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Autumn Statement: Is the government’s tax giveaway really the biggest since the 1980s?
Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has been busy analysing all the numbers and answers the question: is this really the biggest tax cut since the 1980s?
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Conservative U-Turn on tax cuts explained
Our political editor Gary Gibbon explains why the Chancellor U-turned on tax cuts.
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Autumn Statement explained: tax cut giveaway or ‘stagnating’ UK?
The Chancellor has promised a ten billion pound giveaway ahead of next year’s General Election – along with what he called “the biggest business tax cut in modern history”.
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The struggle for women’s healthcare in the Scottish Highlands
There are inevitable challenges to providing healthcare to the 25,000 or so people living in Caithness in the Scottish Highlands, but imagine having to drive three hours down one of the UK’s most dangerous roads to give birth, or get urgent women’s healthcare.
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Inside the Occupied West Bank with Israeli settlers
Our foreign affairs correspondent Secunder Kermani has been to the West Bank to speak to those, whose presence on land internationally recognised as Palestinian, is a fundamental obstacle to a two state solution.
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Conditions in youth detention in England and Wales ‘frightening’, says Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor
A damning new report on children in custody by HM Inspectorate of Prisons has warned that young offender institutions in England and Wales are becoming more violent than adult prison, with young offenders spending way too much time locked up on their own.
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Government had ‘no good options’ to tackle Covid, Chris Whitty tells inquiry
England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty has been giving evidence at the Covid inquiry, where he was repeatedly asked about whether more could have been done to halt the rapid spread of the virus when the pandemic first began.
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National Living Wage to rise almost 10 per cent to £11.44 per hour
The National Living Wage is going up to £11.44 an hour, and the higher rate will apply to workers aged 21 and 22 for the first time.
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Police criticised for revealing ‘unnecessary’ personal information in search for Nicola Bulley
Police have been criticised for the “avoidable and unnecessary” release of sensitive personal information during the investigation into the disappearance of Nicola Bulley.
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Four bodies found in search for missing teenagers in North Wales
Police searching for four teenagers who went missing during a camping trip in North Wales have found four bodies in a car which crashed off the road in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia.
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Hamas-Israel hostage deal ‘is imminent’ says crisis negotiator and former Israeli government member
We’re joined by Moty Cristal, a crisis negotiator and former member of the Israeli government.
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‘We must have them all back now’, says cousin of Israeli hostage
We’re joined by Rotem Akav in Tel Aviv, whose cousin Omer Wenkert was taken as a hostage.
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Israel and Hamas ‘on verge’ of humanitarian ‘pause’ and hostage deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting his cabinet amid hopes that a deal to release some of the nearly 240 people being held hostage in Gaza could be imminent.
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Sir Horace Ove: BFI to celebrate work of pioneering photographer, filmmaker and activist
Now London’s BFI is celebrating the work of Sir Horace Ové – a pioneering photographer, film-maker and social activist – who brought the lives of Black people in Britain to mainstream television and film.
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OpenAI: Majority of employees threaten to resign unless former chief executive Sam Altman reinstated
Staff at OpenAI – the company behind the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT – have threatened to resign en masse unless former boss Sam Altman is reinstated.