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Planning for No Deal Brexit Under Boris Johnson Scuppered UK’s Readiness for a Pandemic, Covid Inquiry Hears
Report exposes delayed pandemic preparation due to government machine having to focus fully on avoiding a crash-out exit from the EU without a deal.
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Outsourced Cleaners at the Department for Education Join Migrant Worker Strike Over ‘Bullying and Institutional Racism’
Low-paid migrant workers, including cleaners at the Department for Education, are taking coordinated strike action in London
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Anger as Labour Refuses to Back Bid to Stop Government Quietly Changing Definition of Disruptive Protest
The government is preparing to quietly amend the definition of disruptive protest in ‘chilling’ change already rejected by peers
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Lawyer Warns COVID Inquiry Chair May Have to Resign if Government Continues to Withhold Key Messages
As the Government battles to not disclose WhatsApps to the official pandemic probe, a solicitor for bereaved families hints at the chair’s potential resignation
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UK Lecturers Face Devastating Salary Deductions in Marking Boycott: Academics Speak Out
University workers are fighting for job security and fair pay. But docking lecturers’ pay risks worsening industrial action, UCU activist Dr Antonia Dawes writes
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Sadiq Khan’s Pollution Paradox: On the Silvertown Tunnel, and When Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Action
Kids in one of London’s poorest boroughs, Newham, are struggling to breathe. So why is the London Mayor pushing ahead with a new road tunnel that could make the situation even worse?
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Anti-Monarchy Campaigners Vow to Resist Home Office Attempts to ‘Intimidate’ Them
The Home Office sent campaign group Republic a letter setting out new powers to crush “disruptive” protests ahead of planned peaceful protests against King Charles, Josiah Mortimer reports
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UK Lags Behind on Press Freedom as Media Dominated by Handful of Oligarchs and the Rich Target Journalists
Just three media groups dominate the national newspaper market – and help shape our political narrative, while the Government has failed to act against ‘lawfare’, a new report finds
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Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
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Hundreds of Police Stations Have Shut Under the Conservatives – at a Cost of Rising Crime
Two thirds of police stations in England have closed since 2010. A new study digs into the dire consequences, Josiah Mortimer reports
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Britain Warns ‘Desperate’ and Isolated Boat Migrants Over Self-Harm and Hunger Strikes
While the focus is on UK Government policy to deport migrants to Rwanda, Simon Israel reports on the plight of asylum seeks marooned on the British Indian Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia
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Rishi Sunak Could Be in More Trouble as Maths Announcement May Have Broken Election Rules
The guidance says ministers must take ‘care’ and avoid announcing decisions that could influence elections – such as England’s local elections in just two weeks
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‘Cover up’ Allegations as Most NHS Trusts Say No Staff Died of Covid on Their Watch
EXCLUSIVE: “Conspiracy of silence” among NHS Trusts means most NHS employers recorded not a SINGLE Covid death among their workers during the first two waves
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‘Voter Suppression’: Huge Numbers Set to Lose Vote as Only 2.5% Of ‘Missing Millions’ Apply for Voter ID
Just 50,000 out of an estimated two million voters without ID have applied for the new ‘free’ voter identification certificate ahead of England’s local elections
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Starmer Under Pressure to Commit to PR Voting System and Breaking Up Media Giants from Labour Grassroots
The party’s consultation process for the next manifesto has just closed – as democracy groups call on the Labour Leader to seize the mantle of reform, Josiah Mortimer reports
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Prince Harry to Appear in Person in Phone Hacking Court Case as ‘Teflon Piers’ Faces ‘Both Barrels’
The first senior British Royal to ever enter the witness box in the High Court will allege Piers Morgan oversaw a conspiracy of newsroom criminality at the Daily Mirror, reveals Dan Evans
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‘Young People are Being Let Down by Politics on the Climate Crisis’
The climate crisis is at the top of young people’s agenda but political parties are failing to meet their concerns. Is electoral reform the only hope of change?
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‘It’s Shameful – A Life was Taken’: Anger from Family of Killed Driver as Safety Concerns over Ride-Hailing App Continue
Josiah Mortimer reports on a family’s campaign for change at company Bolt
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Secret Saudi Arms Sales Court Hearing
Anti-arms trade campaigners say UK-made weapons are contributing to thousands of civilian deaths in the devastating Middle Eastern war
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‘Put a Ring on It and Knock Her Up’: The Proud Boys Credo of Far-Right Misogyny
A script read out at the start of every Proud Boys gathering reveals the paradoxes of being a woman in the far-right, and the misogyny inherent in nationalism. Sian Norris reports
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Let’s Continue to Talk About Crimea
At the heart of any resolution of the war in Ukraine is the issue of the Crimean Tatars. Maria Romanenko explains how a play, part of the UK/Ukraine season of culture, explores their subjugation and resistance
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Anti-Strike Bill Gives Grant Shapps Extraordinary Power to Change Workers’ Rights in the UK
The Business Secretary will be able to set minimum service levels for six key sectors — and decide what workers are included in the new strike-busting definitions
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Tufton Street Fossil Fuel Backers Under the Spotlight
The Good Law Project and MPs have fired off a complaint to the Charity Commission alleging major rule breaches by the Global Warming Policy Foundation
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Putin Allies Linked to Forced Deportation of Ukrainian Children
A new report has identified how high-powered Russian individuals in Government and business are responsible for human rights violations, Byline Times reports
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Ministers are Introducing a Form of ‘Pre-Crime’ so Protesters can be Arrested Before they Protest
“It’s out of science fiction. How are they going to guess who’s going to be disruptive?” one leading campaigner asked Byline Times
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Millions Could Lose Right to Vote as Vast Majority Still in Dark Over Voter ID Change, New Poll Shows
Up to two million people could be denied a vote unless they apply for ID – with public awareness about the new rules worryingly low, polling for Byline Times has found
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Foreign Office Fails to Disclose Vital Information on Billion-Pound Developing Countries Fund
Mystery remains around a Government fund that invested heavily in developing countries where a company run by Conservative Party donor also has significant investments
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‘Playing the Blame Game: The Conservatives Love a Good Culprit’
It’s always someone else’s fault – according to the party that has been in power for 13 years (although not according to its cheerleaders), writes Iain Overton
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Rwanda Will No Longer Take Congolese Refugees, as UK Vows to Deport Migrants to the Country
Sian Norris reports as Kigali declares it will not welcome refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, undermining claims it is a safe country to deport migrant people
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NHS Crisis: ‘Record Numbers’ of GPs Seeking Medical Help for Mental Health Issues
GPs have faced a barrage of attacks in the press and briefings from government over the pandemic. It’s taking its toll.
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Government Offers No Dedicated Cash for Councils to Warn People they will Need Voter ID in May Elections
Councils could have to choose between hiring extra staff to implement the change or informing voters that their vote is at risk, Byline Times has learned
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Conservatives Branded ‘Hypocrites’ Over Minimum Service Law Threat to Unions as Lords are No-Shows
Many members of the Conservative Party’s lords bench seem to be taking indefinite strike action, Byline Times analysis suggests
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Mother of Four Refused Housing and Told to Return to Libya Based on Google Search
A council has refused a family homelessness support as they are satisfied the mother has accommodation in a country riven by conflict and violence, Sian Norris reports
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A New York Gala and the Far Right Capture of the Republican Party
Sian Norris analyses how the modern Republican Party has been infiltrated by far-right rhetoric and conspiracy, not least in its determination to wage a ‘war’
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‘They Have Lost the Safety of Their Own Body’: Supporting Ukraine’s Rape Survivors
In Poland, the artist and psychologist Kateryna Shukh runs art therapy sessions for Ukrainian refugee women. Sian Norris spoke to her about the life-changing project
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How Russians Tormented One Occupied Ukrainian Village
Tom Mutch talks to the survivors of Russian occupation in recently-liberated Novopetrovsk and discovers a reign of looting and terror followed by an orderly withdrawal
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The Day Far-Right Hate was Normalised in the House
A debate on asylum accommodation and safeguarding echoed far-right online chat, in a worrying shift of the Conservative Party’s migration rhetoric, Sian Norris reports
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There Can Be No Concessions or Negotiations with Vladimir Putin
Kyiv-based Paul Niland explores why recent calls for Ukraine to come to a ‘peaceful compromise’ with Russia – despite its unprovoked invasion of the country continuing – cannot be adhered to
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The Perils of a Renewed Age of Austerity
Sascha Lavin explores why tax-cuts promised by the Conservative leadership hopefuls are even more dangerous after 12 years of austerity
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‘Mike Deserves It’: A Shocking Emergency 6 January Hearing
A former White House aide gave devastating eyewitness testimony in Congress about Donald Trump’s eagerness to join the insurrectionists who threatened to kill his Vice President
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Emboldened Opposition and a Galvanised Movement: What the End of Roe v Wade Means for Abortion Around the World
The overturning of the seminal 1973 ruling by the US Supreme Court has been met with a mixed reaction by pro-abortion activists globally, reports Sian Norris
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The World Faces a Decade of Global Hunger that Could ‘Irreversibly Degrade Humanity’s Prospects’
Three years ago, Nafeez Ahmed predicted the world could plunge into a long-term global food catastrophe triggered by climate-driven droughts in Asia. Now scientists are warning this could be a precursor to a ‘global polycrisis’
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New Report Challenges Media Mockery of NHS Translation Services
Public spending on translation and interpreter services was reviled by the anti-migrant media. But new figures show the real extent of spending and need, reports Sian Norris
