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‘It’s unfeasible to run this model much longer’: is this the end of the Australian regional tour?

Musicians are reporting low ticket sales for gigs that end up costing them money to play – before 11th-hour turnarounds that bring out huge crowds. But is such a risky ecosystem something bands want to deal with?

The Guardian - AU · Jun 14, 2025

Migrant hotels will be used for four more years despite pledge to close them down, Home Office admits

Home Office aiming for zero asylum hotels by ‘end of this parliament’ as work continues to clear claims backlog

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2025

Whereabouts of more than 17,000 asylum seekers unknown to Home Office, MPs told

Permanent secretary Sir Matthew Rycroft and his interim second-in-command Simon Ridley were giving evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Committee.

The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2023

Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid to show ‘it didn’t pose a threat’

The then-prime minister later said he would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’ than impose a second lockdown, a top aide told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023

Johnson spoke of ‘whisky and revolver’ at Covid meeting in October 2020

The former prime minister spoke about ‘medieval measures’ to tackle the pandemic, the Covid-19 Inquiry has heard.

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023

Rishi Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out ‘blindsided’ top officials, Covid inquiry told

Former head of the Cabinet Office Covid-19 taskforce Simon Ridley became the latest top official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe this week

Evening Standard · Nov 7, 2023

Eat Out to Help Out ‘blindsided’ top officials, Covid inquiry is told

Former head of the Cabinet Office Covid-19 taskforce Simon Ridley became the latest top official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe this week.

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023

Health officials was ‘not concerned’ about Covid patients in care homes months into pandemic, inquiry hears

Simon Ridley also claimed he was “blindsided” by Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023

Sunak and Johnson pushed repeatedly against autumn lockdown, inquiry told

Covid investigation also told taskforce coordinating pandemic policy had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2023

‘Profusion of officialdom’ in early days of pandemic, inquiry hears

Simon Ridley became the latest senior official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe.

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023