Day: June 15, 2023
Intel launches quantum silicon chip that opens door to next-gen computing
June 15, 2023S emiconductor giant Intel has launched a 12-qubit quantum-dot silicon chip in a major move towards one day realising mass production of the first commercial quantum computer. Quantum computers are touted as being incredibly powerful machines that could solve extremely complex computational problems much faster than any computer today. It is believed they will enable […]
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Government has ‘long way to go’ to meet asylum backlog goal
June 15, 2023E fforts to clear the asylum backlog need to significantly increase to meet Rishi Sunak’s target of dealing with older cases by the end of the year, a spending watchdog said. The National Audit Office (NAO) questioned whether the plans were sustainable, saying it would take 2,200 decisions on cases a week to clear the […]
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University staff strike amid wage cut row over marking boycott
June 15, 2023U niversity staff are on strike after a union claimed their employer said wages will be cut by half in response to a boycott. Staff at Edinburgh University taking part in the University and College Union’s (UCU) marking and assessment boycott will have their wages deducted by 50%, though management could deduct 100% of earnings, […]
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Nottingham victims to be honoured by cricketers on day one of men’s Ashes test
June 15, 2023T he three victims of a knife and van rampage in Nottingham will be honoured by cricketers on day one of the men’s Ashes test as police continue to question a suspect. England and Australia will wear black armbands on Friday after thousands of people gathered in Nottingham’s Old Market Square to pay their respects […]
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Johnson partygate hangover leaves Sunak with a headache
June 15, 2023T he fallout from a scathing report which found Boris Johnson lied to MPs over partygate has left Rishi Sunak with a battle to hold his warring Tory party together. The Commons will vote on Monday on the Privileges Committee’s report, which recommended that Mr Johnson should have faced a 90-day suspension had he not […]
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David Cameron dubbed £29million Regent’s Park house ‘too good’ for Tory ‘do-gooders’ to party in
June 15, 2023One millionaire homeowner in London has told a pretty, er, apt story about the former Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, and what he thought of his own party members. While showing estate agent Lee Koffman around his £29million London house, John Griffin, multi-millionaire philanthropist and former owner of Addison Lee luxury taxi company, shared the […]
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My mentor Glenda Jackson taught me to be a rebel with a cause | Tulip Siddiq
June 15, 2023I first met Glenda Jackson in 2003. I was a young, impressionable university student and she had come to speak at our local Labour party meeting. The hot topic of the day was the war in Iraq. Glenda was unashamedly against the war and wasn’t mincing her words about Tony Blair. She was under a […]
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BA grounds flight after mystery ‘weird smell’ makes passengers ‘feel sick’
June 15, 2023A British Airways flight was cancelled because of a bad smell just as passengers settled down for their journey. Emergency staff in New York quickly boarded the BA116 flight from JFK airport to Heathrow to investigate the pong last night. The pungent odour made passengers on the outbound journey from London feel sick, and the […]
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Where to read the Privileges Committee Patygate report on Boris Johnson
June 15, 2023House of Commons Privileges Committee have published their report into whether former Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled parliament over the ‘partygate’ scandal, which saw numerous gatherings at Downing Street during Covid-19 lockdowns. Boris Johnson quit as a member of parliament last Friday after receiving an advance copy of the report. He issued an unprecedented rebuke […]
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The eye-watering cost of ULEZ revealed
June 15, 2023Charges and fines in London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) generated an eye-watering nine-figure sum last year. Data obtained by the BBC found around a third of the £224 million sum came from penalty charge notices, with the rest made up of daily charge payments. The ULEZ is set to expand at the end of […]
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