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Cost of global energy crisis on households in Great Britain ‘to hit £3,000 by summer’
The cost of the global energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will reach £3,000 for the average British household by the summer, after another expected increase in bills in April.
The average annual bill in Great Britain under the latest energy price cap is forecast to be about …
Prop Will Stuart has become the cornerstone of England’s scrum
Not all heroes wear capes and Will Stuart is not the type you would expect to see in shining armour, but the time has come to recognise England’s unsung tighthead prop. Crisis? What crisis? It was not so long ago that the Rugby Football Union was wringing its hands at …
BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels
BP is expected to ditch a target to ramp up renewable energy generation by 2030 as part of a shift back towards fossil fuels when it presents its strategy to investors this week.
The chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, is poised to tell shareholders that the oil and gas company is …
‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay
‘Not what we signed up for’: inside Trump’s ‘shocking’ Kennedy Center takeover
annual gathering of conservatives
had just got under way near Washington when its organiser, Matt Schlapp, turned to Ric Grenell and quipped: “My daughters want tickets to all the good Kennedy Center shows.”Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence, was recently named by …
Forest fires push up greenhouse gas emissions from war in Ukraine
The burning of Ukraine’s forests at unprecedented rates over the past year has helped push the total greenhouse emissions from the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion to almost 230m tonnes, analysis shows.
, published on the third anniversary of the invasion, found the fighting and its …Flood warnings issued in parts of UK after weekend of rain and wind
Flood warnings are in place across the UK after a weekend of heavy rain and high winds.
As sunshine and scattered showers moved in on Monday, flood warnings were issued across much of Wales, the south and south-west of England and a few in central Scotland.
The Met Office had …
Monday briefing: Merz will be Germany’s chancellor – but extremists are waiting in the wings
Good morning. Germany’s elections always matter far beyond the country’s borders – but yesterday’s vote
could be the most important in a generation
.After decades as the stable linchpin of European liberal democracy, Germany has found itself sucked into the same crises that are erupting all over …
EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report
The EU is spending more money on Russian fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine, a report marking the third anniversary of the invasion has found.
The EU bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the war, according to estimates from the Centre …
‘No more excuses’: Europe under pressure on defence spending three years after Russian invasion
A few days after Vladimir Putin sent Russia’s invading forces into Ukraine in February 2022, the EU’s then foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, asked his staff for an urgent military aid plan. They came up with €50m (£41.4m) to help Ukraine.
“And I said: ‘Are you crazy? We are talking …