Never mind the Budget, let’s talk bins. Over the years, this column has probably received more complaints about crazy rubbish collection and recycling schemes than any of life’s other officially imposed irritations. Council jobsworths compete with each other to work…
What a cowed people so many of us have become, demoralised and incurious. We perk up gratefully at state spending aimed in our direction, but don’t stop to ask where the money is coming from. We cheer rises in the…
The Budget on Wednesday has been dismissed as a snoozefest that ducked the enormous problems facing this country. So it was. But the measures announced by John Healey at the command of our unelected Prime Minister were also sly. He…
The morning after a Budget, Chancellors used to tour Westminster’s broadcasting studios. John Healey broke with that custom and recorded his ‘morning-after’ interviews at teatime on Wednesday. They were broadcast some 15 hours later. Given Mr Healey’s activities in the Two…
By TOM COTTERILL, DEPUTY DEFENCE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITOR Backlash over John Healey's Budget intensified yesterday following claims he was facing an £11billion 'black hole' in his defence spending plans. The Chancellor vowed to spend 3 per cent of GDP on defence…
Full credit to Andy Burnham for keeping a straight face yesterday as he claimed to be working ‘flat out’ to reduce the benefits bill. Even Labour diehards must realise that nothing could be further from the truth. If it wasn’t…
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR and HARRIET LINE, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR The Chancellor triggered chaos in Whitehall after suggesting the runaway benefits bill would be cut before the next election in 'a Labour way'. Within hours, the Treasury was trying…
By UN NEWS CENTRE An estimated 66.5 million domestic workers – representing more than four out of five domestic workers worldwide – were informally employed in 2025, a new report by the UN’s labour organisation has found. This makes them more than twice as…
The legislature is scheduled to sit until Dec. 10 but lawmakers will have only 23 days to debate and pass legislation before they leave again. TORONTO — MPPs are back at Queen’s Park after a five-month break but won’t be there for long,…
Five key takeaways from Ontario's fall economic statement, a kind of mini-budget tabled Thursday in the provincial legislature TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government tabled its fall economic statement Thursday, a kind of mini-budget that updates its spending and the…
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