by Agency Reporter | Sep 16, 2021 | Briefing
THE SIX MILLION UNIVERSAL CREDIT CLAIMANTS set for a £1,000 annual income loss from this October are unlikely to make up the shortfall given the scale of extra pay or hours needed to offset the £20 a week cut, says the Resolution Foundation. The Foundation says that...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 16, 2021 | Briefing
DESPITE 52 PER CENT OF THE PUBLIC saying they do not regard themselves as belonging to any religion, new research among British adults has revealed that over two-thirds of us (69 per cent) still consider it important to understand other people’s beliefs in everyday...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 15, 2021 | Briefing
BRITISH QUAKERS have helped to coordinate a joint open letter to the government about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which has been signed by over 350 organisations. Quakers in Britain are on the steering committee for an alliance of groups campaigning...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 15, 2021 | Briefing
MORE THAN 140 FORMER HEADS OF STATE and government and Nobel laureates have called on the candidates for the next German Chancellor to declare themselves in favour of waiving intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and transferring vaccine technologies, and...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 14, 2021 | Briefing
THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (CND) has been granted Core Participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI). The judge-led inquiry into undercover policing, chaired by Sir John Mitting QC, is now set to examine evidence that the UK’s best-known peace...
