Chris Bryant reveals Pen Farthing was sent a letter from Boris Johnson’s PPS confirming evacuation A leaked letter suggests Boris Johnson and the Foreign Office may have covered up the prime minister’s involvement in airlifting more than 150 dogs and cats from Afghanistan, a senior MP has said. On Tuesday […]
Updates from the series opener at the Gabba in Brisbane The Spin: sign up and receive our free cricket newsletter Any thoughts? Email Geoff or tweet @GeoffLemonSport Here comes Patrick Cummins in his green blazer, and the crowd breaks out into applause as he walks to the middle for the […]
Users in North America and Europe report patchy service after cloud computing goes down Several Amazon services – including its website, Prime Video and applications that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) – went down for thousands of users on Tuesday. Amazon said the outage was probably due to problems related […]
Ex-diplomat claims string of failings within department led to ‘people being left to die at the hands of the Taliban’ Whistleblower’s main accusations Fresh questions about Dominic Raab’s role How Afghan reporter was left to the Taliban Tens of thousands of Afghans were unable to access UK help following the […]
Health secretary says cocaine trade causes ‘suffering, violence and exploitation at every stage’ Our strategy will reduce the misery of drugs | Sajid Javid Which top UK politicians have admitted to drug use? Sajid Javid has said recreational drug users are fuelling an international criminal enterprise, as the government announced […]
Ex-chief aide to Boris Johnson also alleges some journalists are trying to play down coverage of 2020 events Dominic Cummings has said it would be “very unwise for No 10 to lie” about social events that allegedly took place during lockdown last Christmas, after the prime minister’s spokesman insisted that […]
Beijing to increase business lending and build more affordable housing as post-Covid recovery falters China’s politburo has signalled measures to kickstart the faltering economy as the crisis gripping the country’s debt-laden property sector continued to play havoc with growth forecasts. Amid a warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that […]
Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis sentenced to two years and nine months for taking and sharing photos of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry Two Metropolitan police officers who “dehumanised” two black murder victims “for their own amusement” by taking and sharing photos from the scene where they lay murdered have […]
Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says this will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 5 million people worldwide is far from over and the next […]
Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions Middle-class drug users are to be targeted as part of a 10-year strategy to be announced by Boris Johnson’s government with a heavy focus on war-on-drugs-era punishment. So-called “lifestyle” users of class A […]