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Catch the latest Financial News EventsLabour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’A Labour minister who claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf had been personally...
UK reports record-breaking budget surplus of £30.4bn in surprise boost for Rachel Reeves
Largest January total since records began in 1993 is sharp reversal from December’s £11.6bn deficitThe UK government has posted the biggest ever budget surplus, official figures show, after a large boost in self-assessment and capital gains tax receipts.In a boost for...
Do you remember your first crappy job? Today’s young people would wish for half your luck | Gaby Hinsliff
The youth minimum wage is set to rise over this parliament, but it’s putting off employers from hiring people into their first rolesWhen Keir Starmer was 14 years old, he got a part-time job clearing stones from a local farmer’s field. At 16, Kemi Badenoch was...
‘He loved showing his bum. Loved it’: the subversive genius of Kenneth Williams
The actor, comedian and raconteur, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, could play humble or haughty, cheeky or Chekhov – but always stole the showWhen standup comic Tom Allen received Attitude magazine’s comedy award last year, he used his acceptance speech to salute...