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The EU is making overtures for a post-Brexit defence collaboration with the UK – but London isn't listening

Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, has suggested that the time is now right for the UK and EU to sign a treaty on defence and foreign policy cooperation.

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023

How the work of Adam Smith could help solve the UK skills gap

Tackling the UK’s productivity problem will require long-term public investment in quality education aimed at closing the skills gap and boosting equality – a plan the 18th-century economist Adam Smith would certainly have agreed with.

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023

Infanticide: vulnerable mothers who kill their babies can be granted leniency – so why is this historic law being rejected in favour of harsher punishment?

Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed not to have known she was pregnant, and no one at her school or within her family had noticed her condition. She was 15 years old.

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023

Major lenders poised to reduce some mortgage rates

Nationwide Building Society, HSBC UK and TSB are expected to cut some home loan rates from Wednesday.

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2023

Wilko is the latest shop to be edged out by competition but it doesn't have to mean the end for the budget retailer

By selling pick ‘n’ mix, stationery, garden tools and bird boxes, Wilko has spent the last 90 years transforming from a one-store business into one of the UK’s major budget retail players. It now has around 400 stores, but it has also become the latest high street shop to face…

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023

UK workers: are you struggling to get the hours you’d like to work?

We want to hear from “underemployed” workers who are not getting as much work as they’d like

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2023

New UK airline says its passengers will ‘feel like a million dollars’

Global Airlines is aiming to begin operating flights between London and New York by the middle of 2024

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2023

UK Electoral Commission apologises to voters following two-year cyberattack

Hackers had access to voter names, addresses, and email addresses of anyone who was registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022, as well as overseas voters

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2023

UK students: do you plan to live at home during university?

We want to speak to students who are living at home this year amid rising costs, as well as about other changes they are making to save money

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2023

UK data watchdog monitoring Snapchat over underage users

The UK’s data regulator is looking at Snapchat’s ability to remove underage users from its platform amid concerns raised over its safeguarding efforts for younger users.

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2023