Peer condemned over Islamophobic comments during Afghanistan debate
‘The number of people who seem to equate the Taliban with all Muslims and Islam as a whole shows an outstanding level of ignorance’.
Basit Mahmood
Dominic Raab urged to quit after being ‘too busy’ on holiday to make phone call about saving Afghan interpreters
The foreign secretary was in Crete on Sunday while the Taliban was taking over Kabul.
Firefighters accuse those who downplay threat of climate change of being ‘criminally complacent’
The FBU says ‘climate catastrophe is the number one global issue facing the planet’.
Priti Patel ridiculed after handing taxpayer-funded job to former Taxpayers’ Alliance boss
The TaxPayers’ alliance has previously criticised spending vast amounts of public cash on ‘spin doctors’.
Andrew Neil ‘may never return to GB News’ amid clash with boss
Insiders say that Neil has been ‘frozen out of decision making’.
GCSE results: Gap between poorer and wealthier students continues to widen
There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.
A quarter of bosses are not giving staff paid time off to get vaccinated
Polling also found that 26 percent of employers had not been paying full company sick pay to staff who are off sick with COVID vaccine side effects.
Tories face backlash over plans that could allow animal testing for cosmetic ingredients
Animal testing on ingredients exclusively used in cosmetics was banned in the UK in 1998.
Tory climate minister accused of hypocrisy after travelling to 30 countries in 7 months without isolating
‘One rule for them, another for us’.
Backlash continues over Boris Johnson’s ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines
‘These are shameful comments from Boris Johnson, and reveal the Conservative party’s utter disregard for the communities still scarred by Thatcher’s closure of the mines’