Reform UK has unveiled a controversial new policy that would allow wealthy non-domiciled individuals to legally avoid paying UK tax on foreign earnings, income, capital gains, and inheritance — in exchange for a one-off payment of £250,000 every 10 years. The so-called “Britannia Card”, announced by Reform leader Nigel Farage, is being marketed as a way to lure “tens of ...
Amazon has announced a sweeping £40 billion investment in the UK over the next three years as it ramps up its commitment to faster delivery, film production and digital infrastructure across the country. The tech giant revealed plans to open four new robotic fulfilment centres, one of which will be located in the East Midlands, with two others already announced ...
HSBC is facing a costly office space conundrum as it prepares to bring more staff back into the office, despite having significantly downsized its property footprint in the wake of the pandemic. The bank — Europe’s largest — now finds itself with so little planned workspace in London that, once it moves into its new office near St Paul’s Cathedral ...
Roughly three-quarters of the nation’s health insurance providers signed a series of commitments this week in an effort to improve patient care by reducing bureaucratic hurdles caused by insurance companies’ prior-authorization requirements. Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced the new voluntary pledge from ...
As the dust still settles following the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, analysts say the next steps will determine whether the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions have truly been crippled. Commenting on the mission, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that: ‘The damage to the Nuclear sites in Iran is said to be ‘monumental.’ The hits were hard and ...
Jeffrey A. Singer In recent testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty A. Makary, MD, said he favored streamlining the agency’s approval process for biosimilar drugs. Analogous to generic drugs that compete with conventional, chemically synthesized pharmaceuticals, biosimilar drugs compete with biologic medicines, which are derived from natural sources, are complex, and may contain combinations ...
Walter Olson Number eleven in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: New York City’s Democratic primary Tuesday has put a spotlight on ranked choice voting. As I often say, RCV has no intrinsic tilt toward left or right, but tends to improve the fit between voters’ overall preferences whatever they may be and the pick. While ...
A moderate House Democrat is offering rare praise for President Donald Trump after his precision strikes on Iran over the weekend. ‘Iran is governed by a regime that is hostile to the United States and allied with others that seek the destruction of America. They sponsor terrorist organizations that have killed American troops and citizens and are a source of ...
Iran launched a retaliatory attack on Al-Udeid, the American airbase in Qatar on Monday, which President Donald Trump characterized as a ‘very weak response.’ ‘Iran has officially responded to our Obliteration of their Nuclear Facilities with a very weak response, which we expected, and have very effectively countered. There have been 14 missiles fired — 13 were knocked down, and ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is demanding President Donald Trump and his senior officials ‘justify’ the U.S. military’s recent strikes in Iran. ‘We’ve seen no evidence to date that an offensive strike of this nature was justified under the War Powers Act or the Constitution,’ Jeffries said. ‘But the whole reason for the Trump administration to undertake that process is ...