The cost of government borrowing jumped on Friday morning, while UK stocks and the pound were up, as markets digested the news of billions in borrowing and tax rises announced in the budget.
In 2019, Time magazine named Greta Thunberg its youngest-ever Person of the Year, as world leaders and commentators all hastened to bask in the reflected glory of this new environmental star. Thunberg’s powerful influence was even dubbed the “Greta effect” thanks to thousands of students remaking themselves in her climate-warrior image. But, five years on, that blind hero worship of an increasingly militant Thunberg looks naïve at best and dangerous at worst.
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario could cut off energy to the U.S. if president-elect Donald Trump makes good on a threat to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods.Ford told reporters at Queen's Park that federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will put together a list of items upon which Canada could impose retaliatory tariffs and so will the Ontario government."We will go to the full extent depending how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michiga
A UK Government department splashed £1200 of taxpayers’ money on two folders, figures show.
Volodymyr Zelensky may have just called last orders on his relationship with Joe Biden in one of the most open assaults on the outgoing president to date.
Bill Clinton weighed in on whether he believes President Joe Biden should preemptively pardon his wife Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump’s re-taking office in January during his Wednesday sit down on .The View Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Clinton whether he thinks Hillary Clinton should receive a pardon, especially following threats to further investigate her from Trump’s pick for the head of the FBI, Kash Patel. “They got a problem with her because,” Clinton began, laughing, “first, she didn’t do an
Russia organised for Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow via its air base on the Syrian coast as rebels broke into Damascus on Sunday, Kremlin sources have said.
Public sector workers will be handed another £1bn a year in pension contributions on top of their latest pay rise.
‘America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,’ Biden said in a statement
Moscow on Wednesday accused Kyiv of firing US-supplied ATACAMS missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region and threatened to retaliate. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine's "destructive" approach made peace impossible. Russia on Wednesday vowed retribution against Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of firing Western-supplied missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region.President Vladimir Putin has previously threatened to launch a hypersonic ballistic missi
Fishing rights were a constant source of tension following the UK’s exit from the EU
The president-elect appeared very confused about how American citizenship is conferred.
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
The New York attorney general’s office told Trump’s lawyers there was “no basis” for the president-elect to evade paying the massive civil fine.
The president-elect's son congratulated Guilfoyle after he was apparently pictured holding hands with another woman.
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Labour ministers have spent £130,000 redecorating their offices despite Rachel Reeves vowing to wage a war on government waste.
British supercar maker McLaren has been sold to an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, in a deal presided over by the Emirate’s crown prince.
The suggestions comes as Donald Trump has been trolling Canada about becoming a U.S. state
The Russian leader is suddenly very much in favour of "adherence to international law".
$83 billion has just been sitting there underground this whole time.
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