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Two-child benefit cap ‘will be scrapped’ in Scotland, vows SNP
The Scottish government has unveiled plans to scrap Westminster’s controversial two-child benefit cap to lift thousands of “children out of poverty”.
Scotland’s finance secretary, Shona Robison, said her budget for the coming year “offers hope for Scotland’s future”, announcing that the two-child cap on benefits would be scrapped in Scotland …
Jimmy Kimmel on GOP reaction to Hunter Biden pardon: ‘Absolutely exploding with pretend outrage’
Police raid migrant smuggling ring accused over small boat Channel crossings
Police have carried out dawn raids in several cities in
and France in an internationally coordinated operation to smash a network accused of smuggling migrants to Britain in small boats.Coordinated with Europol, the French security service and British police after months of intelligence-gathering, the raids …
What do the latest GDP figures tell us? That the RBA is still getting it very wrong | Greg Jericho
The Australian economy is now so weak due to the Reserve Bank’s 13 interest rate hikes that were it not for commonwealth and state government spending and investment, we would now be in a recession and close to 100,000 more people would be out of work.
The trouble with GDP …
Starmer and Badenoch clash at PMQs over Haigh’s undeclared criminal offence
‘Democracy isn’t supposed to work like this’: disbelief in Seoul in wake of martial law upheaval
The mood outside South Korea’s parliament was a mix of anger and bewilderment on Wednesday afternoon, hours after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s
shocking, albeit thwarted, declaration of martial law
.The pre-dawn events caught many South Koreans off guard. Those who had slept through it awoke to the …
England’s Ben Stokes demands answers from ICC after latest over-rate sanctions
Ben Stokes has revealed a personal stand-off with the International Cricket Council about over-rate penalties, including his refusal as England captain to sign the relevant post-match paperwork as a protest against the system.
Speaking before the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, and naming an unchanged England XI as …
Will the far right in France seize the chance to topple the government?
With threats mounting inside and outside the EU’s borders and
, the last thing Europe needed was fresh upheaval besetting its other big power. Yet that is exactly what France is facing with ano-confidence vote
expected today thatcould bring down the …
Who is Yoon Suk Yeol, the controversial South Korean president who tried and failed to impose martial law?
Rail renationalisation should reduce delays but may not cut fares, says UK minister
The renationalising of train companies will not necessarily bring cheaper rail fares but should reduce cancellations and late trains, the UK transport secretary has suggested.
South Western Railway is to become the first train operator nationalised under the
government,ministers announced on Wednesday
. Greater Anglia …