Basit Mahmood
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'
Government urged to cancel ‘discriminatory’ mass deportation flight to Jamaica that will ‘tear people away from their families’
Human rights group Liberty has described the deportation flights as 'cruel'.