London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Strategies to broaden access to a new type of pension scheme permitting savings to be pooled have been set out by the UK Government. Collective defined contribution (CDC) pension schemes have the prospect of delivering trustworthy returns
THIS year marks the 200th anniversary of the RSPCA: the oldest animal welfare charity in the world. Two hundred years ago, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals met in a London coffee shop at a time when the issue
With only around two hundred chalk streams worldwide, they are a precious feature of our natural environment, and I’m highly privileged to have four within my constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted. Being waterways uniquely containing mainly spring water, chalk streams hugely enrich
The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan has confirmed that an attack on a convoy near Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport left at least two Chinese nationals dead and one injured. The assault, occurring around 11 pm on Sunday, targeted personnel from the Port Qasim
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – NHS maternity attendants will take part in a mandatory training programme to enhance patient safety after a damning report by the health regulator stated that poor care and damage in childbirth was in danger of becoming “normalised”.
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Two functioning Metropolitan Police officers and an ex-colleague have been charged with attacking a suspect they confined after a high-speed police car chase in northwest London. PCs Matt Looker, Mark O’Shaughnessy and Jack Marks are charged with
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – UK house prices increase for the third month in a row to a near-record high. UK house prices rose for the third month in a row in September to nearly £200 short of a record high as
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – PM Sir Keir Starmer has expressed the “sparks” from the confrontation in the Middle East “light touch papers in our neighbourhoods here at home” as he called out ”vile hatred” that has been witnessed against Jews and
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – Man apprehended over acid attack on schoolgirl in west London bailed. A 35-year-old man apprehended on suspicion of driving grievous bodily harm after a supposed acid attack outside a West London school has been released on bail.
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius ‘completely the wrong thing’, says ex-PM Boris Johnson. Surrendering the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was “completely the wrong thing to do”, ex-prime minister Boris Johnson has warned. His ex-colleague, shadow foreign secretary
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Roughly 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters have started marching through central London, with a “significant” policing operation in place across London as circumstances observe the anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel. Activists assembled in Bedford Square ahead
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A West London doctor who touched a woman’s breasts in a hospital store closet and then advised her “Please don’t tell anyone” has been expelled. Senthil Panneerselvam, an ex-specialist registrar at the leading Harefield NHS Hospital in
