News UK prime minister spent birthday indoors with 30 guests in breach of Covid restrictions prompts new fury; 7pm announcement in Netherlands expected to ease curbs despite high national caseload
PM dismisses need for more measures to limit Covid deaths, suggesting Australians are dying with, not of, the virus
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Scott Morrison brushed off the need for further measures to curtail Australia’s ongoing high rates of Covid-19 transmission and deaths, and suggested many Australians are dying with, not of, Covid. Morrison told repor...
Covid support schemes left ‘open goal’ to fraudsters, says watchdog
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The business department’s handling of Covid support schemes left an “open goal” to fraudsters and embezzlers that has added “billions to taxpayer woes”, parliament’s spending watchdog has found. In its review of the a...
Boris Johnson accepted officials’ advice on £400m Iran debt, ex-minister says
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Boris Johnson appeared to accept advice while foreign secretary that payment of the £400m debt to Iran must not be linked to the release of the British-Iranian dual nationals, according to evidence given to MPs by his...
Élisabeth Borne: France’s new PM faces immediate pressure to act on climate
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The new French prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, has immediately come under pressure from environmentalists on the left who warned “hopes were low” that she would drastically cut France’s carbon emissions or move fast ...
‘I feel your country’s anger’ – why the memorial to Britain’s Covid dead will be set ablaze
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I’m asking David Best about the significance of objects and there’s a stunned silence on the line. “When you ask me that, I’m still thinking about your husband dying in 2018,” he finally replies before pausing again –...
Johnson caused Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe torment and misery. I saw her tell him so
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“Are you sure you want to see him?” I asked Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in March, after we received an invitation to meet the prime minister, Boris Johnson. Anoosheh Ashoori, who was also detained in Iran – in his case ...
Concerns for businesses despite expected rise in Melbourne CBD’s population
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Melbourne’s CBD population – and the number of parking tickets – is set to boom under projections by the city’s council, but the peak property industry group has warned that more needs to be done to get people back in...