Giorno: 16 Maggio 2023

Zambia’s debt crisis is not easy to solve

Read More Debt woes: President Hakainde Hichilema hopes for a deal. Debt restructuring deals are never easy to negotiate. But in Zambia’s case, the excitement that accompanied President Hakainde Hichilema’s electoral victory in August 2021 came with confidence that the country’s economic woes would soon be behind it. The kwacha surged to become the best-performing […]

Extending coal plants lifespan will not solve anything, says Crispian Olver

Read More The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) objects to extending coal-fired power stations beyond their natural lifespan. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images) The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) objects to extending coal-fired power stations beyond their natural lifespan in its latest report on the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP). Speaking at a media briefing, PCC’s executive director, […]

Concerns over care sector amid UK rise in potential victims of modern slavery

Read More The number of potential victims of modern slavery in the UK more than doubled to record levels last year, with a particularly sharp increase in alleged exploitation in the care sector, figures show. Calls to the UK modern slavery helpline identified 6,516 potential victims last year, an increase of 116% from 2021, according […]

Campaigners welcome Kate Winslet plea about online safety and children

Read More Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speech, as the UK parliament debates legislation to rein in social media platforms. The actor won the television award on Sunday for her portrayal of a mother whose teenage daughter suffers from […]

‘No longer relevant to the UK’: list of 600 EU laws to be scrapped is published

Read More Ministers have published the list of 600 EU laws the government plans to scrap by the end of the year in a much-reduced Brussels “bonfire” that has enraged hardline Brexiters in the Conservative party. In a significant retreat on its retained EU law bill, the government has slashed the number of environmental laws […]

New Zealand hostel fire: at least six dead and 11 missing in Wellington blaze

Read More At least six people are dead and 11 others missing after a “worst nightmare” fire at a 92-room hostel in New Zealand. The Loafers Lodge hostel in Newtown, in Wellington’s south, caught alight just after midnight on Tuesday, prompting an evacuation. The prime minister, Chris Hipkins, who visited the scene on Tuesday morning, […]

Tory MPs accuse Suella Braverman of making bid for party leadership

Read More Despairing Conservative MPs have accused Suella Braverman of undermining Rishi Sunak’s authority and making a bid for the future leadership of the party with a partisan speech railing against experts and elites. The home secretary delivered a highly personal blueprint for a political philosophy to take on the “radical left” in what was […]