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Calculations by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents unions with more than 5.3 million members across England and Wales, shows that the public purse is billions of pounds worse off as a result of tax cuts…
to continue facilitating the approval of export licenses for rare earths and permanent magnets destined for the EU." While they acknowledged "differences" between them, the two sides were committed to maintaining trade…
Many of the days at next year’s Ashes are already sold out, tickets to Ally Pally’s World Darts Championships are like gold dust and yet, here we all are, desperate for a day out. As the festive season approaches…
The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its usage policy to let its tools end interactions where people are "cruel" - something it said it had done in "rare" cases prior. It will now be included on a list of…
You’d be forgiven for thinking US president Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025 would have spelled the end of the sector. ‘Drill, baby, drill’ was a cornerstone of Trump ’s re-election campaign, and…
"When the Trump administration says things, it's not always data-driven. And we wanted to see what the data shows, and what other people have found the data shows," said Michael Ettlinger, one of the report's authors.…
A baker and his wife plunge into Tom Scutt’s endless-feeling set, which is in effect a handful of trees and some carefully placed reeds but feels immensely lush and escapist, in order to break the spell that forbids them…
A gang of at least seven masked individuals broke into the cellar of Marchesi Antinori, a family-owned winery dating back to the late 1300s, in Cortona after shutting off the alarms and surveillance cameras before using…
The company, whose global parent group listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange valued at just over $26bn (£19.6bn) last month, increased sales at its UK division by 26% to £2.58bn, according to accounts filed at Companies…
By increasing taxes such as Capital Gains Tax (CGT) or dividend tax in the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor John Healey could be sacrificing long-term, high-value tax contributions for a short-term fiscal gain. The top 10…