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UK job vacancies fall at fastest rate since pandemic as business confidence slumps
The number of job vacancies in November fell at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic, as business confidence slumped to its lowest level in almost two years, according to two new reports.
In a damaging blow to the government efforts to boost growth, the latest monthly report …
Reeves to pledge closer EU ties in pivot from post-Brexit ‘division and chaos’
Rachel Reeves plans to end the UK’s “fractious” post-Brexit accord with the EU, a relationship she said had been defined by “division and chaos”, by promising closer ties in the first speech by a UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers since 2020.
Reeves will say she wants to adopt a …
We need proper policies, Keir Starmer, not more pledges | Letters
How depressing that the Labour party seems so bereft of ideas that all it can do as a new government is to castigate the civil service for its lacklustre performance (
Starmer may view Whitehall reform as essential to his missions, 6 December
). What does Labour expect? Any …ITV faces a hard sell to tempt suitors despite Carolyn McCall’s best efforts
enters her eighth year as boss of ITV
she might be forgiven for wondering if maybe she shouldn’t haveturned down a chance to run Marks & Spencer instead.
McCall revealed the approach back in 2016 while quashing speculation she was poised to …
From doctor to brutal dictator: the rise and fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
On the face of it at least, the Bashar al-Assad of 2002 presented a starkly different figure to the brutal autocrat he would become, presiding over a fragile state founded on torture, imprisonment and industrial murder.
He had been president then for just two years, succeeding his father, Hafez, whose …
Christmas dips and party nibbles run short as Bakkavor factory strike continues
Industrial action at …
Facebook UK cut 700 staff and reduced tax bill last year, accounts show
Facebook cut more than 700 employees in the UK last year at a cost of £79m, after parent company Meta embarked on its
first ever round of redundancies
as part of a global cost-cutting drive to offset a disastrous collapse in revenues.The company – which is …
Two-thirds of startups don’t last 10 years. The brutal truth is no one cares
Fall of Damascus sidelines Russia and brings Turkey to the fore
As celebratory gunfire was heard across liberated Syria, the diplomatic guns of Iran and Russia, in Doha to attend a major dialogue forum, fell silent, rendered powerless and irrelevant by events in Damascus.
Only 12 hours earlier the key external powers – Russia and Iran along with Turkey – had …
Elon Musk’s rumoured $100m donation may just fuel a fresh look at UK political funding
Elon Musk has denied he is gearing up to chuck $100m at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, as it pushes to take on the Tories. But the very fact the question arose is a reminder of the pressing need for political funding reform on this side of the Atlantic.
Musk …