If you don’t care about workers, a vicious downward cycle works – as long as you can get them. Then one day, you can’tIn the mid-noughties, I was economics producer at the BBC, working with the then economics editor, Evan Davis. He had just begun prese…
Shell aims to install 50,000 on-street EV charge points by 2025
Oil firm sets out plans to provide a third of Britain’s network needed to hit climate targetsShell has announced its aim to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK over the next four years, in an attempt to provide a th…
Shop prices rise amid driver shortages and Brexit red tape
Retail data shows 0.4% month-on-month increase in August, with 0.6% rise in non-foodUK shop prices rose last month, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium, in a sign that driver shortages and the costs of Brexit-induced red tap…
Afghanistan: MPs to quiz Dominic Raab over ‘worst crisis since Suez’
Foreign secretary faces grilling as Labour says he ‘had 18 months to prepare but was missing in action’Dominic Raab faces a grilling over what has been described as “the biggest failure of foreign policy in a generation” on Wednesday, as the government…
UK republicans take heart from royals’ recent travails
Campaign group Republic believes bad headlines are increasing support for the abolition of the monarchyIt has been another run of weeks in which the royal family’s open sores have been publicised around the world.Prince Andrew was confirmed to be a “pe…
‘Forgotten masters’: auction shines light on India’s overlooked artists
Paintings commissioned by East India Company in 18th and 19th century up for sale at Sotheby’sRemarkable paintings of the flora and fauna of India, including a work once owned by Jackie Kennedy Onassis depicting a stork eating a snail, are to go on sal…
Coronavirus live news: Australia reports over 1,000 new cases; England’s Covid infections are 26 times up on a year ago
Follow all the latest on the Covid-19 pandemic from around the world See all our coronavirus coverage 3.54pm BST In Australia, older people could have to wait months to get a choice of vaccines, despite the technical advisory group on immunisation (Ata…
Prince of Wales charity launches inquiry into ‘cash for access’ claims
Prince’s Foundation investigating claims that individuals could pay £100,000 for dinner with royal heirA charity founded by the Prince of Wales has launched an ethics investigation into “cash for access” claims that middlemen took cuts for setting up d…
‘Super-strict’ London headteacher in running to be social mobility champion
Right-leaning Katharine Birbalsingh criticised ‘chaotic’ state schools at Tory party conference in 2010 A headteacher who rose to public attention by addressing a Conservative conference about some “utterly chaotic” state schools is a frontrunner to be…
Man charged with stabbing two people to death in London
Police charge Lee Peacock with murdering Sharon Pickles and Clinton Ashmore in WestminsterA man has been charged with the murders of two people who were stabbed to death within hours in central London.Lee Peacock, 49, was charged with the murders of Sh…