Boris Johnson’s communications chief was director of Hydro Industries when he visited No 10 Boris Johnson is facing questions over his support for a company that employed Guto Harri, his new communications chief, after it emerged the firm signed a £150m deal in Downing Street with the endorsement of the […]
In the first Brits ceremony to do away with gendered categories, women or female-fronted acts won 10 out of 15 overall awards Adele was the runaway winner at this year’s female-dominated Brit awards, taking home the prizes for artist of the year, album of the year for her fourth record, […]
Online sexual abuse of young women having ‘devastating impact’, says charity that commissioned research More than a fifth of girls and young women in the UK have been ‘“cyber-flashed” in the last year and a similar number have faced sexual harassment, according to a study exposing endemic internet sexual abuse. […]
Police rescue Labour leader from anti-vaxxers shouting ‘traitor’ and ‘Jimmy Savile’ days after PM’s smear of Starmer in parliament MPs from all sides angrily rounded on Boris Johnson and accused him of whipping up political poison after the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, was set upon by protesters who accused him […]
Opposition parties say claimed new pledges are not new but an attempt to distract from record NHS backlog Boris Johnson has been accused of a “shameful spinning” of key pledges on cancer care in an attempt to distract from the NHS’s record 6 million-strong backlog of people on waiting lists. […]
French president says both sides need to work quickly to avoid escalation after five-hour session at the Kremlin Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin did not appear to reach a breakthrough in marathon talks at the Kremlin on Monday evening aimed at fending off a Russian attack on Ukraine. After five […]
Ministers’ criticism of comedian at odds with planned laws harmful to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, leaders say Members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community have accused the government of hypocrisy after ministers condemned a Holocaust joke by Jimmy Carr while pushing through a raft of legislation hostile to […]
Complaints unit says it was not accurate to suggest transphobia accusation was disproved, but it rejects other criticisms The Today programme presenter Justin Webb has been partially rebuked by the BBC after he suggested students were lying when they accused a university professor of transphobia. Introducing Radio 4’s newspaper review […]
House of Commons research shows 500,000 suspected patients will wait over two weeks to see oncologist The numbers of cancer patients facing delays in seeing a specialist for the first time and starting their treatment have hit record highs in England, amid fears that overstretched NHS services can no longer […]
Prime minister may still face more letters of no confidence and revelations from Dominic Cummings Allies of Boris Johnson have insisted that “grownups” are now in charge of his operation as he heads into critical week for his beleaguered premiership that could see him face a confidence vote and the […]