Giorno: 3 Febbraio 2023

Griff Rhys Jones rails against plans to ‘smother’ Liverpool Street station

Read More Griff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (350ft) of new offices, shops and a hotel. The comedian, writer and broadcaster has been appointed president of the revived Liverpool Street Station Campaign (Lissca), a post held in the […]

Home Office shelves plans to house asylum seekers in Southport Pontins

Read More Asylum seekers will not be housed in a Pontins holiday park in north-west England, according to reports. The facility outside Southport, Merseyside, was reportedly being looked at by the Home Office as an alternative to hotels in which to house asylum seekers waiting for their claims to be assessed. The BBC reported that […]

Thailand Residents Urged to Stay Indoors as Air Pollution Reaches Severe Levels

Read More Residents across Thailand have been urged to stay indoors and wear face masks when leaving their houses as the country experiences dangerously high levels of air pollution. Thai government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said Wednesday that Thailand’s prime minister had advised companies to allow workers to work from home to reduce air pollution from […]

Tory bankbenchers plan to put pressure on Hunt to cut childcare costs

Read More A handful of influential Tory backbenchers have created an informal pressure group to push the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to cut the costs of childcare at next month’s budget, as experts say the sector is in crisis. The MPs, led by Siobhan Baillie, have been meeting regularly in recent weeks to discuss a range […]

Alf Dubs decries Suella Braverman’s likening of refugees to invaders

Read More Alf Dubs, the veteran Labour peer who arrived in the UK as a child fleeing the Nazis, has described Suella Braveman’s likening of refugees to invaders as “deeply and personally upsetting”, and a low point of his half century in politics. Dubs, who fled what was then Czechoslovakia unaccompanied in 1939 and came […]

Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy pushes for 10th sanctions package from EU leaders meeting in Kyiv

Read More For this Friday’s must-read: Guardian correspondents have looked into how Putin’s plans to blackmail Europe over gas supply failed: The worst-case scenarios piled up over the summer months. Germany’s economic minister warned of “catastrophic” industrial shutdowns, fraying supply chains and mass unemployment. France’s president urged citizens to turn down the heating. Spain asked […]

Caso Cospito, Meloni fa scudo a Delmastro. Nordio: nessun segreto violato

Read More ROMA – Salvare i soldati Delmastro e Donzelli. La missione di Giorgia Meloni prosegue in una giornata di bufera politica, a dispetto del mite clima romano. Le opposizioni sparano a zero e chiedono le dimissioni del sottosegretario alla Giustizia e del vicepresidente del Copasir. Poi trapela la notizia che il Dap, il dipartimento […]

What makes a war crime, when war itself is monstrous?

Read More ‘Fighting for peace is like f****ng for virginity.” These words on the T-shirt of a peace protester in Israel/Palestine contain some truth.  War brutally and barbarically disregards human dignity. After millennia of slaughtering, humankind should have developed beyond warfare. It has not.  Universally the law recognises the right to self-defence, though. I may […]

EU leaders to dampen Ukraine’s hopes of fast-track EU membership

Read More EU leaders will seek to cool Ukraine’s expectations of a fast track to membership at a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday, as the bloc spars over how much encouragement to give its war-torn neighbour. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of the European Council, Charles […]