After the announcement by Elon Musk, several accounts that had changed their name to his appeared to be suspended Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be “permanently suspended”. “Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that […]
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Research shared with the Guardian also shows offshore holdings in London are worth a combined £55bn More than 138,000 residential and commercial properties in England and Wales are owned by offshore companies, with holdings in London worth a combined £55bn, according to research shared with the Guardian. The findings come […]
Report at Cop27 shows the world is now deep into the climate emergency, with the 1.5C heating limit ‘barely within reach’ The past eight years were the eight hottest ever recorded, a new UN report has found, indicating the world is now deep into the climate crisis. The internationally agreed […]
Scepticism from summit attendees as PM adopts Labour leader’s stated aim of making UK a green ‘superpower’ Rishi Sunak attempted an extraordinary volte-face on green policy on the eve of the Cop27 climate summit on Saturday, saying he would attend in order to “galvanise” world leaders to save the planet. […]
Angry at not being invited to the Queen’s funeral, minister sent string of abusive texts Gavin Williamson, the cabinet office minister, warned the Conservative chief whip that “there is a price for everything” in a string of angry messages being investigated by the party, it has emerged. Williamson, who attends […]
‘It’s a total disaster,’ says whistleblower as Home Office brings in novice workers to clear backlog The Home Office is hiring asylum decision-makers from customer service and sales positions at McDonald’s, Tesco and Aldi as part of a recruitment drive to clear its huge backlog of asylum applications, the Observer […]
Former UK-based vice-president Bruce Daisley thinks Tesla boss has underestimated the complexity of his restructuring plans Elon Musk “doesn’t know what he’s doing” with Twitter and is “making everyone alarmed”, a former executive has said, after major brands paused their advertising spend on the platform and the company laid off […]
Exclusive: walkout over pay due to take place before Christmas The biggest nursing strike in NHS history is set to take place before Christmas after union officials said that “large swathes of the country” had voted for industrial action. Patients who are already facing record waiting lists are now likely […]
Claims that the social media platform’s entire curation team was dismissed prompts fears content could become ‘more toxic’ Elon Musk ended his first week as Twitter’s owner with an indelible mark by slashing, by some estimates, up to half of the company’s workforce with little notice and abruptly cutting off […]
Late notice means services will still be affected; Royal Mail and CWU to start new talks over postal strikes Three 24-hour strikes by railway workers scheduled for the coming week have been called off, the RMT union has announced, saying it will now enter “a period of intensive negotiations” with […]