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Liaison committee day. This was Kier Time. He’d dreamed of it for most of his life
An appearance before the liaison committee – the supergroup of select committee chairs – is usually something that strikes fear into any prime minister. Sleepless nights. Panic attacks. Boris Johnson was so phobic that he frequently binned his invitations to show up. Not that it did much good. He was …
‘These water companies have got a damn nerve’: anger in England as 58,000 homes lose supply while bills surge
“It feels awful,” said Samantha Hargreaves as she trundled her bottle-laden trolley past queues of cars waiting for drinking water in an Asda car park. It was the second year in a row that her water supply had been cut off shortly before Christmas, and she was loading up her …
Four teenagers jailed for Bristol mistaken-identity murders
Four teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering two boys in a case of mistaken identity in Bristol.
Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, were attacked with machetes in the Knowle West area of the city on the evening of 27 January.
Their attackers – Riley Tolliver, 18, …
Ofwat opts for expediency. It’s time for water companies to stop bleating | Nils Pratley
Have faith in Labour’s grownup government | Letters
Nigel Farage and other MPs are mistaken over parliamentary privilege | Letter
Contrary to what Nigel Farage and many other MPs and peers appear to believe (
MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew, 15 December
), there is no parliamentary privilege in our constitutional law that allows them to defy court orders or decisions if they think it …Kemi Badenoch is the ideal dinner guest for Sherlock Holmes | Brief letters
Labour minister accused of involvement in embezzling billions in Bangladesh
The Labour minister Tulip Siddiq is facing an investigation in Bangladesh over allegations she and family members embezzled billions as part of a deal for a nuclear power plant in the south Asian country.
Siddiq, who is the government’s Treasury economic secretary tasked with tackling financial corruption, has been accused …
UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.
In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the
on Tuesday that would allow …Most pregnant women and unborn babies who contract bird flu will die, study finds
Caused by influenza A viruses, a severe strain of bird flu known as highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) is spreading …