by Agency Reporter | Apr 13, 2022 | Briefing
A COLLAPSE of public satisfaction with politicians, the current democratic system and the ability of voters to affect government decisions is revealed by polling for a new IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) report on UK democracy. Only around one person in 20...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 12, 2022 | Briefing
THE NINE NUCLEAR-ARMED STATES had a combined arsenal of 12,705 nuclear warheads at the beginning of 2022. Of these, an estimated 9,440 warheads – with a collective yield equivalent to approximately 138,000 Hiroshima-bombs – constituted usable stockpiles, available for...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 12, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows the greatest fall in the value of the basic rate of unemployment benefit since 1972. The 3.1 per cent increase that came into effect on 11 April is based on inflation as of last September, whereas inflation is...
by Staff Writer | Apr 11, 2022 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT IS SET TO REJECT a key recommendation from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that would require personal emergency evacuation plans for disabled people in high-rise buildings. Speaking in the House of Lords during the third reading of the...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 11, 2022 | Briefing
New figures released by the government state that 12,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK; 10,800 under the Ukraine Family Scheme and 1,200 under the Ukraine Sponsorship scheme. Responding to the figures, Enver Solomon, CEO of Refugee Council, said: “These...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 10, 2022 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have responded to the British Energy Security Strategy published by the government on 7 April. In the week when the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has set out how the world can avert climate catastrophe,...
