Government forced to publish messages between disgraced Tory MP and then health secretary The government has been forced to publish documents that reveal how the disgraced former Conservative MP Owen Paterson directly lobbied a senior minister for a healthcare firm that was paying him to be a consultant. Paterson contacted […]
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Robert Hooper said of altercation he had ‘felt threatened, and an Englishman’s home is his castle’ A farmer who used his forklift tractor to flip and push a Vauxhall Corsa car off his land after a row with the driver over blocking access has been cleared by a jury of […]
Proposed laws require tech firms to prevent publication of harmful content or face substantial fines Joining digital pile-ons, sending threatening social media posts and deliberately posting hoax bomb threats are among the new criminal offences that could result in jail sentences under proposed online safety laws. Tech firms will also […]
Officials say they have evidence of plot to mock up scenes of attack using corpses, Turkish-made drones and actors playing mourners US officials claim they have evidence of a Russian plan to make a “very graphic” fake video of a Ukrainian attack as a pretext for an invasion. The alleged […]
Policy chief Munira Mirza was first to go, followed shortly by Jack Doyle, Dan Rosenfield and Martin Reynolds Four of Boris Johnson’s key staff have quit as the fallout from the Downing Street party scandal continued to shake his hold on government. Johnson’s longstanding policy chief Munira Mirza was the […]
Price cap in England, Scotland and Wales likely to rise again, as Bank of England expects inflation to hit 7% Rishi Sunak has warned households suffering from Britain’s worsening cost of living crisis to brace themselves for further increases in energy costs later this year, as critics said his £9bn […]
Head of watchdog writing to PM and home secretary about England and Wales data, which excludes fraud The head of the official statistics watchdog has reprimanded Boris Johnson and the Home Office for incorrectly saying crime has fallen by 14%, when this excludes the fastest-rising category of crime. Sir David […]
The youngster, named Rayan, became trapped down the 32m-deep well on Tuesday, sparking frantic efforts to free him Rescue workers in northern Morocco have entered the third day of digging to reach a five-year-old boy trapped down a 32-metre (105ft) deep well. The boy has been stuck in the well, […]
Measures include £200 rebate on energy bills as millions of households brace for record rise The Treasury is scrambling to complete 11th-hour plans capable of softening a national cost of living crisis, including a £200 rebate on energy bills and more help for the poorest households. No 10 and the […]
Communist party tightens grip on critics to preserve ‘perfect’ image of Winter Games A chill is blowing through Chinese civil society as activists, journalists and academics report receiving police warnings and censorship of their social media platforms in recent weeks as Beijing prepares to host the Winter Olympics beginning on […]