Oxbridge is being replaced at the apex of UK universities by ‘Stoxbridge’ after St Andrews pipped Oxford and Cambridge to the top of the latest Guardian University Guide. It is the first time a Fife university has taken the top spot in the Guardian’s annual guide to undergraduate courses, pushing Oxford into second place and …
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Home Secretary Suella Braverman tells police to stop BBC gestures Home Secretary tells police she ‘hopes’ they will cut murders by 20%, but won’t say as The Independent Forget the wake and fight crime, Suella Braverman orders the police The Times The public expects the police to visit the scene of every robbery, Suella Braverman …
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UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced a permanent reduction in stamp duty for property purchases in England and Northern Ireland, a move that is part of a mini-budget that critics say will reward more the rich than those with lower incomes. Under the new system, effective from Friday, the first £250,000 of a property’s value …
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In a radical package of tax cuts, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has brought forward a reduction in the basic rate of income tax relief, cut National Insurance contributions and abolished the additional rate of l ‘income tax. Kwarteng announced in his mini-budget on Friday that the 1pc cut in the basic rate of income tax, first …
Gareth Southgate has been here before, in his nightmares at Molineux. In June, at the end of the 4-0 humiliation against Hungary, the England manager had ventured onto the pitch to cheers from the home crowd. The boos that greeted him dripped with venom. And so full time here. After Hungary at home; goodness, after …
In Nations League terms, that’s relegated England. The meeting of Group B countries awaits from here. Next time, England could leave on a midnight train to Georgia. Not to mention Albania or Montenegro. The bigger picture is what this says about England’s World Cup preparations. England have scored just one goal in competitive football since …
An emotional Roger Federer wishes he could ‘go on forever’ as he prepares to retire from tennis A historic night of tennis awaits in London as Roger Federer bids farewell to the sport and plays the final match of his career alongside Rafael Nadal at the Laver Cup. Perhaps the greatest champion in tennis history, …
K wasi Kwarteng has unveiled a mini-budget offering billions of pounds worth of tax cuts, including a surprise move to scrap the top 45% rate of income tax paid by Britain’s richest. The chancellor announced sweeping moves aimed at boosting the economy in the much-anticipated “fiscal event” on Friday morning. The government is calling it …
Simon Clarke, the Equalization Secretary, is on the mid-morning rounds for the government as he sets the stage ahead of Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget”. During an interview with Sky News, Mr Clarke was told that the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank had described Liz Truss’s strategy for achieving economic growth as “at best a gamble” …
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Referendums are a ‘propaganda show’, official of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, tweeted to reiterate Ukraine’s position on the “referendums” that began today under Russian control in the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. He tweeted: Today, there is no legal action called “referendum” in …