Ex-employee tells UK MPs Mark Zuckerberg ‘has unilateral control over 3bn people’ due to his position Mark Zuckerberg “has unilateral control over 3 billion people” due to his unassailable position at the top of Facebook, the whistleblower Frances Haugen told MPs as she called for urgent external regulation to rein […]
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Economists have failed to take account of ‘immense risks and potential loss of life’, says author of landmark review Many economic assessments of the climate crisis “grossly undervalue the lives of young people and future generations”, Prof Nicholas Stern warned on Tuesday, before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Economists […]
Chancellor will also increase minimum wage, but economists warn measures not enough to counteract inflation and cuts Rishi Sunak will end the public sector pay freeze for million of workers and increase the national minimum wage in the budget on Wednesday, though economists warned the measures would not compensate for […]
Chancellor concedes only 20% of transport funding boost is new and other commitments in £26bn spending plans are recycled Labour has accused Rishi Sunak of presiding over a “smoke and mirrors” budget after he conceded that just 20% of his biggest single spending commitment unveiled before the speech is made […]
Exclusive: UK’s most senior gynaecologist is latest clinician to raise alarm about mounting Covid pressures Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The NHS could soon be unable to deliver “the care it needs to” for women giving birth if the surge in Covid cases continues, the president […]
Cabinet Office denies it is blocking freedom of information requests despite ‘downward’ trend The UK government has been accused of waging a secret war against transparency, using an array of tactics to block the release of information to the public. In a report published on Monday, the investigative journalism website […]
Despite pushing ahead with dozens of new coal power plants, China has a new plan to increase wind and solar power in its march towards carbon neutrality China is targeting a clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060, according to an official plan published […]
Richard Ratcliffe seeks to persuade Foreign Office to do more to secure wife’s release from prison in Iran The husband of the jailed British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone on hunger strike for a second time in an attempt to persuade the UK foreign secretary to do more to […]
Rishi Sunak urged to make help for lower-income families a higher priority and to beware ‘Treasury orthodoxy’ Rishi Sunak is being warned by senior Tories not to allow “Treasury orthodoxy” to choke off critical funding this winter, with Conservatives demanding action in the budget over energy bills, criminal justice and […]
The woman whose revelations have rocked Facebook tells how spending time with her mother, a priest, motivated her to speak out This was not Frances Haugen’s plan A. The Facebook whistleblower says she does not like being the centre of attention, but what she saw while working at Mark Zuckerberg’s […]