4 h. ago Scottish social justice secretary urges Chancellor not to slash Motability car scheme

SNP’s Shirley-Anne Somerville writes to UK ministers warning them not to balance the books at the expense of disabled people.

Society

24 h. ago Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer

UK expected to reduce contribution to Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 20%A group of seven Labour MPs who served as ministers under Keir Starmer have written to the prime minister warning that an expected cut to UK funding for aid to combat preventable diseases would be both a “moral failure” and a strategic disaster.With ministers and officials expected to decide the UK’s contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria within days, the letter renews pressure on Starmer to pull back from an expected 20% cut. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago UK Budget: Scots firms urge John Swinney to 'resist temptation' to copy UK government tax rises

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) and the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) both warned the First Minister that raising income tax would ‘hit workers’ and not help the economy

Economics

3 d. ago Former first minister warns of ‘frightening’ rise in Islamophobia in UK and US

"“We cannot be passive as the threat of the far-right continues to rise."

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3 d. ago Former first minister Humza Yousaf warns of ‘frightening’ rise in Islamophobia in UK and US

Conspiracies and lies ‘hauntingly reminiscent’ of language used about Jews in the 1930s, former SNP leader to tell Washington DC audience

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4 d. ago Minister doubles down on Reeves’ doom warning: ‘We will do what’s right for the future of our economy’

While the education secretary insisted the government takes its manifesto pledges seriously, she said there are ‘major problems’ plaguing the economy

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6 d. ago Hong Kong court rejects Tiananmen vigil organizer's bid to quash indictment

A Hong Kong court has rejected an attempt by former Tiananmen vigil organizer Chow Hang-tung to quash her indictment

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6 d. ago Weaker forecasts will have ‘consequences’ at Budget, warns minister

John Healey insisted no decisions had been made on the final shape of the Budget to be delivered on November 26.

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7 d. ago Ministers were warned that jail which wrongly freed Ethiopian sex attack migrant had 'litany of issues and errors' over prisoner release

The error at HMP Chelmsford, in Essex, saw Hadush Kebatu freed when he should have been handed to immigration officers.

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7 d. ago Ministers were warned of errors at jail that released sex offender by mistake

Chaotic release procedures at HMP Chelmsford were flagged to the prisons minister last yearMinisters were warned by a watchdog that prisoners were “falling through the cracks” of chaotic release procedures at the jail that mistakenly freed a convicted child sex offender.An annual report on HMP Chelmsford uncovered “a litany of issues and errors” including “a mix-up of release dates” when letting out a vulnerable prisoner. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Labour struggles to contain fresh NHS strike threats as unions dismiss 2.5% pay rise... despite ministers warning taxpayers can't afford more

The government's evidence to the NHS pay review body has delivered a stark warning that any increase above that level next year could force cuts to services and staff.

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9 d. ago Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit

Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free tradeThe Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has warned that the era of free trade and investment that formed the foundations of the postwar global economy has ended.In a stark message to Asia-Pacific leaders at the Apec summit in South Korea on Friday, Carney said rules-based open trade no longer worked in a global economy that was undergoing one of its most profound periods of change since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago I was spat on for being Black – but Britain is not racist, says David Lammy

The deputy prime minister hit out at Reform MP’s remarks over adverts, warning they marked a return to ‘flagrant racism’

Politics

1 week ago Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE

A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootless white males’ Just days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House shared an interesting picture on X. The image, which appears to be AI-generated, shows President Donald Trump wearing the armour of Halo’s iconic protagonist, Master Chief, standing in salute in front of an American flag that’s missing several stars. In his left hand is an energy sword, a weapon used by the alien enemies in the Halo games. Posted in response to a tweet from US game retailer GameStop, the text accompanying the image reads “Power to the Players” in reference to the store’s slogan.GameStop and the White House exchanged another Halo meme or two, and then, on 27 October, the official Department of Homeland Security X account joined in – using Halo imagery of a futuristic soldier in ...

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1 week ago Theresa May slaps down Robert Jenrick for turning judges into ‘villains’

The former prime minister also warned the Tories must stop chasing the Reform party

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1 week ago Racism of 70s and 80s back on the streets of London, warns Cabinet minister Wes Streeting

The Ilford North Labour MP stressed he had thought that such abuse had been confined to the ‘history books’

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2 w. ago Tanzania's first female president has defied early hopes that she would ease repression

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who rose from the vice presidency to become the country’s first female leader in 2021, is seeking her first elected term in office in a vote set for Oct. 29

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2 w. ago MPs deliver 'grim' verdict on Labour's oil and gas strategy amid 'heaving job losses' warning

Labour ministers have been warned the “scale-up of clean energy is progressing more slowly than the decline of the oil and gas sector” with jobs being lost as a result.

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2 w. ago Disorder will be met with ‘very forceful response’, Justice Minister warns

Further violent behaviour around asylum seeker accommodation in Dublin will be met with a ‘very forceful response’, Ireland’s justice minister said.

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2 w. ago Explosive leaked letter gives damning verdict on how Post Office victims are treated

In a letter to Post Office Minister Blair McDougall, Victims Commissioner Baroness Newlove warned wronged postmasters feel compensation schemes are 'worse than the original injustice'

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