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Catch the latest Financial News EventsWorkers, pensioners and children: all better off. Ignore the critics – we really are standing up for working people | Keir Starmer
Day-one rights to statutory sick pay and paternity leave begin on Monday, and that fits the pattern. From my own life, I know people’s anxieties, and I will respondStarmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at riskThis week 27 years...
‘Barbara Windsor smacked our bottoms!’ Pet Shop Boys on showstopping visuals, horrified bosses – and snubbing the queen
As a 600-page doorstopper celebrates their groundbreaking costumes, gigs, sleeves and videos, the duo talk about ‘side-stepping the pop-star thing’ – and the naked trampolinist EMI had to censorIn 1988, when he was 20, Wolfgang Tillmans tore an A0 poster off a...
Sick pay rule changes to benefit up to 9.6m UK workers, TUC says
Union says new entitlements, part of Employment Rights Act 2025, will help lower-income householdsUp to 9.6 million UK workers are to benefit from the changes to sick pay rules, according to unions. They say the policy has widespread support from voters despite...
We’ve gone mad for puzzles. This makes sense – it’s reassuring to have answers in these perplexing times | Joseph de Weck
Our world feels chaotic, confusing and unfair, but puzzles offer clear rules, solvable problems and reward for effort expendedMaybe you’ve noticed it too. Everyone seems to have become fixated on puzzle games. In the morning, over coffee, I play Word Wheel on the...