Browsing: policy

Rachel Reeves’s attempts to overhaul Britain’s planning laws have been dealt a blow after a senior lawyer whom she appointed as an adviser decided to leave…

There is a heavy cloud hanging over Labour’s Christmas celebrations.The most recent figures show the economy is going backwards and worse, the slide is prompting recession…

Barely a third of social scientists believe their university would promote them based on the strength of their research impact, a global poll of researchers has…

Keir Starmer is poised to choose a new ambassador to Washington from a shortlist of three as relations with the US are tested over Ukraine and…

My husband, Roy Darke, who has died aged 85, was a town planning lecturer and Labour councillor in Sheffield and later in Oxford. He championed ordinary…

Geopolitics and trade policy are no longer background noise. Tariffs, industrial policy, and currency pressures are reshaping supply chains, balance sheets, and cross-border capital flows, especially…

Foreign countries are flooding social media with AI-manipulated videos to undermine western support for Ukraine, Yvette Cooper will warn on Tuesday.The UK foreign secretary will urge…

Rachael Sirianni is one of the thousands of research scientists whose work has been decimated by the Trump administration’s massive cuts to the National Institutes of…

Gaps in official migration statistics are hampering public debate and policy decisions including on cases relating to human rights laws, according to a leading thinktank.The University…

Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with his team’s immigration crackdown or lose your federal homeland security…