WATSON SAYS NGN TARGETED HIM BY CEO BROOKS
Rebekah Brooks, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s UK company News Group Newspapers (NGN), has been accused of taking a “deeply concerning interest” in Tom Watson, a phone-hacking campaigner. In a court document, Brooks allegedly told Will Lewis, the then general manager of NGN, that the company would “go for broke Continue Reading
REFORM GAINS IN LOCAL AND MAYOR ELECTIONS
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has won the by-election for Runcorn and Helsby by a margin of only six votes, resulting in one of the safest Labour seats in the country being taken now by Reform. This victory came on the same night as the Conservatives were defeated in the elections Continue Reading
SARA SHARIF: COULD MORE HAVE BEEN DONE?
The details of what happened to Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old killed in 2023 in Surrey, are horrifying. You will, no doubt, remember the case: her father and stepmother fled to Pakistan, and there was an international manhunt to bring them back to this country to stand trial. The question that, Continue Reading
UNITE SAYS STRIKE IS OVER “FIRE AND REHIRE”
Acas, a conciliation service, has hosted a meeting between Birmingham City Council and Unite, a union boss, to discuss the regrading of workers at the heart of the Birmingham bin strike. The focus of the row is now on plans to downgrade the role of drivers, which the union says Continue Reading
