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Remember Forest Gump? He seemed to be everywhere when anything of significance in history was happening. The same might be said of Sidney Reilly, the eponymous character in the British TV limited series,

David Smith in The Sunday Times makes a neat point about Chancellor John Healey's first Budget. The fiscal rules he inherited from Rachel Reeves have got even tighter thanks to rising borrowing costs,

The Week's business pages recently asked whether Britain can stop the rot, as yet another batch of UK companies gets snapped up by overseas buyers. The emotional hook is Colman's mustard, a quintessentially

Peter Apps's latest argument, summarised in The Week, is that the government needs to rein in the spread of houses in multiple occupation. The gist is that investment firms are hoovering up cheap houses

From energy customers to energy owners Great British Energy has opened the first £30 million wave of its community energy programme. Community groups and local authorities can seek support to develop and

The Economist has been having a moan about August. --Offices half-empty, parks full, out-of-office emails piling up, and nobody quite admitting they're not really working.-- Unlike France, which openly

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The Week's briefing on young people who are not in education, employment or training (Neets) makes for gloomy reading. Around a million 16 to 24-year-olds, one in eight of the age group, are Neet, and

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Robert Colvile has written one of those columns in the Sunday Times that's designed to make people who care about their town centres slightly cross. His argument is that the high street of old is doomed,

Daniel Hannan has been getting himself worked up in the Sunday Telegraph about the prospect of Andy Burnham's government bringing in a wealth tax. His argument, roughly, is that no country has ever made

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The FT's Lex column argues that Shein should be understood as a social media company rather than a retailer — a gamified engine that keeps you scrolling and occasionally sells you a jacket, closer in spirit

Bringing buses under public control is a governance reform. What ails the bus network is a revenue problem. The two are related, but they are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how you end

Shrinkflation And The Economy SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT MACDONALDS COFFEE Oddly enough, even though I live in the UK, I pay closer attention to American politics and economy than that of where I live.

Schlechte Nachrichten für UK. Wales, Schottland und Nordirland haben einen Pakt unterzeichnet, indem sie die Zusammenarbeit stärken und in die EU streben wollen, und jetzt haltet euch fest, der Pakt wurde

So one of tonight's stories involved a puppet book and my thoughts strayed back idley to Rod Hull... I in fact found myself on the phone asking questions about Rod Hull... There as a certain question I

So I've reached the final week of my base phase, and into my build phase, so my running has changed a little - I've convinced Claude to let me run the Park Run every week as a tempo run, and one Octopus

Kenan Malik, writing in The Observer, calls Arconic's Grenfell settlements an indictment of our times. He is right, but the phrase is almost too gentle. What the numbers describe is not a moral failure