Next Thursday and probably Friday and possibly the weekend – will be one of the most important dates in world history. NATO and EU leaders meeting in Brussels will decide – or not to decide – what to do in Ukraine. Ukraine will then decide whether to continue fighting and how. Ditto Vladimir Putin. Australia, Japan and South Korea's foreign and defence policies will be dramatically affected. China may come off its rickety fence. India and the OPEC countries will have to make big decisions under heavy pressure from both sides of the warring coin. International markets - stock markets, ...
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Sarah Olney, our Transport spokesperson, has commented on this: Today's underhanded action by P&O is an attack on workers. It is an absolute outrage. This is simply not an acceptable way to treat employees and the government must step in urgently to help reduce tensions and bring people back to the table. If the current owners cannot manage this company properly then the government needs to consider how a more responsible owner can be brought in. Clearly the Conservatives also need to tighten up rules about how registered ships treat workers to ensure this doesn't happen again. * Mary Reid ...
The news that there will be no restrictions on MPs having second jobs, after all, is a direct breach of a promise made by Boris Johnson, who originally suggested the curbs amid a sleaze scandal which provoked widespread Tory rebellion. The Guardian reports that at least 20 Conservative MPs lobbied a committee investigating new rules on second jobs and their behaviour in the Commons chamber, with many saying they strongly disagreed with time limits on outside work: The pledge to put tighter restrictions on second jobs came amid a public outcry over lobbying breaches by the former MP Owen Paterson, ...
I have recently received complaints from residents about the deteriorating state of parts of the road surface of Saggar Street. I have therefore raised this with the City Council seeking repairs to the road.
