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UK’s bumper pay rises show inflation is tricky to shift
Woman with intellectual disability who Optus allegedly signed up to 24 contracts just one of hundreds in lawsuit
An unemployed woman with cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability was signed up to 24 Optus contracts for multiple phones, smart watches and tablets over 15 months, the consumer watchdog has alleged in a lawsuit claiming the telco sold hundreds of vulnerable people phones and plans they could not afford.
…Tuesday briefing: How the UK left 64 asylum seekers stranded on an island in the Indian Ocean
Good morning. In October 2021, a boat carrying dozens of Tamils trying to find their way to Canada sprung a leak. They were rescued by the British navy and brought to Diego Garcia, a tropical island in the middle of the Indian Ocean that was under the control of the …
Syrian HTS leader says rebel factions that overthrew Assad will be ‘disbanded’
Syria’s rebel factions will be “disbanded”, the head of the group that led the ousting of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as he seeks to reassure minorities at home and abroad that the country’s interim leaders will protect all Syrians, as well as state institutions.
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the …
Prince Andrew spy scandal may have further exposed threat posed by China
Prince Andrew should be commended for doing Britain a great service according to longstanding China watcher, Charles Parton. The now marginalised royal has, the analyst observed, “almost single handedly” succeeded “in highlighting the threat to free and open countries” posed by the contemporary Chinese state.
The story of Sino-British has …
Prince Andrew to miss royal family Christmas after links to alleged Chinese spy emerge
The Duke of York is to stay away from the royal family’s traditional Christmas gathering at Sandringham this year amid the controversy surrounding his links to an alleged Chinese spy.
Andrew, 64, will miss the festivities at the private Norfolk estate of his brother, King Charles, where 45 members of …
Labour’s gamble with Royal Mail may go horribly wrong | Nils Pratley
Two general elections ago, Labour was promising to renationalise Royal Mail. Now, in office, it is
happy to see the ancient institution fall to a leveraged takeover bid
from a private equity-style company that will have the power to set the price of a first-class stamp from …European Commission takes UK to court over EU citizens’ rights
The European Commission is taking the British government to court over alleged violations of the rights of EU citizens in the UK, a decision that casts a cloud over Keir Starmer’s attempted post-Brexit reset.
The commission announced on Monday that it was referring the government to the European court of …
Staffing shortages and ministers’ illusions blight the civil service | Letters
The government claims that there are too many civil servants (
Ministers planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs, 11 December
). This sits oddly with your report (11 December
) that unpaid carers are still being pursued for absurdly defined “overpayments” because there are insufficient staff …How did Yang Tengbo become close confidant of Prince Andrew?
How did a junior Chinese civil servant who arrived in Britain to do a master’s degree at York University end up as such a close confidant of the Duke of York that he was described as “the very top of the tree” by the prince’s adviser?
Yang Tengbo, 50, also …