The bodies, regularly created and axed by politicians, can help ministers demonstrate priorities and avoid blameKeir Starmer will this week set out plans to cut some quangos to reduce red tape and a bloated state, helping with economic growth. Politici...
Kerala is providing lessons on how not to be scammed by employment agencies as US and UK step up immigration raidsOn a warm February morning, Devika, 24, sits with more than 60 classmates in the city of Kochi, in Kerala, southern India, learning how to...
The company’s latest Loud & Clear report – a relatively transparent look into a closed-off industry – shows just how skewed financial success is in musicSince 2021, Spotify has published its Loud & Clear report, corralling data points to show h...
Campaigners say introduction of feasibility test in England and Wales over bathing status is ‘snub to communities’Rivers are unlikely to be granted the protections of bathing water status under the government’s changes to the system, campaigners have s...
The release of economic data was moved to 7am in 2020, and research has suggested that if the time was reverted, the ONS website could crashThe UK’s embattled statistics agency cannot reverse a pandemic-era decision to release official data on the stat...
This Drabble adaptation about a PhD student who gets pregnant is kitchen-sinky but without humour or even awareness. It’s an interesting curioWaris Hussein’s earnest 1969 movie, adapted by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, is a London-...