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Monday 28 November 2022

Rishi Sunak signals end of ‘golden era’ of relations between Britain and China

PM’s first major foreign policy speech warns of the creeping authoritarianism of Xi Jinping’s regime
Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content

Revised online safety bill proposes fines of 10% of revenue but drops harmful communications offence

UK asylum seekers with diphtheria symptoms to be held in ‘isolation hotels’

Facilities similar to those used during Covid pandemic will house people showing signs of contagious disease
Sunak has created a cabinet in his own image – one of weakness and invisibility

With the PM caving in on new homes, and Suella Braverman bunking off again, ministers showing leadership are hard to find

OneLove armband sends ‘very divisive message’, says Qatar official

Head of World Cup organising committee says he sees rainbow armband as protest against Islamic values
Scottish footballers to be banned from heading ball before and after matches

Clubs also advised to limit heading training after research showing link with brain disease
Unifying his fractious party may be Rishi Sunak’s biggest challenge of all

The prime minister is toughening his stance on a range of issues but that won’t be enough for some unruly Tory MPs
Sunak searches for Tory compromise over onshore windfarms U-turn

PM is stuck between two wings of party and at risk of Commons defeat on pro-renewables amendment

Great Barrier Reef should be placed on world heritage ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report says

Experts from Unesco and IUCN find climate change threatens reef’s values and work to improve water quality is too slow
Fighting in east Ukraine descends into trench warfare as Russia seeks breakthrough

The town has been abandoned by most of its 70,000 residents as relentless shelling reduced buildings to rubbleSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage
Iranian artists call for boycott of cultural institutions with links to regime

Art activism has increased in and outside the country since death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
‘Russia wins by losing’: Timothy Snyder on raising funds for Ukrainian drone defence

Historian says Russia needs to lose its war in order to become a ‘normal’ European country – and stopping destruction of Ukraine’s power grid is essential

UK retailers launch discounting blitz after month of falling sales

Up to 50% discounts as cost of living crisis hits shopping budgets and mild weather leaves winter styles unsold
FCA reveals £49m redress scheme for British Steel pensions

Financial advisers to pay about £45,000 a worker to 1,000 staff who received unsuitable advice
Gender diversity in UK tech industry ‘still terrible’, says Martha Lane Fox

Lastminute.com co-founder, now a peer, says little progress has been made in recent decades
Ofgem is taking a risk with new approach to regulating energy firms

The regulator seems to think it will be able to spot trouble in time to avoid more costs being piled on to consumers

- BT awards tens of thousands of staff £1,500 as strikes end
- How the lights went out on Bulb – and the wrangle over its future

Weather tracker: temperatures plunge to -45C in parts of Russia

Siberian cold front forecast to push into China, Mongolia and then UK by Wednesday