Basketball star released as US agrees to free convicted arms dealer in dramatic prisoner swap Russia freed the jailed US basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange for the notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, the so-called “Merchant of Death” who had been held in a […]
Michael Gove greenlights £165m project that will produce estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year The UK will build its first new coalmine for three decades at Whitehaven in Cumbria, despite objections locally, across the UK and from around the world. Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, gave […]
Spending watchdog to give speech in parliament following supply scandals, including that involving Lady Mone The government had a responsibility to apply “basic standards” of procurement checks on PPE during the Covid pandemic, the auditor general will say, after scandals over supply, including that involving the peer Michelle Mone. Gareth […]
TUC and Unison say government is not negotiating in good faith, while PM accuses union leaders of being ‘unreasonable’ Union leaders have told ministers to stop “hiding behind” pay review bodies in winter strike talks amid warnings that industrial action on the railways could continue for six months. As a […]
MP for Solihull and chair of DCMS committee has had Tory whip removed ‘with immediate effect’ The Conservatives have removed the whip from Julian Knight after a complaint was made to the Metropolitan police. The chief whip, Simon Hart, removed the Tory whip, meaning Knight no longer sits in the […]
Former SNP Commons leader claims he would have seen off his detractors had he sought reelection Ian Blackford has said he could have won the SNP’s race to elect a new Westminster leader if he had put himself forward. Speaking to TalkTV on Wednesday evening, Blackford, who stepped down as […]
Revelation that LFI Diagnostics was entity of office that manages wealth of Douglas Barrowman deepens controversy over Tory peer A second company that the Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied ministers over in an attempt to secure government Covid contracts was a secret entity of her husband’s family office, the Guardian […]
State media referred to ‘rioters’ in killing, a term commonly used by the government to refer to protesters Iranian authorities have sentenced five people to death for allegedly killing a member of a paramilitary force affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, state media reported. 11 others received prison sentences. The […]
The environment secretary tells MPs it is ‘not the role of government to provide free food’ or to intervene in markets The government has ruled out making any intervention in the market to help farmers or consumers with high food prices, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has said. Food prices […]
Incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock in tight race with Republican Herschel Walker Not long ago, Herschel Walker took a slim lead, 50.4% to 49.6% (Georgia state results page here) over Raphael Warnock, but a lot of the experts and reporters I’m following here at Guardian central in New York are reporting […]