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The UK lingers far below the OECD average when it comes to employment protection. Research by the Centre for Business Research at the University of...
The havoc unleashed by Hurricane Milton provided unambiguous evidence that we are entering a critical and alarming new phase in the planet’s climate...
Britons aged 18 to 30 can apply for visas to live and work for a limited time in 13 countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as part of...
Money and power have enabled men throughout time to get away with the most appalling abuse and keep it quiet. The sheer number of allegations of...
Last week’s report by Lord Ara Darzi on the state of the country’s health service made bleak reading. In relentless detail, the distinguished...
‘So pervasive is the Taliban’s institutionalised gender oppression, and so slender are the spaces in which women and girls may live freely, that...
‘Things will get worse before they get better.” That was the gloomy prognosis from Keir Starmer in his first set-piece speech as prime minister in...
The young people who took their GCSEs this summer were in their first year of secondary school when the pandemic hit in 2020. For many, their results...
Public sector pay has fallen by 2.5% in real terms since 2010, while private sector pay rose by just under 4% in the same period. Nurses’ pay fell...
Last Wednesday, businesses closed early and shops boarded up in anticipation of an outbreak of far-right violence in some parts of the country. Six...
You have to hand it to Joe. Two weeks ago, isolating at his home in Delaware, sick with Covid and sick at heart over his imminent decision to abandon...
The speed and single-mindedness with which Kamala Harris secured the Democratic presidential nomination following Joe Biden’s sudden decision last...
Britain’s public finances are in a desperate state. That is the key message the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will deliver in a speech on Monday, which...
One bit of good news about the “epic IT crash” that brought the western world to a temporary standstill is that it was a product of human error...
Carol. Hannah. Louise. Three women, killed in a chilling, apparently targeted murder in their home last week. A quotidian horror, remarkable only for...
Joe Biden’s political future is a matter of huge concern to all who care about democracy, progressive values and the security of the western world....
It could not come soon enough. After 14 years, Britain at last has a government motivated by re-energising a sluggish economy rather than channelling...
On Thursday, voters will have a historic opportunity, not just decisively to evict one of the worst governments this country has ever endured. They...
Vladimir Putin’s visits to North Korea and Vietnam last week caused great consternation among the western powers, which was undoubtedly his...
Economic growth will be the linchpin of Labour’s strategy for government if it wins the election, as it is comfortably expected to do in two weeks....
Those complaining about the tedium and predictability of the UK’s general election must gaze with envy across the Channel to France, a country...
The Britain that the next government will inherit on 5 July has been profoundly misgoverned for 14 years. Productivity, the heart of prosperity, has...
‘As we gather here today, it is not just to honour those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day … it’s to listen to the echoes of their...
There is one pressing issue affecting millions of people that has been conspicuous in its absence from the general election campaign so far. The...