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Johnson’s brief bounce Andrew Rawnsley’s article demonstrates the short-term nature of contemporary politics (“The bad taste question about Covid that everyone in Westminster is asking”, Comment). What matters to the denizens of Westminster is less good governance than the “bluebird of spring” that will transform their poll ratings. There is no doubt that a successful vaccination programme will do this. People grateful for the vaccine will forget the policy mishaps that led up to this moment. However, this boost will be temporary, as his many other policy failures will have a nega...

Deprived areas see very low take-up of coronavirus testing – and no wonder, say campaigners, when taking time off work can have dire consequences

Finance BOSSES at the UK's top companies have already made more money this week than the average worker in Reading will all year, estimates show. Charity the Equality Trust said the salary gap between bosses and their employees is fuelling a "damagingly high" level of inequality across the UK. The median annual pay of FTSE 100 CEOs in 2019 was £3.6 million (around £941 per hour of their 12-hour days), according to the High Pay Centre. Assuming they start work at 8am, they had already earned a Reading full-time worker's median salary (£33,908 in 2020) by around 8pm on Wednesday, Jan...

Bosses at the UK's top companies have already made more money this week than the average worker in Swindon will all year, estimates show. The Equality Trust charity said the salary gap between bosses and their employees is fuelling a "damagingly high" level of inequality across the UK. The median annual pay of FTSE 100 CEOs in 2019 was £3.6 million, which is around £941 per hour of their 12-hour days, according to the High Pay Centre. Assuming they start work at 8am, they had already earned a Swindon full-time worker's median salary of £31,680 by around 6pm on Wednesday, January 6 ...

BOSSES at the UK's top companies have already made more money this week than the average worker in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will earn all…