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Big banks still funding tar sands despite net zero goals, campaigners say
The report’s authors likened banks’ commitment to oil sands to “picking up pennies in front of a steamroller” given the high risks and low returns.
Best answers after Marcus Rashford asked social media to explain virtue signalling
"It's front bench MPs insisting we all clap-clap-clap for the NHS workers while simultaneously voting against them having a pay rise."
Special procurement channels allowed ‘VIPs’ to sell PPE to Government at inflated prices
Successful contractors were guided through the process by the Cabinet Office, it has been revealed.
Which European countries are Brits most positive about?
How have 3 per cent of Brits never heard of Ireland?
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘summoned to court and told to pack a bag for prison’
It has been claimed Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held to force the UK to settle on a debt dating back to the 1970s when the then-shah of Iran paid the UK £400 million for 1,500 Chieftain tanks.
Watch what happens to the UK on list of World’s largest exporters after 2016
And the worst could be still to come.
‘We are not going to work’ – Poles join nationwide strike over abortion ruling
The ruling would deny legal abortions to women even in cases where a child is sure to die upon birth.
Dozens discharged into Scottish care homes after positive Covid-19 tests
The report said that in the statistical modelling, hospital discharge is associated with an increased risk of an outbreak.
‘The horror we dreaded’ – No hope of finding more survivors from migrant boat tragedy
Charities said such a tragedy was “the horror we dreaded” and repeated calls for safe and legal routes for asylum seekers.