11 h. ago Rachel Reeves forced to deny she lied before the Budget as calls grow for her to quit

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing growing criticism over her comments ahead of the Budget, after it emerged the watchdog told her privately there was no structural black hole

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5 d. ago Rachel Reeves blames sexism for criticism she's getting over the Budget as troubles grow

The Chancellor has begged Labour MPs to get behind her plans, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap, and accused critics of targeting her because she is a woman

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1 week ago Government to make major statement to nation in Parliament at 3.30pm as criticism grows

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will lay out a series of reforms to the asylum system in the House of Commons on Monday aimed at making Britain a less attractive destination for illegal migrants

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2 w. ago Top MIT scientist blasts 'climate hysteria,' says global warming fears are driven by money... not evidence

A climate scientist with decades of experience has joined the growing opposition to what critics of climate change alarmism call nonsense science.

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2 w. ago Sydney Sweeney steps out in a chic mini dress as she shrugs off criticism after disastrous Christy movie flop amid growing backlash

Sydney Sweeney shrugged off criticism surrounding her disastrous Christy movie flop, as she stepped out in a chic mini dress on Saturday.

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3 w. ago As criticism grows, is UAE ready to walk away from Sudan’s RSF militia?

After mass killings in El Fasher and four years on from a coup, UAE now admits its Sudan policy has gone wrongThe United Arab Emirates’ diplomatic machine is for the first time admitting to mistakes in its Sudan policy after suffering reputational damage over its support for the Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese paramilitary group that has carried out mass killings in El Fasher since it captured the city late last month.Speaking in Bahrain on Sunday, Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s senior diplomatic envoy, said the UAE and others had been wrong not to impose sanctions on the instigators of the 2021 coup – jointly led by the RSF and the army – that overthrew Sudan’s transitional civilian government. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community actsIt unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading...

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