The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has named a Romanian man who was shot dead by police in the English city of Derby last week and has given more details about the incident. Marius Ciolac, who was 35, was only shot by police after a Taser and a stun grenade had failed to subdue…
Romanian Shot Dead by Police in Derby After Taser and Stun Grenade Failed
Liz Truss Performs U-Turn on Corporation Tax and Promises to Lead UK ‘Through the Storm’
Prime Minister Liz Truss has scrapped a key part of the mini-budget Kwasi Kwarteng produced last month—reversing the cut to corporation tax—and has defended her decision to replace him as Chancellor of the Exchequer with Jeremy Hunt. She said she had decided to keep corporation tax at 25 percent, rather than cut it to 19 percent…
UK Climate Activists Arrested After Throwing Soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
October 14, 2022
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Two UK climate activists have been arrested after throwing tinned soup at one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings in the National Gallery in London. The activists, who are supporters of the Just Stop Oil organisation, threw two tins of Heinz Tomato soup over the 1888 work Sunflowers shortly after 11 a.m. on Friday,…
Royal Mail Plans to Cut up to 6,000 Jobs, Blames Strike Action for Losses
Royal Mail has said it is planning to axe up to 6,000 jobs as a result of heavy financial losses, which the company blamed partly on the ongoing industrial action. The company has been involved in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions with the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which has organised a series of…
Liz Truss Sacks Kwasi Kwarteng Hours After He Arrives From US
Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and is thought to be about to scrap large parts of the mini-budget he produced last month after the City of London reacted badly to the announcement of massive tax cuts. Kwarteng was ordered to fly home overnight from International Monetary Fund…
Thousands Urge UK Government to Rehire Care Workers Sacked Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Tens of thousands of people have urged the UK government to apologise, reinstate, and compensate care workers who were forced out of their jobs by a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to campaign group Together. By Friday, more than 23,000 people had signed a petition published by the group on Monday, calling on Prime Minister Liz Truss and…
British Government Targets Renewable Energy Profits to Bring Down Soaring Bills
Legislation from the government could see excess revenues made by some renewable energy generators capped to reduce the impact of unprecedented wholesale price increases being charged to consumers. The government announced that its proposed Energy Prices Bill that was introduced in parliament on Oct. 12 will have a “cost-plus-revenue limit” on electricity generated from wind and…
Britons Flock to Donate Blood After NHS Issues 1st Amber Alert Over Low Supplies
Tens of thousands of people in the UK have sought to offer blood since Wednesday after the National Health Service (NHS) issued an amber alert over low supplies. The alert was triggered after stock levels were predicted to fall below what would be needed for two days, meaning hospitals would need to delay non-urgent elective…
UK to Send Air Defence Missiles to Ukraine
The UK will for the first time give Ukraine rockets that can shoot down cruise missiles, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday ahead of a NATO meeting in Brussels. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) rockets will help protect Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure as “Russia’s latest indiscriminate strikes on civilian areas in Ukraine warrant further…
‘Frightening’ Decolonisation Movement Taking Hold of British Universities: Report
Seventy percent of UK universities are undertaking some form of decolonisation, according to a new report. The British think tank Civitas, which works on issues related to democracy and social policy, claims that while attacks on free speech seem to be worsening, universities are also seeing the spread of a phenomenon known as “decolonisation.” The…
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