A small British power plant was reportedly forced offline for four days in July following a cyberattack attributed to hackers linked to the Iranian state. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said the attack affected a small-scale generator…
Millions of households face another winter of fuel poverty as Ofgem prepares to raise its energy price cap to a three-year high. Energy consultancy Cornwall Insight expects the cap to rise by 4 percent from October, following a much sharper…
Royal Mail has once again failed to meet its delivery targets, leaving people waiting for important letters while its management congratulates itself on an “encouraging” improvement. Between March and June, 85 percent of first-class post arrived the next day. That…
The Green Party of England and Wales has proposed a 38 percent windfall tax on the profits of Britain’s biggest banks, with the proceeds used to cut taxes for small and medium-sized businesses. The tax would apply to UK banking…
Household energy bills across Great Britain are expected to reach a three-year high this winter, wiping out Andy Burnham’s much-advertised electricity tax cut before it even takes effect. Cornwall Insight expects Ofgem’s energy price cap to rise by 4 per…
Andy Burnham’s Labour government has overridden Tower Hamlets council and thousands of local objections to force through a power-hungry data centre near Brick Lane, even as London suffers its worst drought in decades. Housing secretary Angela Rayner approved the development…
The company that made Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding paid more compensation to shareholders than to the people who survived the fire and the families of those it killed. Arconic paid shareholders $74 million (£54.7 million) for economic losses suffered after…
Andy Burnham has pledged “100 percent” support for Ukraine as British-made drones strike deeper into Russia, hitting energy facilities and civilian targets while doing little to alter the course of the war. Asked in Wolverhampton about Moscow’s warning that Britain’s…
Britain’s right has spent years telling workers that danger comes from the neighbour with the wrong surname or the worker with the wrong passport. A new King’s College London and YouGov survey shows how deeply that poison has spread, and…
Parents in County Durham are watering down baby formula because they can’t afford to replace it. In one of the world’s richest capitalist countries, families are being forced to gamble with their babies’ health to make a tin of milk…
