2 h. ago Unemployment, inflation and GDP growth will be worse this year than projected, budget office says

The Congressional Budget Office has released new economic projections, indicating that unemployment, inflation and overall growth will worsen in 2025 before improving over the next year

Economics

4 d. ago Best desk chairs under £200 to fix up your home office on a budget

Do you have a hunch that it might be time to get a new desk chair for your home office?

Society

5 d. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

Events

8 d. ago Met’s axing of safer school officers ‘catastrophic’, says ‘crushed’ south London headteacher

Jessica West sent welfare staff to a knife suspect pupil’s home because Scotland Yard stopped sharing information

Society

9 d. ago Why is the next Budget in late November and what could it mean for your money?

Now that the date is announced, the Office for Budget Responsibility can begin to assess the UK's financial health and how much headroom Reeves has to work with.

Economics

9 d. ago Economy ‘not working well enough’, says Reeves as she sets November 26 Budget

There are concerns that the Chancellor will be forced to hike taxes as she seeks to plug a black hole in the nation’s finances.

Economics

2 w. ago Canary Islands and Majorca react to Ryanair's plans to cut Spain flights

The budget airline will officially announce plans to cut nearly one million seats in Spain next week

Politics

2 w. ago Reeves's tax raids are 'doing as much damage to hospitality sector as Covid lockdowns'

Some 89,000 jobs have been axed in restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels since Rachel Reeves' Budget last October, according to analysis of official figures by UK Hospitality.

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3 w. ago Tariff revenue will cut US deficits by $4tn, fiscal watchdog says

Congressional Budget Office estimate offsets concerns about fiscal effects of Donald Trump’s tax bill

Economics

3 w. ago FTSE ends above 9,300 for first time amid brighter PMI print

UK public sector borrowing was also better than expected last month, although the data is unlikely to end talk of tax rises in the autumn budget.

Politics

3 w. ago Gabbard slashing intelligence office workforce by 40%, cutting budget by more than $700 million

The Office of National Intelligence says it will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually

Economics

4 w. ago Trump’s controversial $250 visa fee could cost the US economy $11 billion as tourists stay away, research finds

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the “visa integrity fee” would bring in more than $27 billion over a decade

Economics

4 w. ago Chancellor Rachel Reeves confronted over Budget tax rises as new figures released

Chancellor Rachel Reeves declined to be drawn on any tax hikes ahead of the autumn Budget amid reports officials are looking at changes to inheritance taxes

Economics