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Sunak boasts of diverting money from ‘deprived urban areas’ in unearthed clip

RISHI Sunak has boasted that he will undo funding given to “deprived urban areas”, redirecting these to wealthy towns in a recently uncovered…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 5, 2022

TechScape: I’m no longer making predictions about cryptocurrency. Here’s why

If you’d bought or sold bitcoin every time I wrote about it over the last decade, how much would you have made? Let’s do the maths

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2022

Inside 'world's most exclusive address' in UK where luxurious £135m flats lay empty

The building was initially hailed as 'the beginning of a new era of trickle-down economics' which would draw the ultra-rich into London where they would spend money and create much-needed jobs and wealth

Daily Mirror · Jul 31, 2022

Can we separate the art from the artist? Sexual abuse allegations against Nagarjun revive the old debate

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…

Newslaundry · Jan 18, 2020