Spring Statement: Growth remains elusive
The biggest news from the Chancellor’s Spring Statement was perhaps that it contained no big news. Dispelling the characterisation of the statement as.
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Govt: £2bn for affordable housing
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement later today, the government has announced an extra £2 billion to support affordable and social housing schemes..
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Self-defeating war on non-doms
Britain, in its infinite wisdom, has finally stood up to the non-doms. The message? “Take your billions, your ballet funding, your school endowments,.
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1.2m worse off after welfare changes
The Resolution Foundation think-tank estimated that the government’s proposed changes to the benefit system will leave as many as 1.2 million people £4,300.
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War on bats, newts and clipboards
In a bold act of 21st-century conservation, the UK government has chosen to preserve nature by… bulldozing it. That’s right – ecologists, brace.
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Reports don’t fix potholes
Talking a good game. Blagging. Spouting hot air. Nothing is more infuriating than politicians and bureaucrats blame-shifting and giving breezy platitudes about how.
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Turkey: Erdogan’s rival arrested
The mask has slipped in Ankara. And in its place? A performance of power so brazen, it barely pretends to be anything else..
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Canada election: Carney in poll
Canadians will vote in a General Election on April 28 – and what once looked to be a forgone conclusion is now wide.
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Canada: Election called
Mark Carney, the newly minted Prime Minister of Canada, less than 10 days into the role, has called a snap election for April.
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Africa: The generation who won’t be silenced
A revolution is simmering beneath the neon glow of Africa’s cities. Not a revolution of guns and barricades, but of perception, ambition and.