A BELOVED Michelin-listed restaurant has closed after nearly 10 years of service. The owner has said the decision to close the town centre eaterie “feels like a bereavement”. Sorrel Restaurant in D…

Richard Smith has a message for the Prime Minister on his first day in charge. We will hear over the next few days news of our new Chancellor and the place for our Pensions Minister. Much will change but pensions will still need the support of our Government. We will continue to depend on the state pension, on occupational pensions and on what we did and do with personal pensions.

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assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else. Click to read The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public. Which is what…

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It is hard to talk about death, but some people let their feelings out in written words and share them with those they know, those they don’t , those they’d like to know. My frie…

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Malaysia-based Karex produces more than five billion condoms a year and supplies global brands like Durex and Trojan.

The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...

assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else. Click to read The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.