when the “people’s dreams are at their deepest”, says Oleksandr Starukh. The governor of this south-eastern region of Ukraine since 2020, Starukh, 49, took the call from […]
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, […]