Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the Union must be reformed to avoid the UK becoming a “failed state”. Brown urges Boris Johnson to set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed. Urges to learn from countries like Canada, Australia, Germany, and America, where second parliamentary chambers are more […]
Today I am taking a bit of a different approach to showing the new, instead of lots of text I am going to try and narrow down news into the main points as best I can from articles I have read. I may include some of my own opinions after all as that is what […]
UK Today in Coronavirus It has now been denied by the government that a large expansion of the self-isolation support payment scheme will happen. It comes after a leaked government plan brought about the possibility of anyone having to self-isolate due to the coronavirus getting a one-off £500 payment, seen as a potential way to […]
UK Today in Coronavirus In a huge blow to the music industry the glastonbury music festival has been cancelled for a 2nd year running due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It really comes at little surprise as it was increasingly unlikely that things would not yet be back to normal enough for it to go […]
UK Today in Coronavirus A system currently being used by multiple NHS Trusts to queue people up for the vaccine jab who are in the NHS or Social Care or who are over-70 has been exposed as easily exploitable, allowing those not currently being targeted in the highest priority groups to queue jump ahead due […]
UK Today in Coronavirus Scotland’s lockdown has now been extended until the middle of February, following similar lines of England’s lockdown which is also planned to last at the very least until a similar peroid of time. Scotland’s First Minister said that although the situation has stabilised for the country, ending the lockdown could quickly […]
UK Today in Coronavirus 10 new mass vaccination centers were opened yesterday, coming after 4 million first dose vaccines had been surpassed, with the goal of 15 million of top priority by the middle of February. The new vaccination centers should speed up vaccines even further. Again it was stressed for everyone to continue following […]
UK Today in Coronavirus From today the UK has made the move of closing all travel corridors in a further bid to manage massive pressures on the NHS currently due to the ongoing pandemic and also as a further step of protecting vaccine rollout as well as worries over new variants of the virus that […]
UK Today in Coronavirus As the pandemic continues in the United Kingdom and the pressures on the NHS continue it has led to the inevitable effect of having more people than ever waiting for other treatment and operations, with such numbers waiting at record highs. There were 4.46 million people waiting to start hospital treatment […]
UK Today in Coronavirus Boris Johnson pledged that vaccines will be going 24/7 as soon as can be done in a bid to meet the 2 million a week vaccine innoculations required to meet the 15 million vaccines goal by the middle of February. For now he says the problem lies with vaccine supply rather […]