Lowest funded councils join forces to call for ‘levelling up’ funding fix
Some of the lowest paid local authorities in England are calling on the government to provide a £300m temporary injection to their finances.
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Moderna and Pfizer shares skyrocket by almost £8bn in week after omicron discovery
The scale of the profiteering from the pandemic by pharmaceutical giants comes amid warnings that coronavirus variants will keep surfacing unless wealthy nations and vaccine manufacturers do more to address vaccination inequity.
Tory MP’s war on wokeness gains traction in right-wing press
Sir John Hayes has taken his support of the ‘Britain Uncancelled’ campaign to the pages of the Daily Mail.
‘Lost credibility’: Europe reacts to the Downing Street Christmas party fiasco
A glance at the European newspapers shows the backlash over the No. 10 Christmas party controversy isn’t confined to British soil.
COP26: Government must ‘walk the talk’, says climate advisors
Britain is ‘nowhere near’ meeting climate targets, officials warn.
Labour urges government to come clean over alleged hidden disability benefit cut
Anneliese Dodds highlighted a £70m cut to disability benefits on International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Homophobic and transphobic hate crime soared during pandemic, report finds
Government’s hate crime strategy in the spotlight as new report shows rising levels of sexual orientation and transgender identity abuse.
‘Epic karma’: Plug pulled on Nigel Farage’s anti-cancel culture conference
It has been suggested the right-wing ‘Counter Conference’ was cancelled due to lack of support.
Black Friday protests: Extinction Rebellion barricades Amazon facilities
As Amazon prepares to make £2bn in UK Black Friday sales, campaigners targeted the company’s distribution centres in protest of the multinational’s treatment of workers.
France cancels migrant crisis meeting with Priti Patel after ‘unacceptable’ Johnson letter
The humiliating disinvitation of Britain’s presence at such an important inter-ministerial meeting draws even greater reproach of the UK’s tough immigration approach.