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The government is facing renewed pressure to strengthen online safety laws after rejecting key recommendations designed to curb the viral spread of misinformation, despite agreeing with most of MPs’ findings on the scale of the problem. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee today published the government and Ofcom’s responses to its July report, which concluded that the Online Safety Act (OSA) does not tackle the algorithmic amplification of false content and leaves users exposed to...

Leading employers and workplace wellbeing experts have urged the government not to sideline employee health and productivity reforms, warning that rising unemployment and growing fiscal pressures make action more urgent than ever. At a meeting of the Policy Liaison Group on Workplace Wellbeing on 21 November – chaired by Gethin Nadin and led by renowned psychologist Professor Sir Cary Cooper – participants agreed that the recommendations in Sir Charlie Mayfield’s recent Keep Britain Working review...

Disposable income has fallen for the fourth month in a row, with new data revealing that one in five UK households can no longer afford to cover their weekly essential bills — piling pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves just days before her tax-raising Budget. The latest Asda Income Tracker, compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), shows that low- and middle-income families — who make up 60% of all UK households —...

Nammo UK has been selected to supply the main engine for the European Space Agency’s Argonaut lunar lander, a major element of the NASA-led Artemis programme that will return humans to the Moon in the early 2030s. The announcement was made at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, where senior representatives from ESA, Nammo, Thales Alenia Space, OHB System AG and Thales Alenia Space UK took part in a formal signing ceremony. The Buckinghamshire-based company...

Graduate employment has slipped back to pre-Covid levels as a weakening economy depresses hiring and unwinds the temporary post-pandemic surge in opportunities, according to new research from Prospects at Jisc. The annual What do graduates do? report, published on 25 November, shows a sharp deterioration in outcomes for the 2023 graduating cohort, who entered the labour market during a period of slowing demand and were surveyed in autumn 2024 as conditions worsened further. Just 56.4%...

New research findings reveal that 34% of people living with diabetes do not feel supported in the workplace, highlighting a persistent gap between corporate well-being policies and the lived experience of employees managing the condition. The survey shows that many workers still feel isolated when trying to balance blood glucose monitoring, medication, diet management and the daily demands of their job. Respondents said that open conversations about health and well-being remain rare, and that employers...