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Badenoch’s department wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over potential tax break
Kemi Badenoch instructed her department to write to the Treasury about a potential tax break after an intervention from Dyson, documents have revealed.
In the minutes of a meeting during her time as business secretary last June, seen by the Guardian, it said Ian Robertson, a board member at the …
Friday briefing: Why Keir Starmer hopes this is the year to end the Channel crossing crisis
Good morning.
The number of people crossing the Channel to the UK in small boats rose by 25% in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to official figures. Over the past seven years, the numbers have risen dramatically – from 299 people arriving in 2018 to 36,816 migrants risking …
‘It didn’t come as a surprise’: UK workers on being forced back into the office
Christina says it is a “logistical nightmare” working out the school and nursery runs after being ordered to return to the office for three days a week from January. “It didn’t come as a surprise but it was devastating,” she says.
The 34-year-old chartered accountant from Scotland was told by …
‘Drab December’ caps another year of declining footfall on UK high street
High streets and other shopping destinations have had a “drab December”, ending another year of falling visitor numbers and raising fears of disappointing sales in the most important month for retailers.
Attendance at UK shopping centres, retail parks and high streets was down 2.2% in December compared with the same …
Families of Sicilian mafia victims fear return of freed mobsters
Families of victims killed by the Sicilian mafia have expressed fears that more than 20 senior mobsters released over the last three months may now return to the neighbourhoods they once controlled.
The majority of these bosses, some of whom held leadership roles in the main mafia families of Sicily’s …
Stolen skulls and colonial trauma: the Tanzanians searching for ancestral remains
The serene municipality of Songea is steeped in a history of violence. This remote corner of southern Tanzania was a centre of resistance to colonial rule during the early 20th century, when German colonialists executed local people and took the remains of many back to Europe.
For decades, descendants of …
Why supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flags
To outsiders, the unexpected combination may seem baffling. But to Yoon’s supporters, America represents …
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy hopes Trump’s ‘unpredictability’ can end war with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed hope that
US president-elect Donald Trump’s “unpredictability” can help end the war with Russia.
Trump, who takes office on 20 January, has said he will end the nearly three-year conflict in “24 hours” once in power, a claim that has drawn scepticism …
Doomed to fail? Hong Kong’s attempt to tackle ‘shoebox housing’ runs into trouble
Lai Shan Zse moves quickly, bounding up the grungy, dimly lit stairwell of the unit block in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district. The social worker knocks on a door and announces her arrival, moves into a tiny entranceway and past the tiled kitchenette from where an elderly lady waves, and …
‘They spread magic’: New Zealand’s ‘trail angels’ offer weary hikers food, showers and hope
American hiker Donna Barkley was weeks into walking New Zealand’s longest hiking trail when her strength started to falter. Starting at the northern tip of the country in mid-October, she had trudged south along vast empty coastlines, over farmland and through dense forests thick with mud.
“I have a new …