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Reaching for the tax-cutting playbook won’t solve Britain’s problems, the current crisis was a decade in the making before Covid

The non-working parent would benefit from a full £12,570 tax allowance, according to the proposal

Voters have given the British prime minister a kicking but the next election is still the Tories’ to lose.

13 Aventras accepted for TfL Rail as first nine-car '345s' begin testing on the Great Western Main Line

There’s no reason to believe government committees can generally better entrepreneurial innovation 11 February 2021 • 7:00pm Internal sentiment about a government’s economic competence invariably hinges on its last major action. So the UK’s relative success with vaccines has, for now, seemingly wiped ministers’ memories clean of the PPE debacle, contact tracing difficulties and scrambled attempts to build spare capacity in our rationed healthcare system. Just as after victories in war...

Austin 360 Austinites driving by the site of bar and music venue Stay Gold in the past few days may have noticed a sign (literally) of changes afoot. Where the neon Stay Gold sign once stood in the parking lot at 1910 E. Cesar Chavez St., theres now a new sign identifying the business as the Long Play Lounge. Its not a full-scale change, though. The new name connects the former Stay Gold location with the original Long Play Lounge, which opened a couple of years ago at 704 W. St. Johns Ave. in ...

7 things to know in Austin food now: Popular east side dive bar closes Stay Gold has closed  Photo by Nicole Raney Editors note: We get it. It can be difficult to keep up with the fast pace of Austins restaurant and bar scene. We have you covered with our regular roundup of essential food news. Openings and closings As the saying goes, nothing gold can stay. Stay Gold, the craft cocktail, live music dive on East Cesar Chavez has closed after six years, however, the bar will not stay empty f...

Thinktank adds to pressure on PM from opposition to extend £20-a-week universal credit uplift

Role on the world stage, keeping us all safe. >> im sure in recent years, you never could have even imagined that question being asked. is this something youve entertained the possibility that the u.s. might pull out? or are you not willing to go there? >> i personally dont think i can add very much on that particular point, but i do think the u.k. and prime minister johnson and members of his cabinet will be urging their counterparts in the u.s. about just how critical the u.s. is to nato and h...

British election. the president and members of the north atlantic treaty organization are gathering in london on the 70th anniversary of the alliance. but this meeting is no party. the trump administration has already announced major cuts to its funding for nato, and that leaves many leaders worried about how committed the u.s. is to this military alliance. i want to bring in will tanner. he is the director of the think tank onward, and he is former adviser to prime minister theresa may. thank y...