The National Health Service (NHS) is trapped in a vicious cycle of winter pressures and strikes, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation said as thousands of nurses walked out on Wednesday over pay. Speaking to the PA News Agency, Taylor said without a “realistic prospect of a solution” to the pay dispute, the…
Sunak Calls for Review of London ULEZ Expansion as Mayor Accused of Steering Consultation Result
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday said London Mayor Sadiq Khan should “properly reconsider” plans to expand the capital’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). It comes after Khan was accused of manipulating the ULEZ consultation result and making “dishonest” statements to the London Assembly. Greater London Authority (GLA) Conservatives on Tuesday published around 200 pages of emails and…
Inquest Hears Plymouth Gunman Killed 5 Victims in 8 Minutes
A gunman who committed Britain’s worst mass shooting for a decade, murdered all five of his victims in eight minutes and then used his penultimate shotgun cartridge to kill himself. Jake Davison, 22, killed his mother Maxine, 51, and then shot dead four others, including a young child, in the port city of Plymouth before…
Record 14,507 People Being Held on Remand in England and Wales During Court Backlog, Say MPs
The number of people being held on remand awaiting trial in England and Wales has risen to 14,507, the highest it has been for 50 years and a jump of 44 percent in 18 months, according to a committee of MPs. The backlog of trials caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and last year’s barristers’ strike…
British Politician Warns That Corporate ESG Policies Are Being Used to Penalise Political Views
Insurgent parties are warning that banks’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies are being used to penalise certain views such as critiquing net zero policies. The leader of the Reform Party Richard Tice told The Epoch Times that his commercial mortgage was refused last year because of his outspokenness on net zero policies, which went…
‘We Have a Crisis of the Soul and of Identity’—Esther Krakue: How Postmodernist Ideology Has Blinded the West
Today, I sit down with Esther Krakue, a Ghanaian-born writer and broadcaster based in the UK, to discuss the cultural ills she sees gripping the developed Western world, from postmodernist ideology to bureaucratic COVID dogma and the breakdown of the family. “We have a crisis of the soul and of identity … Many Western countries…
PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: ‘We Have a Crisis of the Soul and of Identity’—Esther Krakue: How Postmodernist Ideology Has Blinded the West
Today, I sit down with Esther Krakue, a Ghanaian-born writer and broadcaster based in the UK, to discuss the cultural ills she sees gripping the developed Western world, from postmodernist ideology to bureaucratic COVID dogma and the breakdown of the family. “We have a crisis of the soul and of identity … Many Western countries…
Social Media Bosses Who Ignore Rules Aimed at Protecting Children Face Jail Under the Online Safety Bill
The British Culture Secretary has confirmed plans under new online safety laws that will make tech executives and managers criminally liable for children’s duty of care failures. Last week, Conservative MPs backed an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would introduce powers to jail tech bosses. Former cabinet ministers, including ex-home secretary Priti Patel…
UK Government to Include Transgender People in Conversion Therapy Ban
The government is set to publish draft legislation setting out how it will ban conversion therapy for gay and also transgender people. On Tuesday the government said that it will “shortly” publish a draft bill detailing its proposed approach to ban conversion practices on the basis of sexuality and gender identity in England and Wales….
Britishvolt, Key to UK’s Electric Car Ambitions, Falls Into Administration
January 17, 2023
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Britishvolt, an electric car battery company once praised by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has fallen into administration and made the majority of its 300 staff redundant. The company had been promising to build a £3.8 billion gigafactory producing batteries for electric cars in Blyth, Northumberland. But the project ran into serious difficulties months ago…
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