[ad_1] (Bloomberg Opinion) — Which UK political party threatens to decimate the civil service, slash welfare payments for the disabled, crack down on independent regulators and take a chainsaw to overseas aid to pay for more guns and bombs?Ā The Tories in their worst Donald Trump mode? The wild radicals of the populist Reform UK…
[ad_1] (Bloomberg Opinion) — Flush from a landslide election victory in 1997, the first act of Tony Blairās Labour government was to grant operational independence to the Bank of England. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown followed that up by removing a generous tax credit on dividend income whose prime beneficiaries wereĀ pension funds.Neither change meant…
[ad_1] Since 2021, the government of Japan, a hard-working nation, has supported a shorter workweek. At least 54 ādeaths from overwork,” including heart attacks, occur in Japan annually. According to Dutch author and journalist Rutger Bregmanās 2016 article in The Guardian, titled āThe solution to (nearly) everything: working less,ā cutting back on work hours will…
[ad_1] Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves kicked off a two-day China visit Saturday, a landmark exchange highlighting the Labour governmentās efforts to stay focused on long-term plans to get the British economy growing again even as fiscal concerns mount back home. Reeves, who had faced calls from Britainās main opposition parties to cancel the…
