by Agency Reporter | Oct 29, 2021 | Briefing
EVEN AFTER THE CHANGE to universal credit announced in the autumn budget, the poorest fifth of people would have been £380 a year better off on average if the £20-a-week uplift had stayed in place instead, according to analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF)....
by Agency Reporter | Oct 29, 2021 | Briefing
THE CHANCELLOR set the stage for a new high tax economy – rather than the high wage economy pledged by the Prime Minister, or the low tax one favoured by many Conservative MPs – the Resolution Foundation said in its overnight analysis of the Budget and Spending...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 28, 2021 | Briefing
HS2 ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNERS have a High Court hearing today (Thursday, 28 October) in their claim against the impact of the HS2 tunnel in the Chilterns. The legal action seeks to save the River Misbourne, one of a number of rare chalk streams, sitting in an Area of...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 27, 2021 | Briefing
AT AN EVIDENCE SESSION for an inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficked Britons in Syria, former Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Ken Macdonald described the Government’s treatment of British nationals in North-East Syria (NES) as “a...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 27, 2021 | Briefing
FIVE DAYS BEFORE the UN Climate Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, and four days before the G20 Summit in Rome, 72 faith institutions, including 37 from the UK, announced their divestment from fossil fuels in the largest-ever joint divestment announcement by religious...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 26, 2021 | Briefing
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (RSF) has joined a coalition of 25 press freedom, civil liberties, and international human rights organisations in signing a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, again urging the US to drop its appeal in the extradition case of...
