Annabel Rackham Culture reporter Reporting fromGlastonbury Festival Arcadia/ Shotawaydotcom Sonny Fodera performs at the Arcadia stage After ten years of experimenting, I’ve found there are just two ways to master Glastonbury’s after-dark experience. The first involves picking one night to really go all in – your step count will be absolutely astronomical, but with the...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. At the NATO summit in the Hague, almost all European nations reached an agreement to raise military spending to 5% of each county’s GDP. This comes as President Trump said the U.S. would not...
Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, hosted the 32 leaders in his home country For the Netherlands this was the biggest security operation in its history; for Nato’s 32 member states the Hague summit was historic too. There were unexpected moments of levity in among the momentous...
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor JOHN THYS/AFP The US president (L) has been pushing for Nato allies to “equalise” their defence spending for some time Nato leaders are meeting in The Hague to decide on ramping up defence spending to 5% of their countries’ economic output, following months of pressure from US President Donald Trump....
BBC Nato leaders including President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting to agree a big increase in defence spending, but nearly a third of the alliance’s members have not reached the existing spending target. The new target will be to spend 5% of the size of their economies, measured by GDP, on “core...
Becky Morton Political reporter BBC The public no longer back spending on international aid, Trade Minister Douglas Alexander has suggested. The former international development secretary under Gordon Brown told BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson that even if money was not tight “the argument would have to be made” for investment in foreign...
In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations increased spending on nuclear weapons, according to a report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The annual report, entitled, “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,” reveals that last year, the nine nuclear states increased spending by...
The hours, days, weeks and even months after a Spending Review can feel like peeling away the layers of an onion. First, there is the speech from the chancellor in the Commons: the political rhetoric and the numbers often designed to sound big but which are often incomprehensible. Then there are accompanying documents – in...
Reaction to the chancellor’s Spending Review dominates the headlines on Thursday morning. The Daily Express warns to “brace for tax pain” after Rachel Reeves dedicated an extra £29bn a year to the NHS. Critics say the plans are “fantasy spending”. The NHS and defence are the “big winners” of the chancellor’s Spending Review, says the...
Cameron Weldon & Jack Silver BBC News, South West BBC No transport projects in Devon and Cornwall featured in the chancellor’s speech Steve Keable accused the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves of “playing into her Labour heartland” by prioritising other parts of the country Mid-Devon district councillor Steve Keable said the “political reality” was that Reeves was...
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images All the talk of departmental budgets and fiscal rules may feel somewhat distant from the cost of groceries and the rest of the family finances. The Spending Review is not a Budget in which taxes are changed or a host of new policies announced. But, don’t be...
The Spending Review will reveal the choices the government has made about where to allocate cash over the next three years. And some Whitehall departments are expected to do better than others. Ben Chu from BBC Verify explains. He looks at what we know about where the government might choose to allocate cash. Produced by...
Wednesday’s newspaper front pages largely focus on the chancellor’s Spending Review. Read full article at source...
The words Spending Review may not instantly quicken the heart rate of many, but what we hear from the Chancellor Rachel Reeves will have an impact on what your life is like in the UK in the coming years. It could be one of the defining moments between now and the next general election, as...
Rachel Reeves is preparing to unveil her highly anticipated spending review, setting out how much money the NHS, schools, police and other public services will get over the next few years. The chancellor will emphasise plans to “invest in Britain’s renewal” by spending an extra £113bn on infrastructure, such as energy and transport projects in...