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Two of the UK’s biggest High Street retailers, John Lewis and Boots, have announced 5,300 job cuts. Boots has said 4,000 jobs will go, and 48 Boots Opticians stores will…
Sir Keir Starmer vowed to lead from the top against racial injustice and begin by undergoing a three-hour unconscious bias training course after calling the Black Lives Matter protests a…
News In A Flash. Daily News clips of events going on around the World. Hollywood stars to be exempt from UK’s coronavirus quarantine rules The government has announced that major…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said that many thousands of new members had joined since the lockdown, and he urged the government to involve trade unions’ “army of safety reps…
When figures from the political right do extraordinary stuff like whitewash the legacy of one of Britain’s most notorious antisemitic Nazi-sympathisers, or spread Jewish “puppetmaster” conspiracies, they get a total…
Boris Johnson has authorised a “compensation” payment of almost £250,000 to the outgoing cabinet secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, after he agreed to step down in September. The UK’s top civil servant…
The Chancellor has promised to ‘very quickly’ consider whether workers given coronavirus tests by their employers should be taxed for the ‘benefit’. Rishi Sunak said he will look at whether…
Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several US states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example,…
In 2013 a freedom of information request was submitted regarding the Palace of Westminster car park permits and MPs’ (and peers’) transport arrangements. Another request was submitted in 2015. Members…
What is a Cashless Society ? A Cashless society is an economic concept where financial transactions are executed in an electronic format rather using banknote. In a cashless society, each…