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Be warned: Inflation could take British politics to a very dark place indeed
Aug 06, 2022 12:09Britons are to brace for a recession that will see five consecutive quarters of contraction, and a decline in household incomes of 5% by 2024 – the biggest fall since records began more than half a century ago.
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Greenpeace sues UK government to stop massive offshore drilling project
Jul 29, 2022 15:31Greenpeace filed suit against the United Kingdom government recently, contending that the recent approval of a new North Sea gas field was unlawful because officials refused to evaluate how greenhouse gas pollution from Shell's so-called Jackdaw project will exacerbate the climate emergency.
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UK Health Department played ‘fast and loose’ when awarding COVID contracts to Randox
Jul 28, 2022 05:10At the start of the COVID pandemic in March 2020, the UK Health Department gave the first contract, worth £133m, to healthcare firm Randox without allowing any other firms to bid. The government had suspended normal rules for awarding contracts as the pandemic was deemed to be an emergency.
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Interest rates: The three central banks facing one tricky balancing act
Jul 27, 2022 04:50In the fight against inflation the European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of England and US Federal Reserve risk either doing too much too soon, or too little too late.
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Travel chaos is ‘the new normal’ after Brexit, British tourists are warned
Jul 26, 2022 04:04The UK Labour Chair, Anneliese Dodds, said: “While the Conservatives fight among themselves, British families are stuck waiting hours on end to begin their family holiday as the chaos in Dover Port continues, and once again the government has failed to get a grip.”
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Why do the minority in England who haven’t had COVID account for most new infections?
Jul 24, 2022 04:21About 15% of people in England have never had COVID. But in the current wave, driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, this minority group still accounts for 55% of infections. How can so few be contributing so much?
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‘The way it’s playing out is unexpected’: UK faces up to changing waves of Covid
Jul 23, 2022 04:03As infections soar in the third major coronavirus wave this year, British experts say Covid may never settle into a seasonal cycle.
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Boris Johnson spends last days in office laying minefield for his successor (1)
Jul 16, 2022 04:48A day after Boris Johnson resigned as British prime minister but announced that he would remain as “caretaker prime minister” while the Conservative Party chose its new leader, the disgraced leader was hit with another scandal.
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Wide-open race for Tory leadership lays bare UK party divisions
Jul 14, 2022 04:36Former Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak, whose resignation alongside former Health Secretary Sajid Javid set off the mass walkout that led to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s downfall, is a controversial figure for Tory leadership in his party despite his staunch backing from MPs, and is blamed by many Tories for the rapid increase in the tax burden on his watch.
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'Broken' capitalist food system drives soaring global hunger: Oxfam
Jul 11, 2022 09:54Around 1 in 10 people went hungry last year in a world losing ground on its collective goal of ending all forms of hunger, a report released recently by United Nations agencies revealed, prompting sharp censure from a leading charity.