For starters, the research shows that opposition to onshore wind among Conservative voters does not exist to the extent that some party members believe it does. On the contrary, a recent poll shows that there is broad support not only for more wind power, but more broadly for renewable energy. In a survey conducted by …
Just seven weeks later, the Bankman-Fried crypto exchange is now on the brink of ruin, in the midst of what its investors call “a liquidity crunch.” Faced with a vast financial black hole and tattered bailout talks, FTX and sister trading firm Alameda Research are set to go bankrupt, taking the vast majority of the …
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The Bank of England likes to pretend it had no part in the mess – but its failure to act more decisively on interest rates while sticking to quantitative easing paved the way one last hurray. Yet no one can say that the same institutions that have been complicit in the extraordinary boom of the …
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Anointing you the guardian of free speech is one thing. Living up to it is something else entirely, as Elon Musk is quickly discovering. It’s been a week since the Tesla mogul took over Twitter and it already looks like everything is in danger of falling apart. After firing the entire board — a hasty …
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From a standstill around three years ago, Openreach’s comprehensive fiber network now reaches 9 million homes and businesses across the UK, while the pace of engineering is set to increase from 2.6 million locals last year to over 3 million this year, and again in 2023. . But here’s what the CWU doesn’t want its …
It’s debatable whether van Beurden was really advocating for higher taxes on the industry or just growing more aware of the shifting political winds. Either way, the result is the same: an open invitation for fiercer repression and an unabashed populist fight from a US president whose approval rating is down to just 40%. “Last …
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Even if he wants to, the shadow of the Woodford debacle is impossible to escape. The fund’s reliance on backing Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the UK’s largest investment supermarkets, was clear from the outset. When it was suddenly shut down to prevent catastrophic takeovers, nearly 300,000 Hargreaves clients were trapped in a total of six …
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Sometimes the impression is that the recent wave of damaging strikes, not only at the Royal Mail but also at BT, the country’s railways, ports and other vital sectors of the economy, have been more motivated by the desire of the far left union barons to score points against a conservative government than a duty …
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