3 d. ago Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politiciansOn 13 November 1968, a 35-year-old Labour politician got to his feet in the House of Commons and had a go at the ranks of Conservative members who faced him. Six or so months after Enoch Powell had delivered his infamously racist “rivers of blood” speech in Birmingham, David Winnick – who was then the MP for Croydon South – had decided to attack the Tory fashion for bemoaning immigration to the UK from such countries as India and Pakistan and expressing faux sympathy with deprived communities in British cities. “Many of those who act as the champions of the white person against immigrants,” he said, “have not in the past gone out of their way to defend the interests of the white working class.”As the Economist journalist Joel Budd points out in this nuanced, enlightening book about the people and places Winnick was referring to, this ...

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7 d. ago After three days of trying everything to save my baby, I finally turned off his life support. What happened next shocked everyone: LARA GIBSON

'Your son isn't going to live.' The worst words a parent can hear, and delivered by our two-month-old baby's consultant with an unblinking, eye-to-eye stare. And yet...

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8 d. ago Cult bag costs up to £470 and can take 3 months to be delivered

The Nantucket bag from Belgium-based brand Dragon Diffusion is loved by influencers, but it can be hard to get hold of. Now there's a rival on the high street with a much cheaper price tag.

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2 w. ago New car sales accelerate 12.4% with record volume of EV deliveries

Industry body the SMMT said 357,103 new passenger cars were registered in the UK in March. That's 39,317 more than were delivered in the same month last year.

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2 w. ago How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me | Shaf Hussain

Our work is dangerous and the pay only gets worse, while the CEO has just sold £15m in shares – we deserve betterShaf Hussain is a Deliveroo rider and chair of the couriers branch of the IWGB unionIt’s taken Deliveroo more than a decade to do it, but this month, the company made an annual profit for the first time. This might come as a surprise. If you live in London, you probably see one of the 15,000 or so couriers like me zooming past you several times a day. And with Covid triggering a takeaway boom five years ago, you’d reasonably assume that these apps are raking it in.But while companies such as Deliveroo and Uber have been pumped full of cash by investors, many have been losing money year after year, as they tried to squeeze competition out of the market. Twelve years into its existence, Deliveroo has finally made good on the promise to its investors and turned into a moneymaker, recording a £3m profit.Shaf Hussain is a Deliveroo rider and chair of the couriers branch of the...

Economics

3 w. ago Takeaway fans will spend an astonishing amount over their lifetime

A poll of 2,000 adults found that those who enjoy ordering a takeaway spend over £60 a month on getting food delivered

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3 w. ago Brits' hopes of interest rate cuts are boosted as inflation eases to 2.8%

UK inflation eased by more than expected last month to 2.8 per cent, new official figures show, delivering a boost to Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her spring statement.

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