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2 months ago | 
moneyweek.com | Daniel Hilton
Average annual water bills will increase by £123 this year in the largest price hike since the water industry was privatised in 1989. The rise, which is the equivalent of around £10 more a month, will take place from 1 April and will vary largely between regions. For example, people in Northumbria will have to deal with a rise of £80 (19%) by the end of 2026. Though still significant, it pales in comparison to the £225 (47%) hike that Southern Water’s customers will experience.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
uktech.news | Daniel Hilton
For decades, trade unions held next to no sway in the UK’s tech sector, as an abundance of high-paying jobs and the freewheeling attitude of industry leaders kept their membership numbers low. But an increasingly rigid labour market coupled with the rise of AI has sparked greater concerns on job security – and union bosses are seizing the moment.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
uktech.news | Daniel Hilton
Amazon could break into the UK broadband business before the end of this year after the tech giant unveiled its new ‘Project Kuiper’ programme which will use satellites in low-earth orbit to deliver high speed, low latency internet to consumers.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
uktech.news | Daniel Hilton
Jobs in artificial intelligence are quickly increasing in the UK in the latest sign that businesses from all corners of the economy are rapidly switching their hiring plans to adapt to the AI boom. The job title of Artificial Intelligence Engineer was the fastest growing in 2024, while the title of AI Engineer is also in the top 10, according to fresh research from LinkedIn, indicating that skills in the sector will become increasingly critical for businesses.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Daniel Hilton
Every road leading into Mezzeh 86 has a checkpoint in front of it. A security cordon has encircled the Alawi-majority neighbourhood of Damascus, as Syria's new authorities try to put a lid on a sudden bout of unrest. On Wednesday night, scores of youths - some armed - gathered in Mezzeh 86's streets, banging on the shutters of shops and demanding rights for the Alawi community.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Daniel Hilton
Madaya has the clean, crisp air you’d expect from a resort town. Mountain ridges peer over the buildings, so everyone can view the landscape wherever they stand. Its beauty is what made it so dangerous. “There were snipers on all the mountains. They shot anything that went outside,” says Musab Abed. “They killed my father in the street in 2015.”Abed, 20, was a child when the Syrian army and Hezbollah laid siege to Madaya between 2015 and 2017.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Daniel Hilton
Fourteen years ago, Yarmouk was one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in Damascus. A refugee camp, yes. But one that had transformed from an informal tented community of Palestinian refugees to a district in the Syrian capital’s south that attracted people from all walks of life. Today it is unrecognisable. Great gaps lie where buildings used to stand. Homes have been disembowelled by barrel bombs. Women, children and dogs sift through piles of garbage looking for something to eat.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Daniel Hilton
Suraqa al-Khatib was 11-years-old when he followed his older brother, Hamza, to the protest. Syria’s revolution was nascent. Daraa, a rural city near the southern border with Jordan, had become its epicentre. And Bashar al-Assad’s troops were besieging it, trying to crush the uprising before it had barely begun. On 29 April 2011, various members of the Khatib family joined a rally heading towards Daraa from its eastern countryside.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Daniel Hilton
Rebel commander in Qatana, a Syrian town just 8km from Israeli troops, says 'we refuse to let anyone enter Syria' Israeli soldiers operate in a location given as southern Syria, in a screengrab from a video obtained by Reuters on 9 December 2024 (Israel Defense Forces/Reuters) 14 December 2024 17:59 GMT ago Qatana has seen Israeli-Syrian conflicts come and go.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Daniel Hilton
A week after Bashar al-Assad’s government was overthrown, one of Syria’s top human rights workers has a sobering message: 100,000 missing people are almost certainly dead. Fadel Abdulghany, director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), has been working for years with a team of 21 people within Syria to record everyone who was detained or simply vanished without a trace.
