The £10.5 billion cost of compensation for Waspi women – which Labour has said it is now considering paying out afresh – would wipe out the money raised by a 1p income tax rise, figures show.
Trust in the BBC has been collapsing for years. For many, it finally died during Covid when the national broadcaster took on the role of chief cheerleader for the lockdowns, no dissent allowed. A reckoning is long overdue.
Reform UK’s "racist rhetoric" is tearing Britain apart and such talk should have been "dealt with" decades ago, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
Ed Miliband is set to make the same 12,000-mile round trip twice in two weeks to attend COP30 – a climate conference to discuss reducing global CO2 emissions – at a cost to the taxpayer of £22,000.
The Bell Hotel in Epping can continue to house asylum seekers, a judge ruled today, as he said the change of use from a hotel was "not flagrant" and denied there is evidence of a high crime rate among asylum seekers.
St George's flags are creating "no-go zones" for NHS staff, leaving them feeling intimidated, including when they are visiting people in their homes, senior NHS leaders have said.
The Olympics is set to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence that reportedly showed there are irreversible physical advantages to being born male.
President Trump has threatened the BBC with legal action – as its Chair Samir Shah insists the corporation is not institutionally biased and fails to apologise to him.
Donald Trump's White House is poised to deport the boss of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, an internet censorship organisation founded by Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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