by Agency Reporter | Jul 14, 2022 | Briefing
IN HIS FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT as Education Secretary, James Cleverly confirmed a £1billion investment to refurbish or rebuild 61 schools, as part of the School Rebuilding Programme. Commenting on the announcement, Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 13, 2022 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT is facing calls for an urgent investigation into evidence gathered by BBC Panorama that points to the systematic killing of unarmed civilians by the SAS in Afghanistan in 2010-11. The Peace Pledge Union (PPU), Britain’s leading pacifist...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 13, 2022 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from the Money and and Mental Health Policy Institute shows that people with mental health problems across the UK are more likely to be experiencing financial difficulty than the wider population. However, these disparities are significantly bigger in...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 12, 2022 | Briefing
THE GENERAL SYNOD has called on the Government to allocate more money for palliative care, as members voted to reaffirm the Church of England’s opposition to a change in the law on Assisted Suicide. Following a debate, members backed a Private Member’s Motion (PMM)...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 12, 2022 | Briefing
AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS OWE THREE TIMES MORE DEBT to Western banks, asset managers and oil traders than to China, and are charged double the interest, according to research released by Debt Justice. Western leaders through the G7 have attributed the failure to make...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 11, 2022 | Briefing
UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS have raised concerns over the expanding application of unilateral sanctions into areas of scientific and academic research and publishing, after reports that academic research submitted by authors from sanctioned countries were being...
