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The ITV News Exposure documentary Undercover: A Year In Reform raised questions about Reform's vetting procedures for candidates following undercover filming. The party's Hampshire leader George Madgwick was featured…
Read moreThe post was made in defence of the critically acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who said she had been forced to pull her books from shelves in the UK after pledging proceeds from their sales to Palestine Action.…
Read moreIt's about time for the chancellor to act. Banks have been raking it in. The campaign group Positive Money reported this summer that Britain's four biggest banks made £29bn in the first half of this year, up a fifth on…
Read moreRobbins had applied to the high court for a judicial review of the prime minister's decision to remove him as the top civil servant at the Foreign Office after he was dismissed in April. He was removed from his post by…
Read moreThe FDA union, which represented him in the legal action, said Sir Olly had been made a "scapegoat" to "mask the misjudgement" of Sir Keir. How much Sir Olly received in the settlement has not been made public. It came…
Read moreItaly and Greece joined the Visegrád Four — Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — in calling for a delay, a push rejected by the majority of countries. The debate dragged on, delaying lunch (spare a thought for our…
Read moreAt the same time, the solution is obvious. Humanity is the only thing that can control the remarkable and promising technology it has invented — and therefore must. The catalogue of fears is long. Mass unemployment . The…
Read moreAbout 50 developers have been lent more than £1bn between them from a fund managed by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) since 2015. John Leech, the chairman of the GMCA's Overview and Scrutiny Committee…
Read moreThere’s an “awakening” happening right now among workers in Ireland’s tech sector, and a growing “awareness that they’re not bulletproof,” said Sinéad Gibney, a social democrat lawmaker who previously worked for Google.…
Read moreThat draft strategy is “out of date,” one senior Scottish government official said. They said a new strategy, expected by the summer, will not contain this wording. A second person with knowledge of the policy said the…
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