In this issue

May 29, 2023

US steps in on Afghan pilot as UK stalls on offer to help

The White House has made an extraordinary intervention in the case of an Afghan pilot threatened with deportation to Rwanda by pledging to look into his case as the UK government continues to stall

4 mins

Health services to be hit as workers left out of pay deal

End-of-life care and other vital health services face cutbacks or rationing after thousands of staff were excluded from a new government pay deal, it has been warned

2 mins

Barclay rows back on Tory pledge to build 40 hospitals

The health secretary has admitted that the government’s promised 40 new hospitals actually include “a range” of building works

2 mins

Doctors' degrees could be cut short to plug NHS gaps

Ministers desperate to plug NHS shortages are floating plans to shorten doctors’ training by a year

3 mins

Johnson on the back foot over fresh Chequers claims

Boris Johnson’s political future looks increasingly in doubt after fresh claims emerged about visitors to Chequers while Covid restrictions were in place

3 mins

The government guidance being used to ban speakers

The government has bowed to pressure from campaigners to publish guidance being used to bar speakers from civil service events

3 mins

Women 'abandoned' to low wages by Tories, say Labour

The Conservatives have “abandoned the equal pay generation” of women in their fifties born around the passing of the Equal Pay Act, Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds claimed yesterday

2 mins

Officers to stop attending urgent mental health calls

Met chief says medical staff should handle such emergencies

2 mins

Anger at BBC after Chinese tech lit up coronation show

A row has erupted over Chinese-made wristbands given out at the concert at Windsor Castle celebrating the King’s coronation

3 mins

Our relationship with China is important and necessary

As Prince of Wales, Charles was famous for observing many years ago that the aged men of the Chinese Politburo, with their identical dark suits and dyed hair, looked like “ghastly old waxworks”

3 mins

Women in poverty risking health by reusing tampons

Period products left in longer than advised, survey finds

2 mins

Willoughby has questions to answer as well, says Dorries

Nadine Dorries has called for an investigation into the Phillip Schofield scandal, after the former This Morning presenter admitted to having an affair with a younger colleague

2 mins

King's Welsh Guards pay 'The Best' tribute to Turner

The King has honoured the late Tina Turner through a showstopping performance by the Band of the Welsh Guards

1 min

The seductive sci-fi about AI blinds us to its benefits

A major breakthrough in medicine last week is an important reminder that artificial intelligence can help keep us alive, not just kill us like it does in the films

5 mins

Erdogan retains control after election run-off win

But opposition fear country will continue on authoritarian path as president is re-elected for another five-year term

6 mins

'I never felt such a level of solidarity for the Ukrainian people as I did in Liverpool'

Eurovision singer Otoy’s emotional music about the invasion helps him feel alive’ despite his losses

3 mins

India's opposition boycotts inauguration of parliament

Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s new parliament building yesterday, a modern complex that exemplifies his Hindu nationalist government’s grand plan to give a makeover to national capital Delhi’s architecture in a literal and symbolic shedding of the country’s British colonial era

4 mins

Anti-protest laws are having a chilling effect on freedoms

The right to peaceful protest is fundamental to human freedom, and its history in the United Kingdom is long, strong and honourable

3 mins

Staff strikes mean no one is marking my £40k degree

It hasn’t been a good few weeks for British universities. Or for students. Or for university lecturers. In fact, the whole system is on the brink of falling apart

2 mins

Foxes drop from top flight as fairytale ends in sorrow

One of the most remarkable stories in football now has another twist

3 mins

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