Colin Fisher / Alamy Stock Photo Home Secretary Priti Patel is proposing new police powers and tougher penalties for protesters, including giving courts the power to ban activists with a “history of disruption” from travelling to particular protests. Patel justifies this by saying that some protest, like the recent obstructionContinue Reading
Luke Pollard MP has been granted new funding from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), who oversees Parliamentary costs, in light of the shooting in Keyham. The new funding will enable Luke to hire a new full time constituency support officer to help support the communities of Keyham and Ford. Since the shootingContinue Reading
Budget 2022, to be unveiled at lunchtime today, is expected to amount to about €4.7 billion. The focus will be on addressing the rising cost of living, as well as housing, childcare and climate action. However, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that there will not be “something for everyone inContinue Reading
A dramatic general election in the Czech Republic seems to have ended the rule of the populist oligarch Andrej Babiš. Babiš’s movement ANO (the Association of Dissatisfied Citizens) has been a part of the coalition government in the Czech Republic since 2013, and Babiš himself has been prime minister sinceContinue Reading
Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track usContinue Reading
RUSSIA stole the formula for the Oxford/ AstraZeneca jab and used it to help create its own vaccine, ministers have been told. Security services say they have proof one of Vladimir Putin’s spies swiped the vital data. Alamy Security services say they have proof one of Putin’s spies swiped theContinue Reading
A woman has been arrested after four people were injured, one of them seriously, in a hit-and-run in Limerick. The woman, aged in her 20s, was arrested in relation to the incident and is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at Henry Street Garda station.Continue Reading
For large parts of the world, good quality drinking water is hard to come by. The first solar-powered beverage factory is helping fix the problemContinue Reading
In 1993, Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev used part of his Nobel peace prize money to help set up the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, buying the publication its first computers. Nearly 30 years later, the paper has another Nobel peace prize in its history. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, wasContinue Reading
Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to the bitter seven-year civil war in Yemen which has killed an estimated quarter of a million people and left millions more homeless. On September 21, officials from Saudi Arabia andContinue Reading
