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(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Keir Starmer is set to travel to China and has appealed for business leaders to accompany him. You don’t do...
A cartoon in response to the 'Window tax' in 1696 On this day, 9 January 1799, Britain introduced its first ‘temporary’ income tax. Workers...
Civil service headcount has reached a 20-year high, bigger than it was during Brexit or Covid. Yet more proof that this Prime Minister’s only belief...
Image generated by Chat GPT At the beginning of 2025 I gave caution the slip and made five predictions for the year in politics. One was wrong: I...
BOURNEMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 26: Education, Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls (L) talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at...
27th December 1950: The Coronation Throne in Westminster Abbey after the theft of the Stone of Destiny, or Stone of Scone. The initials JFS newly...
In 1783, the King needed a fifth Prime Minister in two years. Despite others’ doubts, he turned to 24-year-old William Pitt, on this day, to turn...
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - MAY 9: General views of the the Northern Ireland Covid Enquiry taking place at the Clayton Hotel on May 9, 2024 in...
NEW YORK - JANUARY 5: Bernard Madoff (C) walks out from Federal Court after a bail hearing in Manhattan January 5, 2009 in New York City. Madoff is...
Nigel Farage is looking to take control of the narrative before the Budget. How credible are rumours of a deal between Reform UK and the...
(Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images) David Lammy is seeking to solve a shortage of resources in the justice system by fundamentally rewriting the...
398086 02: Meredith Stewart (L), who worked in Enron's networking/data processing department, sits on her personal belongings in front of the...
(Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) On 28 November 1990, Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street for the last time, leaving the United...
(Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Starmer’s cringe-making video address to his son for International Men’s Day only served to underline how odd...
Kyle places tech as a key leaver for economic growth Against a backdrop of catastrophic briefings and an upcoming Budget doom, contenders are vying...
OVIEDO, SPAIN - OCTOBER 24: (L-R) Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf, Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee attend a media...
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (Photo by Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Prince Harry has never posed as a deep thinker, but his paean to...
5th November 1605, English conspirator Guy Fawkes (1570 - 1606) is arrested whilst attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament, in protest against...
Nigel Farage has vowed to make sweeping spending cuts before introducing tax cuts if Reform get elected into government. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty...
A protester at a demonstration at the proposed site of China's embassy. One day the story of China’s “super-embassy”, whether it is built or...
On this day, 27 October 1986: Big Bang hits the Square Mile, and changes the City forever. Eliot Wilson takes us through the financial revolution By...
The Royal Navy ship of the line and flag ship of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson the HMS Victory flying the famous signal "England expects that every man...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing difficulty in limiting government borrowing. Inflation is the unseen robber that diminishes our savings and...
Customers and staff in a London pub, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) On this day in 1814, the perils of drink would show...
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