Category: Analysis

The air is suddenly full of talk about supermarket price wars. Some £4.4bn was wiped from the stock market valuations of Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer on Monday following comments from…

The excitement was palpable. Billed as the “biggest policy renewal programme in 50 years”; 136 days since becoming Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch’s big policy pitch. Politics latest: Billions shaved off welfare bill…

Perhaps it was just an accident of scheduling that meant Butch and Suni were brought back to Earth on a SpaceX capsule called Freedom. The test pilots were supposed to have just…

Labour was the party that created the welfare state. Now it is intent on cutting it back. And in Liz Kendall, the government has found a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly…

The tone has changed totally. It’s a remarkable turnaround from the Oval Office meltdown to the perfect phone call. President Trump is wholly transactional. His desire for give and take far outweighs…

The Bank’s decision to hold rates did not come as a surprise but the vote was more unified than expected. It suggests concerns about inflation are niggling away at policymakers, even though…

The very idea that the government is brainstorming proposals to deport failed asylum seekers to third countries, with its echoes of the controversial Rwanda plan, will send alarm bells clanging for many…

In Birmingham, they say the rats are as big as cats. Nine weeks into the bin strike that has bedevilled the city, the unions this week announced it would be indefinite without…

Sudan’s military operations have pointed towards a specific target for several weeks: reclaim the Republican Palace from their entrenched enemy, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), after close to two years of war….

In recent months, the chancellor has become a lightning rod for criticism. She been accused of ushering in a new era of austerity and channelling George Osborne with governments cuts to welfare,…