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Eurostar the worst-performing rail service in Europe, campaigners find
Eurostar is the worst-performing rail service on the continent and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn is one of the least reliable, according to a ranking of 27 European operators.
The report from the campaign group Transport and Environment (T&E) scored Europe’s rail operators on factors such as ticket prices, punctuality and willingness …
Reeves to pledge closer EU ties in pivot from post-Brexit ‘division and chaos’
Rachel Reeves plans to end the UK’s “fractious” post-Brexit accord with the EU, a relationship she said had been defined by “division and chaos”, by promising closer ties in the first speech by a UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers since 2020.
Reeves will say she wants to adopt a …
Government seeks Whitehall ‘startup’ culture with tech worker secondments
Tech employees will be seconded to work in Whitehall for year-long stints to help the UK government function “more like a startup” under plans to rewire the state.
Ministers will spend £100m on public sector reform as part of a shake-up of the workings of government to achieve Keir Starmer’s …
Tears of joy and sadness as ‘disappeared’ Syrians emerge from Assad’s prisons
As Syrian rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured city after city on the road to Damascus, forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee the country, they also opened the doors of the regime’s notorious prisons, into which upwards of 100,000 people disappeared during nearly 14 years of …
We need proper policies, Keir Starmer, not more pledges | Letters
How depressing that the Labour party seems so bereft of ideas that all it can do as a new government is to castigate the civil service for its lacklustre performance (
Starmer may view Whitehall reform as essential to his missions, 6 December
). What does Labour expect? Any …Here’s a way to make politics more equal | Brief letters
Further to Michelle Bachelet’s excellent article about women fixing politics (
This mammoth year of elections has shown how badly global politics is neglecting women, 6 December
), I have often thought that, for equality, each constituency should elect two MPs: one male, one female. With that method, the …From doctor to brutal dictator: the rise and fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
On the face of it at least, the Bashar al-Assad of 2002 presented a starkly different figure to the brutal autocrat he would become, presiding over a fragile state founded on torture, imprisonment and industrial murder.
He had been president then for just two years, succeeding his father, Hafez, whose …
Hezbollah’s war with Israel left the Assad regime fatally exposed
It was not a coincidence that the Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began its push for the city of Aleppo on the same day that Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire to end the fighting in Lebanon. The domino effect set in motion by Hamas on 7 October 2023 …
Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner
Newts should not be more protected than people who need homes, Angela Rayner has said ahead of an overhaul of national planning guidelines.
The housing secretary suggested previous governments had got the balance wrong between building more houses and protecting local wildlife.
Speaking on Trevor Phillips on Sunday on Sky …