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A fund set up using British overseas aid cash still holds at least 20 investments in fossil fuel companies, two years after it pledged to stop backing dirty energy. Records …
UK overseas aid still invested in fossil fuels – two years after climate pledge Read More
The UK’s most secretive think tanks have raised more than £14m from mystery donors in the past two years, new analysis by openDemocracy has found. Among them are some of …
UK’s most secretive think tanks took £14.3m from mystery donors Read More
Amid soaring inflation, more families are having to turn to the kindness of strangers to shoulder the cost of dying. When Cerys Defis lost her mom, Tresi Davies, to bowel …
Too poor to die: the rise of crowdfunded funerals Read More
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The price cap on Russian oil exports to be imposed by G7 countries and Australia next month will apply only to seaborne cargoes through the …
G7 Russian oil price cap applies only to seaborne crude Read More
Nurses across the UK are set to strike in the first ever national action over a pay dispute. The strike ballot among more than 300,000 members of the Royal College …
Nurses set to strike in first ever national action – as patients braced for disruption Read More
New data on children in need reveals the scale of criminal and sexual exploitation of children – so why does the Government see modern slavery as an issue for illegal …
Thousands of Children At Risk of Criminal Exploitation as Government Classifies Modern Slavery as an Immigration Issue Read More
The owner of Britain’s biggest power station could receive billions of pounds in green subsidies for a flagship ‘carbon capture’ project even if much of the carbon ends up being …
‘Carbon capture’ subsidy could let power station keep polluting atmosphere Read More
The UK’s economic outlook has been downgraded from “stable” to “negative” by the rating agency Moody’s because of political instability and high inflation. Moody’s said the change in outlook was …
UK economic outlook downgraded to ‘negative’ by rating agency Read More The UK has opened a new licensing round for companies to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea, reports BBC News, which adds that the “decision is at …
UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences Read More
Where is the fairy dust when you need it? Frances Coppola goes looking. Ah, the lovely economic growth fairy. It flutters around the world, resting briefly here, lingering longer there, …
Growth… a tale of make believe Read More