Oil and gas giant Shell’s profit has doubled since the previous year.
A fresh wave of strike action is coming to Britain’s education sector, as school and university staff fight years of below-inflation pay deals and worsening conditions.
Conservative Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi is at the centre of yet another row in Westminster this week – and is facing calls to resign – for lying about his finances and failing to declare a penalty he paid to HMRC.
Rishi Sunak has announced the allocation of a second round of ‘levelling up’ funds to areas across the UK – building the appearance of affluent communities, while failing to address the real causes of poverty.
Research from Sky News and Tortoise has uncovered more than £183 million in donations and ‘earnings’ into British politics during this Parliamentary term.
Haiti’s last sitting Senators left office on Monday, January 9, leaving the country with no elected government officials. Much of Haiti’s legislature has sat empty since 2020, after planned elections failed to be completed, and now the country’s last 10 Senators have reached the end of their terms too.
In late December the Scottish Tories, the same people responsible for this crisis in the NHS, stated they are seeking ‘progressive’ leadership to address the “deepening crisis in Scotland’s NHS”.
Syria and Türkiye held high-level talks for the first time in over a decade last week, despite ongoing conflict between Turkish and Turkish-backed forces against the Syrian government.
The new leader of the Trades Union Congress has joined Kier Starmer’s Labour in calling for milquetoast reform and economic restraint.
According to Sussex police, in the last six months, seventy children have disappeared from hotel accommodations run by the Home Office across Hove.
The National Crime Agency is carrying out an investigation into PPE Medpro, a company that won itself millions in Covid related contracts after Tory peer Michelle Mone recommended the company to the government.
On Saturday 10 December 2022, the London Branch of the Young Communist League of Britain gave remembrance to The British Battalion, who had returned to London via Victoria Station on 7 December 1938, after serving as volunteer fighters during the Spanish Civil War.
On Wednesday 7 December, Peruvian polive removed President Pedro Castillo from office and placed him under arrest.
Last week Nadhim Zahawi, Conservative Party Chairman, told nurses via Sophy Ridge’s Sky News programme that he felt striking was “the wrong thing to do” and insinuated that their upcoming industrial action this month would be playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands.
Strike action by Unite, GMB, and Unison in Scottish local authorities this year was a heroic but difficult fight, with unions facing many hurdles in the process.
On Monday, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an end to the “golden era” of UK-China relations.
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland cannot hold a new independence referendum without the UK parliament’s approval. In a unanimous judgement, the court argued the matter of an independence referendum was reserved for Westminster, not Holyrood
Yesterday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal met with Gennady Zyuganov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). The meeting is part of a wider tour on which the Cuban leader seeks to strengthen Cuba’s relationship with a number of countries across the world
The G20 summit was held in Bali, Indonesia, earlier this week. The meeting saw world leaders discuss environment, inflation, and the war in Ukraine, among other issues
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has voted to take strike action across the UK for the first time in the union’s history. Members will be striking to fight against worsening pay and conditions, as the latest union to take action in this year’s wave of strikes.
