Andy Burnham should tackle inequality in the UK by introducing a wealth tax, universal free personal social care and bringing gas and electricity networks under public ownership, according to a report from more than a dozen influential thinkers. In the lead-up to the first budget of the chancellor, John Healey, this autumn, the Compass thinktank…
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0 claims checkedDatacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while consuming vast amounts of energy, according to new research. Environmental thinktank Verdant predicts…
Zack Polanski has challenged Andy Burnham’s government to publish an unredacted version of an explosive report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of overseas ecosystems would have…
Arancha González Laya, formerly Spain's foreign affairs minister under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, says the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta was "an attack" on an external border of the European…
The price of oil has risen above $100 a barrel for the first time since July as the escalating conflict in the Middle East threatens further disruption to global supplies. Brent crude, the…
Police still don't know why a man fatally shot by officers Monday night called 911 to falsely report that he murdered two people. Authorities spent much of the night going in and out of a Germantown,…
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Medicine shortages grow in Iran as US tightens sanctions, blockade Many Iranians cannot access or afford life-saving or everyday medicine, but authorities insist pharmaceutical sector will not…
What ‘right’ and ‘left’ mean in Israel today In Israel, the left-right divide is shaped less by economics than by positions on Palestinian statehood, occupation and Jewish sovereignty. For readers…