The German Government on Wednesday approved putting coal power plants back online from October until the end of March 2024 to address scarce natural gas this winter and avoid shortages.
Following the summer's debanking scandal the FCA launched an urgent inquiry. Yet disgracefully it has found no evidence of wrongdoing in what amounts to a blatant cover-up.
SNP leader Humza Yousaf may be leading his party towards electoral disaster, but that's no reason not to put him on the cover of Time magazine and laud him as a "next generation leader", it seems.
Was anyone tempted by Sunak's raised offer of £7,500 for switching to a heat pump, asks Ysenda Maxtone Graham. "I don't think so" – because they're noisy, pricey and never get warm enough.
Banks are sticking to green pledges that will see thousands turned down for mortgages if they don't spend a small fortune making their homes more energy efficient, despite Rishi Sunak's climbdown on Net Zero.
Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes?
Scotland's crisis-hit NHS is to begin a "programme of reparations" to Jamaica and Africa – paid for out of existing healthcare budgets – in a bid to "make amends" for slavery links dating from the 18th century.
Laurence Fox has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras after uploading a video online of police appearing to search his home.
You probably haven't heard of Sean Corby, but he has just won a huge victory for free speech – thanks to him opposition to Critical Race Theory has been recognised by a court as a 'protected belief' for the first time.
Why did anyone think that Sharon White, a career civil servant, was the right person to lead John Lewis? Did they have something other than the best person for the job in mind?
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