The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chancellor in my first Spending Review in 2020 was to announce a new ten year School Rebuilding programme for 500 schools. Now, that equates to about 50 schools a year that will be refurbished or rebuilt. And if you look at what weve been doing over the previous decade, thats completely in line with what weve always done. This Secondary School in County Durham was meant to open for the new term tomorrow, but it cant because of dangerous concrete. In both 2020 and 2021, the government promised 50 schools a year would be rebuilt. In 2019, the National Au
ALBAWABA - Despite Hamas's acceptance of the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel has decided to commence its operation in Rafah. Israeli A
BERLIN While backroom profiteers in the shadows count up newly-acquired millions and billions from armament purchases or sales of fracked gas due to the Ukraine war, the rest of us are left opposing both Putin’s criminal war as well as all attempts, on the other side, to prolong, extend and gain.
BERLIN While backroom profiteers in the shadows count up newly-acquired millions and billions from armament purchases or sales of fracked gas due to the Ukraine war, the rest of us are left opposing both Putin’s criminal war as well as all attempts, on the other side, to prolong, extend and gain.
BERLIN - I’ve been toiling on this article for weeks, altering it, agonizing, starting anew. Events are simply too complicated and bitter – in the world and in Germany, too. Most dreadfully in Ukraine. Just knowing that so many people are suffering so terribly is appalling.