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Solomon Frank: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
My ethos as an artist is taking silly things seriously, whether it’s dogs on reality television or farts. As a social media user in 2024, I’m cognisant of the way in which my experience online is shaped by the whims of billionaire technocrats. However, I need to consume 8m images …
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 …
GM to write down value of China business by more than $5bn
The company’s board of directors determined that the non-cash charges were necessary “in light of the finalization of a new business forecast and certain restructuring actions” …
Starmer and Badenoch clash at PMQs over Haigh’s undeclared criminal offence
Duolingo backer in £802m raid on London-listed training company
An educational training company is joining the exodus from the London stock exchange after agreeing to an £802m takeover by US private equity firm General Atlantic.
General Atlantic, which has a stake in the language-learning app Duolingo, is buying Learning Technologies Group (LTG) for £802.4m in a gamble on rising …
‘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 …
The happiest place to live in the UK? It’s not London …
It may not have the bright lights of London or Edinburgh, or even the celebrity or notoriety of some of the Great Britain’s better known villages and towns.
But in one respect, Woodbridge in Suffolk seems to trump them all: it is the happiest place to live in Britain. At …
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 …
UK services sector ‘close to stalling’ after budget tax rises, data shows
Growth in the UK’s dominant services sector slowed to its lowest rate in more than a year in November as firms digested business tax rises in the autumn budget.
The closely watched S&P Global UK services PMI survey scored 50.8 in November, slowing from 52.0 in October.
It was slightly …
Why is France facing a no-confidence vote and what happens next?
The French parliament is expected
to vote today on a no-confidence motion
against prime minister Michel Barnier’s minority government.Here’s the parliamentary arithmetic that explains how we got here and how the vote could play out.
Why couldn’t Michel Barnier pass his budget?
The crisis came to …