7 h. ago TV staff fear losing jobs after speaking out against Gino D'Acampo's 'abusive' behaviour

Following a string of allegations regarding Gino D'Acampo's alleged behaviour, TV staff have told how they fear repercussions after speaking out

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28 h. ago Soaring numbers of women lose jobs while pregnant or on maternity leave, research suggests

Research from Pregnant Then Screwed, in partnership with Women in Data, estimated that potentially 74,000 women a year are fired or made redundant while pregnant or on maternity leave

Politics

53 h. ago Nearly 6,000 veterans have lost jobs in Musk purge, Democrats say

If DOGE chief does trim down 75 percent of the federal workforce, up to 500,000 veterans could lose their jobs

Politics

56 h. ago Wes Streeting to axe thousands of jobs at NHS England after ousting of chief executive

NHS staff fear power grab by health department as health secretary looks to shrink body due to ‘duplication’ of rolesWes Streeting will axe thousands of jobs at NHS England after his ousting of its chair and chief executive in what health service staff fear is a power grab.The health secretary’s plan follows Amanda Pritchard’s shock announcement on Monday that she was stepping down as the organisation’s chief executive next month. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago FBI, Pentagon refuse to reply to Musk’s ‘what did you achieve last week?’ email

Musk said anyone who didn’t respond within 48 hours would lose their job

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5 d. ago Musk says all federal employees must answer email about what they did last week — or lose their jobs

The emails require federal employees to respond by 11:59 p.m. Monday, according to reports

Society

7 d. ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe 'has Man Utd staff spy' as they fear 'axe hanging over head all the time'

There is a 'growing culture of fear' among staff at Manchester United, reports say - one source even reported that some memebers of the workforce are worried about a spy

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7 d. ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe 'has a spy' among Man Utd staff amid 'growing culture of fear' at club

Sir Jim Ratcliffe owns a 28.94 per cent stake in Manchester United and his brutal cost-cutting strategy has made him an unpopular figure both inside and outside of Old Trafford

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8 d. ago Melanie Sykes speaks out on Gino D'Acampo and blasts 'abomination' ITV show

TV star Melanie Sykes has accused in TV industry of 'creating monsters' and has previously slammed Gregg Wallace's behaviour

Culture

8 d. ago Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor review – an SF master moves into the mainstream

This book within a book weaves a writer’s struggles with scenes from their Africanfuturist tale of post-apocalyptic robotsIn Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor, one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of our time, moves into mainstream literary fiction. Her protagonist is Zelu, a prickly, mercurial, iconoclastic writer who gets high in inappropriate situations, hooks up promiscuously, and ends up quarrelling with everyone, especially her large, overprotective Nigerian American family. She is also paraplegic, and has PTSD from the accident that left her disabled at the age of 12.As the book begins, she loses her job as a writing professor for giving an entitled student a brutal critique, on the same day that her novel is rejected by a 10th publisher, and while she is at her sister’s wedding, under an onslaught of uncensored judgment from all her most conservative family members. It’s at this moment, when “[her] face was crusty and itchy with dried tears  her mind...

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