Nosheen Iqbal

Mar 11, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal

Last week two men were acquitted by a London court of making illegal payments to Saudi officials. The verdict was the culmination of a case that has been more than a decade in the making and was brought by the Serious Fraud Office. The case revolved around the dealings of a company few have heard of: GPT Special Project Management.It specialised in providing military-grade communications equipment and it had only one client: Britain’s Ministry of Defence.

Mar 6, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal

On Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt presented his budget to parliament. It included a 2p cut to national insurance, more money for the NHS to update its IT systems and the abolition of non-dom tax status. This budget is expected to be the last chance the government has to make a difference to voters’ finances before the general election, and the political strategy was clear. Hunt used the moment to paint Labour as the party that could not be trusted with the economy.

Feb 29, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Tony Naylor |Nosheen Iqbal

“The problem we have right now in restaurants is that with the increased rents, the increased rates, the increased heating bills, fuel bills, the money ends up going into the price of the food,” the Guardian’s restaurants critic and Comfort Eating podcast host Grace Dent tells Nosheen Iqbal.

Feb 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal

Lee Anderson is no stranger to controversy. While deputy chair of the Conservative party he earned the nickname “30p Lee” after chastising food bank users for not budgeting well enough and claiming that meals could be made for 30 pence each. He’s called for the reinstatement of the death penalty and told the Daily Express that if asylum seekers didn’t like their treatment they could “fuck off back to France”.

Feb 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal

Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Merope Mills; produced by Natalie Ktena and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Phil Maynard Tue 20 Feb 2024 22.00 EST Following a campaign by her family in memory of Martha Mills, the NHS is introducing Martha’s rule giving hospital patients in England access to a rapid review from a separate medical team if they are concerned with the care they are receiving How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know When Martha Mills fell off her bike on a family...