Millions of people face emotional and financial crisis if England returns to a tiered system of restrictions after lockdown, the British Red Cross has warned. The charity polled more than 2,000 people between October and December last year to look at the impact of the tiered system on their finances and mental wellbeing. It found … Read more
A Conservative backbench rebellion designed to give the UK courts a role in determining whether a country is committing genocide appears to have been frustrated by what rebels claimed was government chicanery and a denial of democracy. Ministers arranged Tuesday’s vote so that if the rebels back an amendment passed by the Lords giving the … Read more
Remember the great Green surge of 2015, when the party peaked at 11%? Probably not: that was another political universe, where any mention of the term “Brexit” required a definition, Jeremy Corbyn was a little-known principled backbencher, Donald Trump was best recognised as an absurd reality TV star, and pandemics were the stuff of dystopian … Read more
GB News launches soon with Andrew Neil as its head and, for that matter, face. Reports suggest that journalists being sought out to staff the channel have been told it will be “positioned to the right of the BBC” – though Neil himself has said merely that it will serve the “vast number of British … Read more
Ten years ago this month, Mark Lehain, a former headteacher, was feeling deflated. His attempt to become one of the first free school leaders after the election of the coalition government had just been put on hold. “We had lots of support, but we couldn’t secure the site in time, so people were applying for … Read more