London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The UK is being insisted by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with plans to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite persistent tensions over the issue. The Council
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – The Bank of England has maintained interest rates intact at 5% as it put its steps to ease the strain on household budgets on hold. The Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted by a bulk of eight
‘Non Crime Hate Incidents’ [NCHI] were created following the Macpherson Report of 1999. This concluded that the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 had been compromised by systemic police racism. The rationale behind NCHIs was to focus on the
The new government has no shortage of challenges to tackle when it comes to housing. Homelessness more than double what it was in 2010; the slow progress of post-Grenfell cladding removal works; years of delays on leasehold reform and renter’s rights; and
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – General practitioners (GPs) have been employing ChatGPT to treat patients, a Harvard study has cautioned. Researchers at the American university discovered one in five family doctors in the United Kingdom had used artificial intelligence means while treating
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Cyclists will be prohibited from riding through the pedestrianized area of Oxford Street under Sadiq Khan’s plans to restrict traffic from the thoroughfare. The mayor Sadiq Khan announced that he had secured Government backing to re-boot seven-year-old
It was the youff that did it in the end. Bangladesh, a nation that’s only existed since 1971 had a founding constitution stressing democracy, secularism and socialism. In recent years it’s been synonymous with authoritarianism and repression. Weeks before the UK’s own
Short-Term Lets are an acute issue in central London, and many other tourist and visitor destinations across the country. The issues are on multiple fronts – 13,000 short-term lets advertised in Westminster alone at a time when there are over 3,000 households
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Sales of some new hybrid cars will be authorised until 2035, the government has stated, but it rejected that this was a change to a manifesto commitment to ban petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Ministers scheme
Manchester (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Mayor Andy Burnham has insisted the government reuse land reserved for HS2 to construct a new train line between Manchester and Birmingham through Cheshire. The suggested new line would build new ways from the end of HS2
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The UK government is preparing to appoint a special envoy for nature for the first time, as the foreign secretary, David Lammy, aims to put the UK at the centre of global measures to tackle the world’s
We face a looming cliff edge for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) at the end of March next year when existing funding runs out. Last week I held an adjournment debate in the House of Commons to highlight the risk this
