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Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has announced she will stand down at next year’s Holyrood election. In a letter to First Minister John Swinney, the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP said she did not “wish to seek re-election and miss any more of the precious early years of family life”. Ms Forbes is expected…
Growth figures for the second quarter of the year have something for everyone. A better-than-expected outturn of 0.3% over three months, helped by a healthy 0.4% bounce in June, put a little spring in the chancellor’s step on the long road to the autumn budget. For her critics, meanwhile, any slowdown from the 0.7% recorded…
Citroen has been told to improve its “chaotic” and “shameful” recall over a potentially fatal airbag safety fault.Β Consumer champion Which? wants the government to intervene if Stellantis, the car brand’s parent company, does not improve the process for fixing the fault and offering customers compensation. Read all the latest Money news here A “stop-drive”…
BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is backing a controversial bid by the metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta to retain control of his faltering UK steel empire. Sky News has learnt that executives at BlackRock have authorised the issuance of a financing support letter which could enable Mr Gupta to continue to exert a grip on…
Bailey Zimmerman bounds into a conference room at his managerβs office in Beverly Hills with the puppyish enthusiasm of someone even younger than he is. At 25, Zimmerman has already scored four No. 1 country-radio hits β including βRock and a Hard Placeβ and the namesake track from his double-platinum 2023 debut, βReligiously. The Albumβ…
A hostile environment era deportation policy for criminals is being expanded by the Labour government as it continues its migration crackdown. The government wants to go further in extraditing foreign offenders before they have a chance to appeal by including more countries in the existing scheme. Offenders that have a human right appeal rejected will…
Robert Wilson, a leader in avant-garde theater who collaborated with Philip Glass, David Byrne and Lady Gaga over his six-decade career, has died. He was 83. The βEinstein on the Beachβ director died Thursday at his home in Water Mill, N.Y., after a βbrief but acute illness,β according to his website. βWhile facing his diagnosis…
2026 is five months away, but already, battle lines are being drawn for elections across the country. The Senedd (Welsh parliament) will be electing new members, along with council elections in various parts of England, including London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, and Bradford. Electoral Dysfunction listener Marianne sent in a question to the podcast about one…
Yvette Cooper has defended the arrest of more than 500 people for holding signs supporting Palestine Action. The home secretary said protesters over the weekend may have been objecting to the group being proscribed as a terror group because they “don’t know the full nature of this organisation”. Ms Cooper said that could be due…
This is Sudan Archivesβ allow-me-to-reintroduce myself era, a reappraisal after drastic personal overhaul, one that refuses to exploit upheaval for material. Sudan, whose birth name is Brittney Denise Parks, is one of the rare souls who remains real in the spotlight and behind the curtain, disarmingly authentic. Her resultant style, of both dress and music,…
