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Twitter owner’s net worth reportedly grows to $187bn after precipitous drop in late 2022Elon Musk is once again the world’s richest man after a rally in Tesla’s stock price on Monday boosted the Twitter owner’s net worth by nearly $7bn to $187bn, accor…
New research reveals a 15% pay gap that widens dramatically after women have childrenWomen “work for free for nearly two months” a year, according to fresh analysis which reveals a 15% gender pay gap that widens “dramatically” after women have children…
West Midlands mayor believes it shouldn’t only be up to civil servants in London to make project funding decisionsThe Conservative mayor of the West Midlands has criticised the government’s levelling up policy for being too centralised, and said he cho…
Working group of experts on people of African descent calls for halt on use of joint enterprise and strip search• ‘The law is breaking children’: black people in UK tell UN of daily injusticesA UN body has written to the UK government to express “very …
Exclusive: Treasurer says ‘best way to shift the needle’ is to ‘find out where those challenges are most acute’, and ‘this is something I care deeply about’Australian politics podcastFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our mor…
Thinktank says of advanced economies, only Greece would have lower public and private investmentIf the north of England were a country, it would be second bottom of a league table showing levels of investment in advanced economies, according to a repor…
Nobel-prizewinning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunesJoseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning Keynesian economist, has called for the super-rich to be subjected to taxes as high as 70% to help tackle widening…
Latest updates: Angela Rayner has written to HMRC calling for clarification on the former chancellor’s tax settlementPeter Hain, the Labour former Northern Ireland secretary, has called for an official Norway-style involvement for Sinn Féin and the DUP…
Lawmakers demonstrating outside famous Manhattan apartment building promise to fight to ensure wealthy are fairly taxedLawmakers and activists gathered in the rain on Thursday outside a Manhattan apartment building once dubbed the “Towers of Power” and…
Exclusive: council leaders accuse Rishi Sunak of offering ‘pre-election bribes’ as many deprived areas miss outTory seats have been awarded significantly more money per person from the government’s £4bn levelling up fund than areas with similar levels …