8 h. ago Labour misses target for hiring new teachers despite VAT raid on private schools to pay for them

Official figures show that for 2025/26, the Government only recruited 88 per cent of the required 19,270 new secondary school teachers.

Economics

52 h. ago Households on the hook for £203,000 each to cover cost of gold

The cost of gold-plated public sector pensions has ballooned to almost £6trillion this year, while private sector workers face a Budget raid on their retirement saving.

Economics

3 d. ago Why doesn't Chancellor raid public sector pensions instead of always coming after private sector workers? STEVE WEBB replies

Those of us who saved hard risk seeing the rug pulled from under us, being left financially vulnerable. We don't have the luxury of income certainty in retirement

Economics

7 d. ago Teachers threaten to go on STRIKE as Rachel Reeves's Budget sparks fears of school cuts after Government vows to prop up councils struggling with spiralling costs of special needs

The National Education Union (NEU) said it will not accept 'the continued underfunding of our schools' or 'another pay cut'.

Events

7 d. ago Teachers threaten to go on STRIKE as Rachel Reeves' Budget sparks fears of school cuts after Government vows to prop up councils struggling with spiralling costs of special needs

The National Education Union (NEU) said it will not accept 'the continued underfunding of our schools' or 'another pay cut'.

Events

8 d. ago Grinch Rachel Reeves has announced a wave of tax rises in her Grim Reaper Budget

The Chancellor's brutal Budget hikes to fund £30billion will include a mansion tax on expensive homes, 20% VAT slapped on private taxi fares and a £3billion raid on pensions

Economics

8 d. ago Grinch Rachel Reeves clobbers UK with a wave of tax rises in her Grim Reaper Budget

The Chancellor's brutal Budget hikes to fund £30billion will include a mansion tax on expensive homes, 20% VAT slapped on private taxi fares and a £3billion raid on pensions

Economics

1 week ago 'Millionaire mandarins' revealed: the senior civil servants with as much as £2.5 MILLION to look forward to in taxpayer

Britain's top civil servants are in line for taxpayer-funded pension pots worth an average £1.3million, as private sector workers trying to save for retirement face a tax raid in the Budget.

Economics

2 w. ago What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little | Aditya Chakrabortty

Imposing a 1% levy on the super-rich isn’t a policy, it’s pantomime. Tackling inequality in Britain will require much more far-reaching changesBy this time next week you will be digesting the budget, you lucky thing. Yet even before Rachel Reeves has commended a single damn thing to the house, her efforts have been written off as a “shambles”, from a “chaotic” government that is Labour in name alone. Which begs the question: what is the leftwing alternative?Because there is one, on which agreement stretches from Labour backbenchers to many of their opponent MPs and far beyond. Whether you listen to Zack Polanski or Zarah Sultana, the TUC or the YouTubers, they all call for a wealth tax – stinging the rich to pay for schools and hospitals. Who could be against such a thing?Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Economics

2 w. ago VAT: Head teacher accuses Rachel Reeves of 'live experiment' on private school pupils as 9

The head teacher of St Leonards independent school has accused the UK Government of a ‘social experiment’ on children’s education

Society

2 w. ago Heartbroken family pay tribute to 'brave and beautiful' schoolgirl, 17, stabbed to death while 'fighting off intruder who broke into her home'

Lainie Williams, 17, was found fatally wounded at her home in Cefn Fforest, near Blackwood, South Wales, at around 7am on Thursday.

Society