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The UK’s craft chocolate scene is proof that quality is synonymous with high ethical standardsContinue Reading

Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock In November, Emad al Swealmeen triggered a bomb outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital. When it became known that Al Swealmeen was an asylum seeker who had converted to Christianity, it was reported that the Home Office had accused churches of converting asylum seekers to Christianity in orderContinue Reading

Even before the pandemic, there were over 124,000 care-worker vacancies in the UK. Art_Photo | Shutterstock The UK government has published details of how it plans to reform adult social care in England. On December 1, in the House of Commons, Care Minister Gillian Keegan introduced an “ambitious 10-year vision”,Continue Reading

Instead of a more formal mode of communication, UK prime minister Boris Johnson recently decided to tweet a letter he had written to French president Emmanuel Macron issuing a series of demands on managing cross-Channel migration. Macron was duly enraged. He accused Johnson of not being serious and disinvited theContinue Reading

Updated at 11:50 am Further Covid-19 restrictions for the Christmas period are expected to be discussed by the Government on Friday. The Cabinet meeting at 3pm will follow a meeting of the Covid-19 sub-committee on Friday morning. As reported in The Irish Times, reduced capacity in pubs and indoor hospitality,Continue Reading

In the same week that saw at least 27 people die in the Channel trying to cross in a small boat, the UK government released its quarterly immigration statistics bulletin. Political pressure has piled up on the UK government – and on Home Secretary Priti Patel in particular – toContinue Reading

Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) the publisher of the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, has lost an appeal in its three-year legal battle against Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of extracts from a letter written by the duchess to her father,Continue Reading

Dilok Klaisataporn/Shutterstock The tense triangular relationship between the US, China and Taiwan has emerged once again amid escalating military tensions across the Taiwan Strait. The status of the small, densely populated island off the southeast coast of the Chinese mainland is hotly contested and there are almost daily news reportsContinue Reading