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UK’s rising migration figures, how did we get here?
Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. We look at the numbers.
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UK net migration from 2022 revised up from 606,000 to a record 745,000
Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. And it’s not a small revision. It now says net migration – which is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving wasn’t 606,000 in 2022 as it previously estimated, but 745,000 –…
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Astronaut Tim Peake on Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the future of space exploration
Astronaut Tim Peake tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about his journey to becoming an astronaut, his time on the ISS and the crucial role of Elon Musk and SpaceX in future space missions, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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Sam Altman makes dramatic return to OpenAI days after being fired
Just a few days after he was fired by the board of OpenAI – Sam Altman has got his job back as CEO.
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What does Autumn Statement mean for workers and small businesses?
What does the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement mean for workers and people running small businesses?
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Covid Inquiry: Top scientists ‘never told’ about Eat Out to Help Out scheme
Professor Sir Chris Whitty has told the Covid Inquiry he was never told about the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, despite Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak saying the country’s top scientists were consulted.
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Diplomacy ‘only way’ to security for Israelis and Palestinians, says former Palestinian Authority spokesperson
We spoke to the former Palestinian Authority spokesperson Nour Odeh.
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Israel-Hamas war: mass burials in Gaza as pause in fighting set to begin
Israel says it expects the first hostages to be released tomorrow, with a four day pause in the war with Hamas due to begin at 10am.
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UK economy must grow faster or face ‘challenging future’, says Labour
We spoke to the shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds.
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Government ‘cutting taxes to reward work’, says Treasury minister
We spoke to the Treasury minister, Gareth Davies.
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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.