2018 – the return of volatility A trade war, Brexit, US interest rate rises, slowing Chinese growth, a US government shutdown, a dispute over Italy’s budget, the Skripal poisonings, numerous elections – there was plenty to worry about in 2018. A last-minute dive left the US market in negative territory.Sterling continued ...
The only moments in life that count for something are the exceptions. Mondays are Mondays just as Tuesdays blend into every other Tuesday except for the Wednesday that wasn’t a Wednesday because it was the day when, like the title of Joe Heller’s oft-neglected yet brilliant novel, Something Happened. For ...
Rationalist vs Leave theory that exiting the EU means "taking back control".
Multimillionaire heiress Stephanie Scolaro, 26, was given 160 hour community order after she admitted she ordered snake-skin baseball caps and travel bags worth over £17,000 from Indonesia.
Brexit dithering has cost Labour some 150,000 members and £6 million, according to party insiders. The number of paid-up activists now stands at around 385,000 - down from a peak of more 500,000 in 2017 - amid fury at Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit stance, the Sunday Times has claimed. Sinking numbers has hit ...
The campaign by activist collective Led By Donkeys is meant to highlight the predictions made by top politicians in the run up to Brexit.
Brexit has been blamed as one of the deciding factors behind a factory closure in Suffolk with 430 jobs at risk, the East Anglian Daily Times has revealed. Philips Avent will move most of its operations from its factory in Glemsford to Philips’ existing innovation and manufacturing site in Drachten, ...
Faith is a fickle thing in politics, but few of a sound mind could say they have confidence in this Government anymore. In the space of just a month the Conservatives have faced two confidence votes, been found in contempt of parliament for the first time ever and lost a ...
After seeing the shambolic lack of agreement on Brexit in parliament, worried EU figures have started discussing allowing Brexit to be put back until 2020 to let Britain make its mind up. European Union officials had discussed delaying Brexit by three months until this summer, but concerned that this time ...