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Catch the latest Financial News EventsThe play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’
A school production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failureUntil I was 12 I was in the French school system, where theatre was Molière, Corneille, Racine. Going to the theatre meant The Sound of...
‘Poorly thought through’: UK food firms say packaging tax is pushing up prices
Green groups defend ‘essential’ levy, but Heck sausages and Gü desserts among those who say shoppers will pick up tabA packaging tax designed to end our throwaway society is under fire for inadvertently adding to food price inflation as it pushes up the cost of...
Grooming gangs inquiry will never be watered down, home secretary says, after survivors resign from panel – UK politics live
Keir Starmer likely to face PMQs grilling on claims the inquiry has descended into ‘chaos’Good morning. One of the reasons why Shabana Mahmood was appointed home secretary was because, as justice secretary, when the Tories came at her with a “two-tier justice” attack...
UK inflation unexpectedly remains at 3.8% for third month in a row
Annual September rate is same as August and July but confounds forecasts of cost of living increaseInflation was unchanged last month at 3.8%, confounding expectations of an increase, official figures show.The Office for National Statistics said that inflation...