Prices rose by 3 per cent last month – the same rate as the month before. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that – ironically – falling petrol costs were one of the main things keeping the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) from climbing. This data was, of course, collected before the latest conflict in the Middle East – ...
There are few things more savagely amusing than a disgraced member of the BBC becoming indignant. (‘Member’ seems the oddly appropriate word, considering how employees seem to conform on everything from loving transvestites to hating Israel.)
It’s hardly surprising, though still rather shocking, that Huw Edwards, a keen viewer of indecent images of ...
Could an agreement for Britain to join Europe’s defence fund ‘Security Action for Europe’ (Safe) be back on the cards? Speaking in Paris yesterday, European Council president Antonio Costa suggested as much. ‘It could take some weeks, months, but for sure, we will achieve an agreement with the UK on the Safe issue,’ he said.
Nato officials last ...
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, the British couple imprisoned in Iran on spying charges, have issued a desperate plea for help, saying they feel abandoned by the UK. The pair want the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, to ‘step up’, describing how they feel ‘let down, alone and completely frustrated’.
It was reckless, and simply asking for trouble, to enter ...
Its landslide in South Australia suggests Labor is building a new political Centre and pushing the divisive politics of grievance to the fringes, writes Michael Thorn. read now...
Giorgia Meloni has suffered the first significant defeat of her three-and-a-half-year premiership.
The Italians have roundly rejected her plans to reform Italy’s sclerotic judicial system – even though those plans were in the election manifesto that persuaded so many of them to vote for her. It is unlikely now that any Italian government will attempt ...
Three weeks before Bluesfest was scheduled to kick off, proprietor Peter Noble had not yet secured insurance coverage. Now in liquidation, the financial state of the festival is becoming increasingly
At the end of last week, the Government suggested there should be resonant names – that evoked the grandeur of past heroes – for seven magnificent New Towns to be built across England. Just as Clement Attlee had envisioned a new Jerusalem after years of Tory neglect, so Labour would once again build the wholly new settlements of the future.
If Leeds ...
The visit to Australia is unusual for one of the world's major tech companies' CEOs, and comes as Anthropic is sparring with the Trump Administration. The post Anthropic CEO
Energy policy is, ultimately, a judgement call on the future. It is a suite of decisions tied to predictions about demand, supply, geopolitics, and public consent. Some decisions pay off for decades. Others unravel as the world shifts. Even ‘letting the market decide’ requires a strategy. Markets sit within infrastructure, taxation, and regulation. ...
ABC staff have gone on strike nationwide for the first time in two decades. Crikey was at Sydney's Ultimo to witness the walk out. The post ‘Just not acceptable’: On
Every time Chris Bowen ducks out of an aeroplane to say, ‘Don’t panic!’ Australians are left with the distinct feeling they should probably start panicking.
A few days ago, the Climate Change and Energy Minister thought it would be a good idea to take time off from a critical fuel crisis to attend a Brisbane climate conference where he repeated his ...
Prices rose by 3 per cent last month – the same rate as the month before. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that – ironically – falling petrol costs were one of the main things keeping the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) from climbing. This data was, of course, collected before the latest conflict in the Middle East – ...
There are few things more savagely amusing than a disgraced member of the BBC becoming indignant. (‘Member’ seems the oddly appropriate word, considering how employees seem to conform on everything from loving transvestites to hating Israel.)
It’s hardly surprising, though still rather shocking, that Huw Edwards, a keen viewer of indecent images of ...
Could an agreement for Britain to join Europe’s defence fund ‘Security Action for Europe’ (Safe) be back on the cards? Speaking in Paris yesterday, European Council president Antonio Costa suggested as much. ‘It could take some weeks, months, but for sure, we will achieve an agreement with the UK on the Safe issue,’ he said.
Nato officials last ...
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, the British couple imprisoned in Iran on spying charges, have issued a desperate plea for help, saying they feel abandoned by the UK. The pair want the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, to ‘step up’, describing how they feel ‘let down, alone and completely frustrated’.
It was reckless, and simply asking for trouble, to enter ...
Its landslide in South Australia suggests Labor is building a new political Centre and pushing the divisive politics of grievance to the fringes, writes Michael Thorn. read now...
Giorgia Meloni has suffered the first significant defeat of her three-and-a-half-year premiership.
The Italians have roundly rejected her plans to reform Italy’s sclerotic judicial system – even though those plans were in the election manifesto that persuaded so many of them to vote for her. It is unlikely now that any Italian government will attempt ...
Three weeks before Bluesfest was scheduled to kick off, proprietor Peter Noble had not yet secured insurance coverage. Now in liquidation, the financial state of the festival is becoming increasingly
At the end of last week, the Government suggested there should be resonant names – that evoked the grandeur of past heroes – for seven magnificent New Towns to be built across England. Just as Clement Attlee had envisioned a new Jerusalem after years of Tory neglect, so Labour would once again build the wholly new settlements of the future.
If Leeds ...
The visit to Australia is unusual for one of the world's major tech companies' CEOs, and comes as Anthropic is sparring with the Trump Administration. The post Anthropic CEO
Energy policy is, ultimately, a judgement call on the future. It is a suite of decisions tied to predictions about demand, supply, geopolitics, and public consent. Some decisions pay off for decades. Others unravel as the world shifts. Even ‘letting the market decide’ requires a strategy. Markets sit within infrastructure, taxation, and regulation. ...
ABC staff have gone on strike nationwide for the first time in two decades. Crikey was at Sydney's Ultimo to witness the walk out. The post ‘Just not acceptable’: On
Every time Chris Bowen ducks out of an aeroplane to say, ‘Don’t panic!’ Australians are left with the distinct feeling they should probably start panicking.
A few days ago, the Climate Change and Energy Minister thought it would be a good idea to take time off from a critical fuel crisis to attend a Brisbane climate conference where he repeated his ...
