UK poverty report: 1.8 million children are growing up in deep poverty
There are 500,000 more children living in significant poverty in 2019/20 compared to 2011/12
Basit Mahmood
Mainly foreign owned GB News to play the national anthem every day
The same GB News that is largely foreign owned, with its start up cash down to two foreign investors.
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Boris Johnson hands out gongs to people he sacked so he can keep skeletons in the closet
John Whittingdale and Nick Gibb, who were also sacked from government, will also be handed knighthoods to ‘keep them quiet, its been reported.
Nadine Dorries turns attention to destroying the BBC in bid to save Boris Johnson
Dorries said that “state-run TV has had its day”.
Carole Cadwalladr in court today to fight defamation claim by Brexit backer Arron Banks
Whatever the outcome of the ruling, it will have far-reaching consequences for public interest journalism in our country.
Deputy editor of the Sun James Slack apologises for lockdown party at No 10 held in his honour
Could this explain why the Sun hasn’t gone in harder on Downing Street parties?
Jacob Rees-Mogg says ‘rules were very hard for people to obey’ while defending Boris Johnson
His remarks will likely lead to a further backlash
Jacob Rees-Mogg makes Tory crisis worse by turning it into a crisis of unionism
‘It is a telling insight into the arrogant and dismissive attitude that the Tory government has towards Scotland as a whole.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…