The Scottish National Party manifesto includes a promise that their MPs will call for a statutory social tariff for energy (and other utilities). This focus on social tariffs in public debate is welcome, but it…
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By Deep Kaushik Vakil and Robert Harvey LONDON (Reuters) -Oil futures hit a seven-week high on Thursday as fresh data on a cooling U.S. jobs market added to hopes that the Federal Reserve could still…
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The Conservatives have been chipping away at national insurance, and say they want to abolish it altogether for the self-employed. But national insurance has traditionally been the way to build up a state pension –…
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Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made of. The oldest rocks in Australia, which are some…
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By Robert Harvey LONDON (Reuters) – Global fossil fuel consumption and energy emissions hit all-time highs in 2023, even as fossil fuels’ share of the global energy mix decreased slightly on the year, the industry’s…
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In a 2-1 vote on June 3, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit held that the Fearless Foundation – the charitable arm of the Fearless Fund venture capital…
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By now, all of us have heard and read a lot about artificial intelligence (AI). You’ve likely used some of the countless AI tools that are becoming available. For some, AI feels like a magic…
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(Corrects paragraph 8 to read on Thursday, not at 1500 GMT) By Laila Kearney (Reuters) -Oil rose slightly in early trade on Wednesday as concern over escalating conflict in Europe and the Middle East offset…
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Aiming to reclaim his party’s role as the builders of “property-owning democracy”, Rishi Sunak used the Conservative manifesto launch to praise his predecessor Harold Macmillan. As Winston Churchill’s housing minister in the 1950s, Macmillan first…
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Eleven central bank communications teams have become less involved in key policy-making over the past four years, data from Central Banking Communications Benchmarks spanning from 2021 to 2024 suggests. In this year’s benchmark, 33 communications…
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