According to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, of the £12bn spent on PPE in 2020-21, £9 billion was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment. Has the Government learned the lessons?
Following the summer's debanking scandal the FCA launched an urgent inquiry. Yet disgracefully it has found no evidence of wrongdoing in what amounts to a blatant cover-up.
A keen surfer, Dr. Mark Shaw says his experience with surfboards taught him to anticipate the problems with crumbling concrete. So why were the defects not clear at the time and who will be held accountable?
The payments that the U.K. Government handed over to domestic violence agencies during Covid lockdowns are among the most egregious rip-offs of that period.
The Covid Inquiry hopes to rebrand lockdown as a noble cause, led astray by guilty men. In this way it seeks to revive the moral case for restrictions, and, still more, the moral case for the civil service.
Former PM Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the 'partygate' lockdown gatherings.
New Zealand’s Government has awarded 'damehood' to its former PM Jacinda Ardern for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic” – despite deaths currently running 25% above average.
As another journalist receives $100,000 from a bank as a reward for pushing alarmist climate narratives, Chris Morrison wonders when evidence is going to triumph over hysteria.
Some sceptics have expressed doubts over the veracity of the blabbermouth Pfizer exec story, arguing it's staged. But that makes no sense and doesn't fit the evidence, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
The BBC is boycotting mayoral briefings in Bristol after the council banned a reporter for asking a Labour politician why he flew across the Atlantic to give a 14-minute speech on climate change.
