Tag: broadcasting

THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...

ANTI-PENSION reform protesters in France stormed the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics in a posh north Paris neighbourhood last Tuesday, leading to pitched...

THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...

FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...

THE UNION representing 28,000 Canadian actors and radio artists reports that 28,000 commercial workers have been locked out from commercial acting work for over...

FIFTY GP surgeries in the north of Ireland are threatened with closure, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday. Sixteen surgeries have handed contracts back...

THE Ukrainian military is highly likely to launch an attempt to retake Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut by Ukraine) and has amassed enemy manpower and equipment...

FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...

DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...

‘We support a general strike to defeat this bill, we supported it in the TUC and it’s our policy,’ RMT leader Mick Lynch told...

ONE of the world’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, has called on the Tory government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts...

BRITAIN is set to designate Russia’s private security company Wagner Group as a ‘terrorist organisation’, according to a report in The Times of London...

OVER 5,000 workers and youth demonstrated against the Israeli occupation of Palestine on Saturday, marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, with a march...

THE UNITED Kingdom’s supply of long-range missiles to the Kiev regime will demand an appropriate response from the Russian military, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov...

WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the...

‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...

EARLY results in local council elections in England have seen Labour and the Liberal Democrats gain key councils at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour...

LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...

Film and television writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the United States are to strike on and from May Day in...

NURSES will ‘absolutely not’ pause a 48-hour strike in England on May 1st, said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday – and it...

‘WE WILL absolutely not pause our strike action,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen said yesterday morning on the BBC’s Laura...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...

JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...

JERUSALEM – Early on Friday, the Israeli military’s press service confirmed that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched a rocket strike on the Gaza Strip...

FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...

REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...

ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the United States military for carrying out multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the Arab...

THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...

ARGENTINA’S National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said on Tuesday that inflation in February was 6.6 per cent, while the cumulative year-on-year figure...

NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...

OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...

MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...

BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

SHARES in banks around the world have crashed after a crisis at one US bank triggered fears of a wider crisis and the collapse...

AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...

THE Fire Brigades Union is justly proud to have coordinated the following statement, which was passed as a resolution at its Executive Council last...

A NUMBER of Arab parliament speakers and senior legislators have arrived in Damascus amid attempts by certain countries, above all Iraq, to restore Syria’s...

COINCIDING with a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) this week, ten women who were deceived into relationships with ‘spycops’ have...

BRITISH Gas’ owner Centrica has posted huge profits after oil and gas prices soared last year as the US and the UK stoked up...