In this issue

November 18, 2022

Fall in living standards.ushered in as Hunt delivers 'grim' economic outlook

Britain is facing the sharpest fall in living standards for generations, as the chancellor confirmed the UK is now ina recession expected to last until 2024.

4 mins

Hunt set Labour a trap but it won’t matter at the polls

Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak had three audiences in mind when they drew up yesterday’s autumn statement, in which the tax rises were the very opposite of Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous tax-cutting mini-Budget only 55 days ago.

3 mins

Even a bore like Hunt can't dilute this Tory madness

Yet another day, then, to just breathe it all in. Events not to try to understand, but merely to wonder at.

3 mins

Windfall tax and insulation: how green is the 'growth'?

Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement will not mirror the wishlist of policies advocated by environmentalists and climate campaigners in the UK and abroad.

4 mins

Trust breaks down as UN chief looks to bridge divide

In the final 24-hour stretch of Cop27, countries remain bitterly divided over the path forward on the global climate crisis.

2 mins

‘Women and girls get the short end of the straw’

Sabrina Dhowre Elba, actor and partner of British star Idris Elba, speaks to Louise Boyle from Cop27, as a UN goodwill ambassador pushing the importance of agriculture on climate

4 mins

Snow and a month’s worth of rain to hit parts of nation

The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning over parts of Scotland for today as more than a month’s rain is expected to fall over 24 hours, with the Highlands likely to receive snow.

2 mins

Record low of 32% think UK was right to leave EU

Just 32 per cent of British voters now think the UK was right to leave the EU, a new poll has found.

2 mins

Wet pet food is eight times worse for the environment

Swapping the sort of food your dog eats could cut its impact on the climate dramatically, new research has shown.

2 mins

Pelosi hailed a giant’ as she exits Democrat leadership

House speaker overwhelmed’ by response to resignation

4 mins

Farewell the most powerful woman in US politics ever

The day representative Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, became leader of the House Democratic caucus, the song at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart was Eminem’s Lose Yourself”.

7 mins

US midterm results could cause mayhem in the House

Many days after Republicans hoped to announce they had taken control of the House of Representatives, the threshold has finally been passed but the crowing tweets from GOP leadership seemed a little forced given the slim majority the party will hold.

2 mins

Three found guilty of killing nearly 300 on MH17 flight

Russian agents convicted eight years after plane shot down

2 mins

At least 21 people dead after fire in Gaza refugee camp

At least 21 people were killed and several others injured after a fire broke out at a party in a residential building in Gaza.

1 min

Briton among nearly 6,000 prisoners freed in Myanmar

Myanmar’s military government has released almost 6,000 prisoners under mass amnesty, including an ex-British diplomat, an Australian economist and a Japanese documentary maker, to mark its National Day.

2 mins

Hunt's autumn statement should be cheered by Labour

Rachel Reeves, in her response to the autumn statement, accused the chancellor of playing politics by attempting to lay so-called traps for the Labour Party”.

3 mins

Labour has a new great clunking fist’ in Reeves

Voters need to ask themselves one important question, we were told immediately after the chancellor had stood down: Are me and my family better off with a Conservative government? And the answer is no.”

3 mins

A Christmas fit for a king

Perhaps you think the royals celebrate differently from the rest of us but you'd be wrong, writes Jeremy Archer. In fact, their influence has been pervasive in the UK and the world

6 mins

‘There is only one objective for Brazil: to be champions’

Luiz Felipe Scolari has tasted glory and humiliating defeat with the Selecao. He tells Chris Evans about the challenges of competing as manager for the game’s greatest prize

4 mins

Meet the Scottish Socceroo aiming to down the French

Thanks to his Sydney-born father, Hibs winger Martin Boyle could line up against the world champions in Qatar. He talks to Richard Jolly about swapping Aberdeen for Australia

4 mins

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