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Catch the latest Financial News EventsBoost for chancellor as UK public finances see record-breaking surplus of £XXbn
Figure is largest January total since records began and marks sharp reversal from December’s deficit of £11.6bnThe UK government enjoyed a record-breaking surplus in January, official figures show, due to a big boost in self-assessment and capital gains tax...
Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints
Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed bandits‘The art world has a real issue with making things overly...
Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’
From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries,...
British woman jailed for 10 years in Iran describes ‘endurance test’ of detention
Speaking before she was sentenced with husband Craig, Lindsay Foreman tells of being on emotional rollercoasterThe woman sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Iranian revolutionary court has said she had undergone an “endurance test for the mind” as she pleaded her...