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Charity warns 6m UK homes may be unable to pay energy bills after price hike
Jan 05, 2022 12:29Around 4 million homes in the UK were already classed as fuel poor before a surge in global energy market prices triggered one of the steepest ever energy bill hikes in October, but campaigners are braced for a record increase in the numbers unable to pay their energy bills following another hike this spring.
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Throwing a shoe at the illegal US war on Iraq
Jan 03, 2022 12:26Neither US President George W. Bush nor U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair have had to answer the charge of the illegality of their war against Iraq, although Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi did throw his shoes at Bush in Baghdad in 2008.
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Javid urged to prioritize COVID tests for NHS workers or risk patient harm in UK
Jan 02, 2022 06:23Doctors say some NHS workers can’t work due to shortage of tests as UK Health Secretary, Sajid Javid admits supply is ‘constrained.’
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New Year Brexit changes ‘permanently damage’ EU trade, says food body
Jan 02, 2022 06:17Britain’s small businesses should expect trade with the EU to be “permanently damaged” from 1 January, the refrigerated supply chain trade body has said, after new customs checks take effect that it says will make imports from the bloc “more expensive, less flexible and much slower”.
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World’s top 2021 climate disasters cost nearly $200 billion: Study
Dec 30, 2021 11:14A new report shows that 2021 continued the trend of annual climate devastation worldwide that is costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars as planet-heating emissions unleash exactly the kind of damage scientists have warned about for decades.
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Tories face leadership dilemma as polls show Boris Johnson’s appeal flatlining
Dec 29, 2021 07:11Conservative MPs in marginal seats will enter 2022 with an agonizing dilemma. Do they stay loyal to Boris Johnson, who helped them win two years ago, or depose him in order to keep their seats next time?
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Why Omicron may be the final variant of concern?
Dec 29, 2021 06:59Even if highly contagious COVID-19 variant maximizes its potential, laws of biochemistry show the virus cannot keep improving indefinitely.
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UK and the EU set to remain best of enemies as 2022 dawns
Dec 27, 2021 12:27The year 2021 has been marked by a remarkable level of petulance in the UK-EU relationship. The unfortunate reality is that 2022 doesn’t offer much hope of redemption.
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NHS leaders alarmed by rise in hospital admissions as COVID cases hit record in UK
Dec 26, 2021 07:02The most widespread symptoms of the Omicron variant now match those of common colds, with calls for the UK government to update its public health messaging to include a wider number of likely COVID symptoms.
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A leadership challenge? Tories give UK PM Johnson months to improve … or go
Dec 20, 2021 12:52After British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a massive rebellion by his backbenchers over COVID rules in the Commons on Tuesday Dec. 14 and a humiliating byelection loss to the Liberal Democrats in the previously safe Conservative seat of North Shropshire two days later, the prime minister is being told he has only three to four months to turn things around or risk being ousted.