By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor MPs have expressed disappointment that the Foreign secretary Philip Hammond concluded that Saudi Arabia has not breached humanitarian law in Yemen. The select committee said it appears to show an “anything goes” attitude to how Saudi Arabia conducts itself. The International Development Select Committee rebukes ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There is “credible” evidence of illegal weapon sales at the DSEI arms fair. The House of Commons Committee on Arms Export Control, plan to look into allegations that a judge said had not been “appropriately investigated by the authorities”. This news comes after the acquittal of ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It has emerged that David Cameron will be reported to the Parliamentary Standards commissioner regarding the shares he held in his own late father’s trust, Blairmore. He will face a sleaze inquiry into why he failed to declare his slice of the offshore fund. John ...
The Guardian, along with its international media partners, can certainly be smug about the orchestration of this week's revelations. The Panama Papers look set to be one of the biggest scoops of the century and have already claimed the scalp of one World leader and implicated several others. But the ...
By Oli Ward @oli_ward_1 Obama arrived in Havana on Sunday for the beginning of historic talks with Cuban President Raul Castro. One issue certain to be on the discussion table will be the territorial handover of Guantanamo Bay, the correctional U.S. facility on the South-East of the island. While the U.S ...
By Mathew Shaw The sport of boxing is known as the ‘noble art’ and has long seduced some of modern time’s greatest writers and philosophical thinkers - Ernest Hemingway, TS Eliot and Norman Mailer, to name but a few. The sport’s ethos and pathos seemingly providing the perfect metaphors for ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A report has found that 3,500 vulnerable people are languishing in state ran institutions, almost a thousand more than was previously thought. The Government had vowed to ensure these people received adequate care in the community, but this hasn’t been the case. This shocking news ...
By Harold Stone Thousands of people have been flooded out of their homes in the last few months, as they were in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009 and 2007. Two weeks ago our MPs launched a flooding inquiry, and they invited George Monbiot to explain the situation. This is what happened. ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Inefficiencies in the NHS is costing five billions pounds a year. Patients staying in hospital too long, reliance on agency workers, costly supplies and inefficient use of staff is making a huge strain on the public purse. Two official reports have published these findings. 8,500 “bedblocking” patients ...