In 2016, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan first expressed the intention to pedestrianize Oxford Street, located in the City of Westminster in central London. The original plan was to complete the project in 2020, but after two public consultations, the project was…
The chancellor is understood to be considering private finance initiatives used by Gordon Brown to bring defence spending up John Healey is understood to have revived a plan to boost defence spending by using off-the-books loans to get it up…
Minister Justin Madders has issued a new update that affects many UK drivers(Image: Parliament TV) The DVLA has released an update on driving licence applications linked to medical conditions - and it makes for uncomfortable reading. Drivers are obliged to…
British Royal Family: King Charles is currently on the second leg of his Caribbean tour. And while attending a state dinner in Georgetown, the monarch received a cheeky gift from Guyanese President Irfaan Ali. King Charles’ amusing reaction showed a…
Dear Sir, I saw a headline which announced that Britain would not pay reparations after enslavement. The thought came to me that after all those years of grotesque injustice toward others, there would... I saw a headline which announced that…
Arthur Reynolds is a journalist, a former civil servant and government speechwriter. I’ve recently returned from a week in quite possibly the bleakest city known to man: Brussels. Dark, wet and cold, the place is a soulless mass of grey…
Poorna Bell is an award-winning journalist and author who writes across mental well-being, women and diversity as well as shining a light on under-served communities. Her fourth book, She Wanted More, is out now. Poorna is a columnist for The…
A PROMINENT climate justice and Palestine rights activist has been barred from entering the UK by the Home Office. Andreas Malm was told this week that his Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) had been cancelled on the grounds that his “presence…
DUBLIN, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Ireland will set up a government body that would for the first time undertake research and preparations for the possibility of future unity with British-run Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Micheal Martin was quoted as saying on Friday.
Sadiq Khan's vision of Oxford Street as a peaceful, pedestrian utopia has inelegantly fallen flat on its face just days into the scheme. Traffic and buses would have no problem breezing through surrounding roads after being blocked from the thoroughfare,…
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