Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered a bruising second Budget, confirming more than £30 billion in tax rises and abandoning earlier assurances that “working people” would be shielded from higher taxes. Instead, she told MPs she was asking “everyone to contribute”, with most households now set to be worse off and middle-income families bearing the brunt. While welfare payments, pensions and ...
Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described his refrigerator from the 1980s, asserting that it preserved lettuce for weeks beyond the capabilities of contemporary models. This was not just an offhanded comment by Vance, as he also said his takeaway from this anecdote ...
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff gave a senior Kremlin official tips on how to sell a Ukraine peace deal to President Donald Trump, a report said. Witkoff spoke by phone to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov on Oct. 14, advising him on how Putin should bring up the topic with the U.S. president, according to ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has described the accidental early publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report as “deeply disappointing”, after the market-sensitive document appeared online ahead of her Budget statement. Opening her remarks in the Commons, Reeves said the OBR had already taken “full responsibility” for the error. She stressed the government’s progress over the past 16 months in “rebuilding ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing mounting calls to resign from frustrated business owners after a series of leaks ahead of this week’s Budget – drawing comparisons with Labour Chancellor Hugh Dalton, who quit in 1947 after briefing a journalist moments before delivering his statement. The criticism intensified after the Office for Budget Responsibility accidentally published its full economic forecast online ...
Electric vehicle owners will be required to pay a new 3p-per-mile tax from 2028, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed today in the Autumn Budget — marking the UK’s first dedicated mileage charge for zero-emission cars. The measure is designed to offset the sharp decline in fuel duty revenue, which has fallen year-on-year as more motorists switch from petrol and diesel to ...
A Florida man was arrested after an FBI investigation linked him to multiple extremist group chats on the encrypted messaging app Signal, where agents claim he used aliases to share disturbing graphic messages, detailed instructions for explosives and violent neo-Nazi propaganda. Lucas Alexander Temple, 20, is facing federal charges for distribution of information regarding the manufacturing or use of explosives ...
Monitoring website traffic is crucial to knowing the interaction of your audience with the content, spotting the areas where you can grow, and making the necessary improvements. Google Analytics has been the main tool of choice for website analysis and monitoring for many years, but it is not the only available option. Let’s learn what other ways you can use ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress stunned House Republicans and sets up an even tighter majority in the lower chamber that could foil major legislative priorities. Whether it triggers a ripple effect of Republican lawmakers following her lead remains to be seen. Still, there are members of the House GOP who are frustrated by how events have unfolded ...
Colleen Hroncich When millions of children struggle to sit still, focus, and conform to rigid classroom expectations, it’s become an epidemic of ADHD and other disorders. The New York Times is beginning to consider what should have been obvious all along: Maybe the problem isn’t the children. Others, including my colleague Kerry McDonald, have been raising these concerns for years. ...