Charities that support politically or culturally contentious causes should expect their charitable status to come under regulatory scrutiny even if they are acting within the law, according to the outgoing chair of the Charity Commission. The Tory peer Tina Stowell, who is stepping down after three years in the post, warned charities against being “captured” … Read more
Ministers should take a cautious approach to lifting lockdown in England so that new coronavirus cases can be driven down to a manageable level of 1,000 a day, Jeremy Hunt has said. In an interview with the Guardian, the former health secretary and current chair of the health select committee said the government should aim … Read more
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A teenager who verbally abused Prof Chris Whitty in the street has had his PlayStation confiscated by his mother as punishment, it has been reported. The boy’s behaviour was widely condemned after a video emerged showing him repeatedly accusing England’s chief medical officer of lying about the pandemic. As Whitty was buying lunch at a … Read more
“> Halima Begum, the chief executive of the Runnymede Trust, said she had first raised concerns about the dangerous exposure of these communities in March last year. “This isn’t about vaccine refusal, because that very rhetoric implies that these communities are doing something wrong, it’s their fault somehow,” she said. “We need to balance the … Read more