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Coupled with the Chancellor’s announcement of new investment in HMRC compliance activity which will see a further 670 compliance officers recruited by 2029-30, on top of the 5,500 previously announced, it paints a very…
This time, rather than focusing solely on trend-led affordable designs, the names familiar to any shopper are courting luxury fashion, A-list collaborations and enhanced services in an attempt to engage consumers. Think…
The chancellor failed to announce reforms that might tackle some of Britain's chronic problems, they say. Healey's scatter-gun budget, as the Resolution Foundation called it, was more about politics than economics, and…
According to unpublished accounts seen by the Financial Times , Oxfam's retail profit fell 23% to £4.9m in the last financial year, compared with £6.4m in the previous year. The British Heart Foundation (BHF), which has…
The idea in the broad sense is very simple. Any spending deemed to be "preventative" – that is, the initial outlay will be more than made up for by future savings – will from now on be ringfenced, meaning it cannot be…
The Trump administration has given support to almost half of the nation's coal plants, helping them to continue operating despite economic and regulatory headwinds, according to a new analysis by the Environmental…
Work will close London's Paddington station – affecting intercity trains to the west of England and Wales until January – as well as Birmingham New Street, the UK's busiest station outside the capital, for five days over…
At the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles , Musk could order more than 31.9m cheeseburgers with the money he has spent on the midterms. Musk, the world's richest person, has funnelled at least $445.77m into Republican-aligned…
He was positively shocked when, instead of giving him a fine, officers took him into a gazebo to watch a bike safety film. Aman was one of 30 cyclists caught in the first 20 minutes that morning, as part of a new scheme…
Rising real yields have punished assets with a long duration whose value lies years away, and nuclear has been dragged down with the AI power trade it is now lumped in with. The price of financing the AI build-out tells…