Trying to be iron and quicksilver at the same time.
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With an ageing population, pandemic recovery and climate emergency in the in-tray, social care is not the only thing the chancellor has to finance.
Varane arrives at Manchester United.
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Clubs should not ignore the human side of buying and selling players.
Pump-primer in chief, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
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Interest rates, inflation and huge debts will all be up for debate.
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A great ambience requires cooperation and planning according to new research.
Welcome to the world of digital property.
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There’s a difference between owning property and owning the copyright in that property.
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Shortages of chicken at Nando’s are due to disruptions in supply, rather than demand.
‘Who are you calling pessimistic?’
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Superior optimism is often given as the reason why men earn more than women.
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It could push up prices and pay.
In the years after the second world war, credit was in short supply.
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Consumer spending fuelled by credit cards and bank loans has become central to economic growth, but it wasn’t always.
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Not only is much of the language associated with job-seeking religious but so are the ways in which people approach success and failure in the process.
Ningbo-Zhousan: China’s second biggest port is subject to severe delays because of COVID.
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Pandemic chaos has driven the cost of shipping through the roof.
Gower salt marsh farmer and his flock.
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Evidence shows protecting name of products associated with specific area brings community benefits.
Fleeced?
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The basic payments scheme that sustains 90% of farmers will be gone by 2028, but the reductions are biting already.
Andrey Andreyev
At the bottom of our carbon fears is a big black problem.
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Clarity and care for the environment should be priorities.
Even before the Taliban broke through, opium poppy cultivation was surging.
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Having taken charge of multiple vital border trading posts, the Taliban is now increasingly in control of the Afghan drug trade.
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It’s all about winning in 2022.
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Amazon is offering an incentive to pay with our palm prints. Why is it so difficult to make decisions about biometric privacy?
‘Who says I can’t?’
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No sooner has he returned from space than the Virgin king is making noises about putting his airline on the stock market.
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Companies should focus on fair pay and workers’ rights, our survey suggests.
A tale of two transfers.
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While Grealish has made an easy £100 million move to Manchester City, Kane is still playing chicken with Spurs.
Supermarket chain Morrisons is just one of many bidding targets.
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After sitting on the sidelines in 2020, US private equity is moving in for the kill.
The lineup of judges on The X Factor changed almost as frequently as the cast.
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After 17 years, The X Factor is no more, but its success gives us an insight into the changing recording industry.
Some young employees worry that not having the daily interactions of pre-pandemic office life will impede their career advancement.
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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned that young people’s career chances could suffer without returning to the office. But lockdown has bigger lessons for workplaces.
Thousands of aircraft were grounded during the pandemic. Now research is showing people might fly less.
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Green jobs are the way to avoid a decade of decline for towns dependent on airport employment.