by Agency Reporter | Aug 5, 2021 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE – indeed refusal – to make contingency plans for schools and exams in the summer of 2020 is the most “unforgiveable aspect” of its handling of education during the coronavirus pandemic, says a new report by the Institute for...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 4, 2021 | Briefing
A RETIRED MEMBER OF THE CLERGY sewed his lips shut and stood outside the main entrance of News Corps UK offices at the Shard in London on 2 August 2021. His aim was to draw attention to the silencing of climate science by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, which has led to...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 4, 2021 | Briefing
SAUDI ARABIA HAS INTENSIFIED its persecution of human rights defenders and dissidents after a lull in prosecutions during the country’s recent year-long G20 presidency, says Amnesty International in a new report. Saudi Arabia’s presidency – which ran from December...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 3, 2021 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) has called for umbrella companies to be banned, as it publishes a new report on their increasingly widespread use in the UK labour market. The union body says the scandalous workplace practices associated with umbrella companies have...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 3, 2021 | Briefing
UN EXPERTS HAVE CALLED for all mercenaries and mercenary-related private contractors to leave Libya, saying their departure is long overdue, and is a vital precondition to peaceful elections scheduled for later in 2021. “Nine months after the ceasefire agreement...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 2, 2021 | Briefing
COVID-19 HAS CREATED a ‘perfect storm’ of existing inequality and disease, leading to higher rates of coronavirus infections and death amongst the most disadvantaged people, the Local Government Association in England has warned. A lack of access to skills and...
