‘They’re lying to you’: Editor interrupts Russian TV news broadcast with ‘no war’ protest
‘No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.’
Basit Mahmood
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‘Putin go f*** yourself’: Squatters occupy mansion owned by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska
“You occupy Ukraine, we occupy you.”
Sajid Javid defends ‘economic relationship’ with Saudi Arabia after country executes 81 people in single day
“While it is to be welcomed that we don’t send money to Putin of course, would we want to deals with the Saudis, noting their human rights record?”
Half of UK children ‘will have to sacrifice essentials like food’ due to cost of living crisis, report warns
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says that 23.4 million people in the UK will be short by more than £8,500 a year for income needed to pay for essentials including food, heating and clothing by next month.
Nigel Farage ridiculed after complaining about government sanctioning Russian oligarchs
‘The Russian Embassy in London might as well pack up and go home. Farage is doing their job for them’
EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters support waiving visa requirements for Ukrainian refugees, poll finds
The poll, carried out by Savanta ComRes, found that 60% of voters would support the UK not requiring a visa for Ukrainian refugees to resettle in the UK, whereas just 15% would oppose such a move.
Labour suspends John Bercow after report finds him guilty of bullying
The 89-page report said that Bercow’s conduct was “so serious that he should never be allowed a pass to the Parliamentary estate; and that if he were still a MP it would have recommended expelling him from the House”.
Government continues to bury its head in the sand over Islamophobia
Kemi Badenoch refused to even use the word Islamophobia in her answers
Tory MPs suggest Priti Patel changes law so Russia’s “enablers” in House of Lords can be stripped of their peerages
Questions continue to be raised over Johnson’s role in pushing for a peerage for Evgeny Lebedev.