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France Admits It Has No Solution to Channel Crossings — While Holding £662 Million of British Taxpayers’ Money
Bank of England Warns of Persistent Inflation Risk as Energy Prices Remain Volatile
Healey Takes the Chancellorship but Loses the Argument on Defence Spending
European Retirement Ages Set to Rise Sharply Over the Coming Decades, OECD Data Shows
France Admits It Has No Solution to Channel Crossings — While Holding £662 Million of British Taxpayers’ Money
Bank of England Warns of Persistent Inflation Risk as Energy Prices Remain Volatile
Healey Takes the Chancellorship but Loses the Argument on Defence Spending
European Retirement Ages Set to Rise Sharply Over the Coming Decades, OECD Data Shows
FIFA Pushes Back Against Boycott Threat as World Cup Commercialisation Row Deepens
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BP Puts North Sea Assets Up for Sale After Six Decades of Production
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Women’s Rights Group Drops Legal Action Against Belfast Festival After Out-of-Court Settlement
A dispute between a women’s advocacy organisation and one of Ireland’s largest community festivals has…
Social Care Reform: Andy Burnham’s Ambition, the Dilnot Blueprint, and the Hard Politics of Paying for It
A Problem That Has Outlasted Every Prime Minister Who Tried to Solve It Social care…
Bank of England Warns of Persistent Inflation Risk as Energy Prices Remain Volatile
Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill cautioned on Friday that Britain faces a gradual build-up of long-term inflation pressures, driven by the surge in energy prices that has followed the Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz since late February. Pill, who on Thursday joined Megan Greene and Catherine Mann in voting…
France Admits It Has No Solution to Channel Crossings — While Holding £662 Million of British Taxpayers’ Money
There is something quietly extraordinary about a government agreeing to hand a foreign state £662 million of public money, and then watching that state’s officials announce, with apparent equanimity, that they have no solution to the problem the money was meant to solve. Yet that is precisely where Britain finds itself in the summer of 2026,…
Healey Takes the Chancellorship but Loses the Argument on Defence Spending
When John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in June, he did so with a clear and unambiguous demand: Britain must commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030. It was a principled stand, and his subsequent elevation to Chancellor under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham looked, on the surface, like a vindication.…
United States Launches Retaliatory Strikes Against Iran Following IRGC Attack on American Forces
The United States has struck Iran directly, in what the Pentagon framed as a measured…
Steve Wynn Sells Beverly Hills Estate at a Loss as California’s Ultra-Luxury Market Cools
A Mansion’s Long Decline When casino mogul Steve Wynn quietly began shopping his Beverly Hills…
HMRC’s July 31 Deadline: What Self-Assessment Taxpayers Must Know Before Saturday
The origins of this particular pressure point lie in a structural feature of the British…
Andy Burnham’s Welfare Dilemma: Can He Cut the Benefits Bill Without Splitting His Party?
What is Burnham actually proposing? Andy Burnham has made reducing Britain’s £333 billion welfare bill…
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Healey Takes the Chancellorship but Loses the Argument on Defence Spending
When John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in June, he did so with a clear and unambiguous demand: Britain must…
European Retirement Ages Set to Rise Sharply Over the Coming Decades, OECD Data Shows
The normal retirement age across the European Union is projected to increase by approximately two years for men and 2.6…
Social Care Reform: Andy Burnham’s Ambition, the Dilnot Blueprint, and the Hard Politics of Paying for It
A Problem That Has Outlasted Every Prime Minister Who Tried to Solve It Social care reform has defeated every administration…
Andy Burnham’s Welfare Dilemma: Can He Cut the Benefits Bill Without Splitting His Party?
What is Burnham actually proposing? Andy Burnham has made reducing Britain’s £333 billion welfare bill a central ambition of his…
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