The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) rejected two major settlement offers from PPE Medpro, including a complete remake of 25 million sterile gowns or a £23 million payment, Business Matters can exclusively reveal. The offers, both made on a no-fault basis, were tabled first in December 2022, then again shortly before the trial began in June 2025 — ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Claims of a relentless housing crisis are prevalent in policy circles, politics, and the media. But as we have described in several blog posts and a working paper, there are good reasons to be critical of that view. Proponents of this theory often uncritically cite estimates of the housing shortage ranging from one million to ...
Trump unveils 20-point plan to secure peace in Gaza, including granting some Hamas members ‘amnesty’
New York, NY – President Donald Trump released his new 20-point plan to end the Gaza war on Monday, when he also welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. The Trump administration published a 20-point plan on Monday afternoon on how it will end the war in Gaza as the bloodshed continues raging since Oct. 7, 2023. The ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House GOP leaders urged their fellow Republicans to stay united ahead of a likely government shutdown during a lawmaker-only phone call on Monday, Fox News Digital has learned. ‘Realistically, the way [Democrats have] painted themselves into a corner, I don’t think they’ll be willing to yield. There’s going to be some shutdown at least ...
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) has come under fire for potentially prioritizing cultural sensitivity over significant health concerns after it published a report last week questioning a major issue of public debate — should first-cousin marriages be banned? Debate over the issue heightened earlier this year after U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would not ban the ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has signaled that Democrats are not budging on their key demands ahead of a high-stakes meeting with President Donald Trump about government funding. The federal government will enter a partial shutdown at midnight on Wednesday if Republicans and Democrats do not reach a deal on funding priorities for fiscal year (FY) 2026, which ends ...
President Donald Trump is set to attend Tuesday’s unprecedented all-hands meeting of U.S. military commanders in Quantico, Va., he said Sunday. As speculation swirls over why generals and flag officers from around the world were summoned, Trump insisted the purpose was celebratory. ‘It’s really just a very nice meeting talking about how well we’re doing militarily, talking about being in ...
Top Democrats are striking two very different notes on accountability: cheering President Donald Trump’s felony conviction as proof that ‘no one is above the law,’ while blasting the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as pure political payback. In 2019, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said during a discussion at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that ...
Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment endanger the freedom of association under the First Amendment. A new executive order issued by President Trump on September 26 confirms this. The order begins by alleging the existence of “sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, ...
The clock is ticking to fund government, and so far, lawmakers do not have a path forward to avert a partial shutdown. The Senate returned to Washington, D.C., on Monday, and congressional leaders are slated to meet with President Donald Trump to negotiate a deal on funding the government. But the last week has seen both sides point the finger ...