LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Labour will call for a vote on Tuesday to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas corporations, claiming it would be humiliating not to do so to help with growing living costs. The government’s refusal to
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The education minister has slammed the suggestion that prestigious universities like Cambridge and Oxford should bend the system to admit more students from public schools. Admissions should be based on merit, according to Nadhim Zahawi, and the
LONDON (Parliament politics Magazine) – Boris Johnson’s “P&O-style” strategy to slashing 91,000 Whitehall jobs could be met by a strike, warns the biggest civil service union, with officials also trying to decrease staff redundancy terms by up to a third. After Johnson
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The value of a popular cryptocurrency has dropped by 99 percent, taking down an as frequently referred to “stablecoin” with it. On Thursday, the Terra Luna token plummeted from a high of $118 (£96) last month to
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Labour leader Keir Starmer says he would do the right thing and quit if the police fines him. The full text of Starmer’s statement in which he offered to quit if he was penalised for breaking the
KYIV (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a speech at Chatham House that the wrecked southern port city of Mariupol is “an example of torture and starvation used as a weapon of war,” and that no international organisations
BEIRUT (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Almost three years into a debilitating economic crisis that has devastated the Lebanese pound, created record inflation, and forced thousands of people to flee the nation, Lebanese expats have begun voting in the country’s parliamentary elections. On
KYIV (Parliament Politics Magazine) – On Thursday, May 5, here are the major events so far. According to Ukrainian sources, Russian forces were struggling for control of the last Ukrainian foothold in the beleaguered city of Mariupol. With a phased oil embargo,
CAIRO (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Egypt plans to put army-owned enterprises on the stock exchange by the end of the year as part of a drive to involve the private sector in managing state-owned assets. Egypt’s plan to privatise state-owned businesses isn’t
PARIS (Parliament Politics Magazine) – On Monday, the French greens and the left-wing party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have mutually decided to run against Emmanuel Macron in the June parliamentary election. When they face the newly elected President of France on June 12