⚡ A remembered £500 energy bill is now around £1,700. As bills and borrowing costs rise, the new price can start to feel normal. 📈

Argentina’s prosperity concealed concentrated land and power. Part 4 asks whether Britain’s regional, financial and institutional strengths hide structural weakness.

The inquiry was unfinished, but the public verdict was complete. Jason Arday’s story exposes Britain’s presumption of Black illegitimacy.

Let’s begin with a statement of fact: mega mergers in Hollywood are bad for writers. They’re also bad for actors and directors, for production designers and caterers, for carpenters and Teamsters and electricians and set decorators. They are bad for consumers, who get fewer choices in entertainment controlled by fewer bosses with narrower worldviews. Mergers are bad for local businesses, who lose paying customers from disappearing productions. They are bad for high level TV and film executives, and entry-level assistants, and everyone in between.

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🔥 Britain faces heatwaves, drought, wildfires and failing infrastructure, yet the answer is disposable barbecues. Big problems. Small answers. This is what managing decline looks like. 🚨💧

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Can there be poetic justice in politics? Perhaps once in a lifetime. In 1989, a young Viktor Orbán bravely told the...

The agency’s top official told lawmakers that the “vast majority” of calls were answered. New data indicates most people couldn’t get through.

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