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Whitehall's indifference to the defence and national security implications of private equity and overseas bids in Britain's aerospace and engineering sector is disturbing.  In spite of a heavily redacted national security report on the sale of aerospace group Cobham to Advent, warning of its importance to UK defences, it was sold off with few safeguards.  At the time of the proposed 2012 merger of the UK's defence industry leader BAE with Europe's Airbus it took an intervention from Angela Merkel, concerned about production in Germany, to scupper the transaction while Britain sat on its han...

Boris Johnson has been forced to put off announcing his social care reforms until the autumn after he failed to reach agreement with leading ministers. He was understood be considering a 1p-in-the-pound increase in National Insurance (NI) contributions to fund his long-awaited plans. But critics said such a plan would hit the low-paid and would spare even well-off pensioners – including those still working – from having to contribute anything to the cost of the new care system. The plans are understood to include measures to integrate the NHS better with the local-authority-run social car...

Expat supporters from Dubai, Switzerland, Spain, Prague and France were among the first arrivals in the city England will take on Andriy Shevchenko's Ukraine at Stadio Olympico in Rome, but Italy remains on amber list Regulations in Italy mean fans have needed to have spent five days in quarantine and bring back negative test This means those in the stand will either be those who call Italy their new home, or who have travelled from EU It comes amid fear football fans will drink pubs and stores dry because of possible beer shortages at weekend

Chief foreign correspondent of the Guardian in the 1960s, features editor and chief systems editor of the paper in the 80s

There is a spectre stalking the land. It is the spectre of middle-aged men worrying about inflation. Actually, it might be more correct to say it’s the spectre of middle-aged columnists exaggerating their worries about inflation for the sake of copy, but I think we can agree it is probably for the best for several reasons if I Don’t Go There. Anyway, spectre number one: Peter