With under a week to go until the G7 summit begins in the UK on 11 June, over a dozen Democratic members of the House of Representatives have written to President Joe Biden urging him to speak against cuts to foreign aid budgets by fellow G7 nations specifically the UK. The move came a day before British MPs, including some 30 Conservative Party rebels, seek to reverse those
Why the G7 agreement on a global corporate tax rate is a defining moment Joe Biden has halted the “race to the bottom” that has prevailed since the free-market revolution of the 1980s.
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak welcomes US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen. In a major victory for both the Biden administration and the G7, global finance ministers agreed in London today to a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15 per cent. British Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who has pledged to increase the UK rate from 19 per cent to 25 per cent by 2023, called the deal a “historic agreement.” Germany hailed it as “good news for justice and fiscal solidarity.”
The local elections were an unmitigated success for the Conservatives: in summary, a near-repeat of the 2019 general election. But when you drill down into what happened in individual neighbourhoods, Conservative advances in some of England’s most deprived areas appear smaller than in less deprived ones. Neighbourhoods in England are assigned a deprivation score out of 100,
Producing records, for Rostam Batmanglij, “is just about caring”. To him, the often ambiguous role, which can refer to studio management as much as musical direction, involves two main things: starting songs and finishing them. Most often, his help is needed in a track’s final stages. “No matter how a song starts, it’s how it’s finished that becomes important. And if you care
On “Play the Greatest Hits”, two and a half minutes of driving uptempo punk that comes three quarters of the way through Wolf Alice’s new album Blue Weekend, lead singer and guitarist Ellie Rowsell shout-sings: “I don’t look too far forward, I definitely don’t look back.” It’s not designed to be the most profound moment of the album, which elsewhere is soaring and expansive –