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‘We will always be your people’: Wolff says emotional goodbye to Hamilton
Toto Wolff has bid Lewis Hamilton a heartfelt final farewell with what the Mercedes team principal called the most important message he has ever sent, as Hamilton
prepares to join Ferrari next season
. atthe season finale …
Marina Hyde concludes her powerful piece about the archbishop of Canterbury’s demitting address to the House of Lords with the observation that mandatory reporting should be a legal requirement (
Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself, 6 November
).Appended to …
A quick-fix way for Rachel Reeves to tax the wealthy | Letters
George Osborne is a walking ad for a wealth tax. Labour should target the inheritocracy, 3 December
), of course a tax on wealth as well as on income has been needed for a long time. But how about this for a quick fix? …Time to clean up political donations in Britain | Letters
The conversation about donations is too narrow (
Can we keep the Elon Musks of the world out of British politics? Only if we act now, 3 December
). Donors buy influence to achieve their personal and business policy objectives at the expense of the majority. Unsolicited donations, no …Hooked on Horrible Histories | Brief letters
Mike Ashley has the right critique of Boohoo. But he doesn’t belong on its board | Nils Pratley
Make-your-mind-up-time approaches for Boohoo’s shareholders in the great showdown with Mike Ashley. The Sports Direct maestro wants a seat on the Boohoo board for him and a mate, to go with the 27% shareholding his Frasers Group holds in the struggling online retailer. The vote is on 20 December and, …
Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip
It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.
Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.
That’s 10 septillion years, a number that far exceeds the …
Croydon schoolgirl Elianne Andam stabbed in ‘white-hot anger’, court told
A dispute over a teddy bear led to a 15-year-old school girl being stabbed to death by a boy consumed with “white-hot anger”, a jury has heard.
Hassan Sentamu, now 18, denies the murder of Elianne Andam in Croydon last September.
The Old Bailey heard Elianne had gone with her …
Claims management companies circle after UK court ruling on mis-sold car finance
A cloud of anxiety was hanging over the British Motor Museum. Alongside showrooms featuring the 1988 Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-9 and the Land Rover Defender used in opening scenes of the James Bond film Skyfall, were conference rooms filled with worried lawyers, bankers and compliance staff from across the motor …
Luxury cars and high-end labels: shocked Syrians roam Assad family residences
As prisoners were set free from their subterranean jail cells around Damascus, shocked crowds roamed the ousted former president Bashar al-Assad’s mansions to grab what they could carry – and marvel at the trappings of his wealth.
Pictures from the presidential palace showed a man carrying a beige plush chair …