by Agency Reporter | Jan 19, 2022 | Briefing
THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (CND) has launched a new campaign –Talks not Bombs – to get Britain to attend a crucial nuclear disarmament conference. The First Meeting of States Parties (1MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), will...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 19, 2022 | Briefing
A JOINT INVESTIGATION by Access Now, an organisation defending digital rights of users at risk globally and the Citizen Lab, an organisation that studies digital threats to civil society has identified the use of NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware against...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 18, 2022 | Briefing
THE WORLD’S TEN RICHEST MEN more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion – at a rate of $1.3 billion a day – during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 160 million more...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 18, 2022 | Briefing
IPPR NORTH, a dedicated think tank for the north of England with bases in Manchester and Newcastle, has published research showing that despite the rhetoric, the UK is more regionally divided than ever – and that central government policy has so far undermined the...
by Staff Writer | Jan 17, 2022 | Briefing
USING POWERS given to it by the House of Commons, the Work and Pensions Committee is to obtain and publish a Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned report on disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system after the Department again refused to make...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 17, 2022 | Briefing
AGE UK IS DEMANDING immediate government action to prevent millions more people falling into fuel poverty. With experts predicting that energy bills could rise by up to 50 per cent this spring, adding around £600 to the average annual bill, Age UK is warning that this...
