A damning new report has criticised politicians’ efforts to improve social mobility. Here are ten key graphs that paint a picture of the problem.
James Waterworth, from the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and Shivaun Raff, founder and CEO of Foundem, discuss the fine levied on Google.
For three months, Venezuela has been rocked by violent unrest. At first protesters took to the streets against the Government and its increasingly unpopular President Nicolas Maduro. Anger has grown and the demonstrations have become a national movement against Venezuela’a crippling long-term social problems. basic services. There are food shortages and hospitals are struggling to…
Fiona Hyslop, the SNP Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs,responds to Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement on a second independence referendum.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she is no longer demanding a second independence referendum in the next two years, before a Brexit deal is agreed. She told the Scottish Parliament that she has changed her mind as the political situation is too unclear and some voters want a break from taking big decisions .…
The White House has issued a very public threat to the Assad regime in Syria. The Trump administration says Syria’s Government appears to be preparing chemical weapons for an attack and warned it would pay a “heavy price” if one takes place. A warning: this report contains disturbing images.
Some 386 households have been uprooted since the Grenfell Tower fire from its neighbourhood and are now living in emergency accommodation, most of them in hotels. Amanda Fernandez and Jamal Williams, who lived just beneath the tower on the Lancaster West estate but now find themselves in temporary accommodation, discuss how they are coping. …
The funerals have taken place of three victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. All three were members of the same family. The Prime Minister meanwhile has called for an urgent review of safety in tower blocks across the country as high-rises with cladding continue to fail fire safety checks.
If you want find a bargain online you might think you should Google it. But if you do that you might not be getting what you bargained for. The European Commission has just slapped a massive £2.1 billion fine on Google for putting its own price comparison adverts at the very top of its search…
Conor Kenny, from Doctors Without Borders, who was the only doctor on a rescue ship that saved over 4,000 migrants this year, and Elham Saudi, director of Lawyers for Justice in Libya, discuss the rise in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from north Africa to Europe.
In recent days, calming seas in the Mediterranean have seen a huge rise in the number of people attempting the perilous crossing from north Africa to Europe. Aid agencies have rescued thousands of the migrants and refugees who have been crammed on to often barely seaworthy boats run by smugglers and criminal gangs. For the…
Eight thousand migrants in 48 hours and counting: the Mediterranean human crisis crescendos again.
Gary Gibbon
Yesterday No 10 accidentally mis-briefed that the DUP deal was contingent on Stormont power-sharing getting up and running. It set a lot of hares running, briefly, before the correction was rung through. It was a particularly lively moment because DUP insiders believe that the Northern Ireland office had, at the end of last week, been…
Theresa May has been accused of bribing the DUP with a ‘magic money tree’, in a £1bn deal designed to keep the Tories in government. FactCheck took a look at the details.
Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis says EU nationals given “settled status” after Brexit will have the same rights as British citizens.
