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Deloitte LLP (United Kingdom)
Deloitte reverses Covid cuts by expanding office space in London
...Deloitte sharply reduced its office space because of the pandemic and the shift to working from home, closing two of its buildings in central London in 2021 and 2022....
April 2, 2024
Labour Party UK
Labour shadow justice secretary defends UK’s membership of ECHR
...Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary, has defended the UK’s membership of the European Court of Human Rights, describing it as a privilege that has “protected the rights of thousands of British...
April 21, 2024
Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders
Post Office scandal exposes ethical dilemmas of general counsel
...In the coming months, the inquiry will hear testimony from several former general counsel at the Post Office, each of whom will give evidence against the backdrop of a debate about whether the role of an...
April 23, 2024
News updates from February 15: White House discloses Russian ‘anti-satellite capability’, UK GDP contracts by more than expected
Venezuela orders closure of UN human rights office
...Venezuela has ordered the closure of a UN human rights office amid an international outcry over a prominent lawyer’s arrest....
February 15, 2024
Post Office Ltd
Ex-Post Office chair accused of using ‘offensive’ term about job candidate
...Staunton had accused Read of bullying the business’s former human resources director, Jane Davies, the author of the “Speak Up” document....
April 18, 2024
ReviewTheatre
The Human Body, Donmar Warehouse review — postwar Britain and the birth of the NHS on stage
...The Human Body is one of several new plays — including Nye at the National Theatre — reminding us how and why the now beleaguered National Health Service was born....
February 28, 2024
UK immigration
Home secretary sacks UK’s chief inspector of borders
...In a statement, the Home Office said it had “terminated the appointment of David Neal . . . after he breached the terms of appointment and lost the confidence of the home secretary”, adding that his dismissal...
February 20, 2024
National Health Service
Rishi Sunak falls short of pledge to cut NHS waiting lists in England
...Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the data showed Sunak had “failed on the NHS”, with patients with suspected heart attacks or strokes “waiting almost double the safe amount of time”....
April 11, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
US set to impose sanctions on Israeli military unit over alleged human rights abuses
...continue to spurn compulsory military service....
April 21, 2024
John Thornhill
The bitter technological lesson of the Post Office scandal
...One bitter lesson to be drawn from the affair is: listen to the humans on the front line of technology, more than those in the back office. Software fails. Governance matters....
January 11, 2024
The Big Read
The costly, controversial outsourcing of NHS mental health services
...In July, the Office for Budget Responsibility estimated that a rise in health-related economic inactivity was costing the government £16bn more per year since the pandemic, largely due to rising mental health...
January 8, 2024
Jemima Kelly
We need a cure for the curse of digital overabundance
...The problem with these streaming services is that the unlimited amount of choice is paralysing. How are we supposed to work out what to listen to?...
March 24, 2024
NHS England
One in five people in England awaiting NHS care
...The Department of Health and Social Care said: “We have cut overall waiting lists for four months running despite disruptive strikes and record winter pressures on our NHS....
April 3, 2024
Working It
Will AI make us happier?
...Read on for details on a big study of how AI and tech impact workers’ health, and in Office Therapy we deal with a doggy day care dilemma 🐶. Will the robots make us happy?...
March 27, 2024
Office for National Statistics UK
UK statisticians threaten strike action over back-to-office mandate
...The ONS will still allow its staff more flexibility than other government departments, most of whom will require staff to spend 60 per cent of their time in the office from April, up from 40 per cent....
March 14, 2024
Post Office Ltd
Post Office chief executive ‘exonerated’ of misconduct after review
...Jane Davies, who was the Post Office human resources director at the time the concerns about Read’s conduct were raised, confirmed in March that she was the author of the “Speak Up” document....
April 17, 2024
Scottish politics
Michael Matheson quits as Scotland’s health secretary after £11,000 data bill row
...Matheson, who was appointed health secretary after Yousaf won the SNP leadership last year, asked for an official review as he came under pressure to explain the £11,000 costs to the taxpayer....
February 8, 2024
The Weekend Essay
The untold human stories of China’s economic boom
...What was missing most, I felt, from our understanding of China’s transformation — and what is most difficult for foreigners to come by — was a human-level view of how families and individuals are shaped...
April 13, 2024
Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk
Cyber attacks are one of the biggest threats facing healthcare systems
...The strategy of the US Department of Health and Human Services includes minimum standards for hospital cyber security — with bigger fines for non-compliance — and government funding to help the sector improve...
January 16, 2024
Gillian Tett
Snickers wars reveal the enduring perversity of human behaviour
...of the services they acquire....
April 4, 2024
InterviewWes Streeting
NHS should ‘seek to use’ private healthcare capacity, Wes Streeting says
...Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said he wants the NHS to lean on the private health sector in the short term so it can drastically reduce its dependence in the future, as he rejected New Labour...
March 24, 2024
Inside Politics
Rishi Sunak’s prisons problem traces back to Home Office reform
...What has probably been forgotten is that the “he” in question was the head of the prison service, something that is no longer the home secretary’s problem.)...
April 10, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
UN officials call for probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals
...Health officials in Gaza have been burying bodies in or near the compounds of hospitals during the war as they struggle to cope with the number of people being killed and the devastation in the Palestinian...
April 23, 2024
Jennifer Dixon
An election manifesto for the NHS — and a healthy economy
...Not far behind are the shocking lack of dental care and mental health services, particularly for children and young adults....
April 18, 2024
ExplainerUK immigration
What next for Sunak’s plans to fly UK asylum seekers to Rwanda?
...In theory, asylum seekers threatened with removal can still appeal to the European Court of Human Rights....
April 23, 2024

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