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Despite the promises, Labour may have to acknowledge more tax rises are needed | Heather Stewart
It seems unlikely Rachel Reeves had “cut back public spending plans” on her list of new year resolutions – but by the end of a rocky week, it was clear she has the red pen ready, if bond markets fail to settle down.
At one level, this makes perfect logical …
‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes - and the women fighting back
It began with an anonymous email. “I’m genuinely so, so sorry to reach out to you,” it read. Beneath the words were three links to an internet forum. “Huge trigger warning … They contain lewd photoshopped images of you.”
Jodie (not her real name) froze. In the past, the 27-year-old …
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?
The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th …
From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot
Tucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.
, one of …‘A welfare state with a budget on the right side of zero’: Iceland’s youngest-ever prime minister has a plan for a new kind of governance
Since then it has had multiple female presidents and prime ministers, but it wasn’t until …
UK can be ‘AI sweet spot’: Starmer’s tech minister on regulation, Musk, and free speech
prisons crisis
still teetering and Britain’sborrowing costs soaring
, there are few easy jobs going in Keir Starmer’s cabinet at present.But even in such difficult times, the task of convincing Silicon Valley’s finest to help make Britain a …
Tech giants told UK online safety laws ‘not up for negotiation’
Britain’s new laws to boost safety and tackle hate speech online are “not up for negotiation”, a senior government minister has warned, after Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg
to pressure countries they regard as “censoring” content.
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UK can be …
Reeves’ drive for growth seeks China lifeline after UK market turmoil
Rachel Reeves hailed a new era of “respectful and consistent future relations with China” as pressure grew on the embattled chancellor to deliver on her government’s central promise to fire up UK economic growth.
After meeting China’s vice-premier, He Lifeng, in Beijing, Reeves said Britain’s relationship with the world’s second …
‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages
Retail assistants have accused a gig economy firm of “holding them to ransom” by making them pay a fee if they want to receive their wages within a month.
A new payment system brought in by YoungOnes, which supplies “freelance” retail assistants to many well-known high street stores, charges gig …
If a Labour chancellor has to start cutting, keep calm. It’s not a betrayal
a tough public sector spending review
this year will cause alarm on Labour’s backbenches and an angry response from many inside the big public sector unions.Britain could be plunged back into months of industrial action if public spending cuts include restrictions on pay. …