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Szu Ping Chan Economics Editor |
When Labour swept to power in 2024, they promised to be unashamedly pro-business and cut red tape.
Instead, once in government, they imposed back-to-back tax raids alongside introducing a slew of new workers’ rights that employers warn will undermine Britain’s flexible jobs market.
Two years on, Andy Burnham has promised to do things differently. The new Prime Minister once again pledged a pro-growth agenda, following through with a cut to business rates for hospitality firms in his first week in office.
It was a welcome move.
However, with the Budget just days away, bosses are fearful that this government is looking just like the last.
John Healey, the Chancellor, is expected to launch a fresh tax raid on banks, and promised help for entrepreneurs is expected to come with the caveat that those selling up will face a higher tax bill.
Patience is wearing thin, with City veterans warning that higher bank taxes would hit jobs and growth across Britain.
“This Government has created a hostile environment for business from day one,” said an executive at one top business group.
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Neil McCormick Chief Music Critic |
Pop music has been the soundtrack to our tumultuous times, an inescapable medley of ever-shifting beats and melodies, snappy hooks and pithy lyrics encapsulating and illuminating life on Earth.
I have been presiding over The Telegraph’s Music of the Decades series, trying to identify the greatest songs of each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s, and it is from that – and many conversations in the comments section with Telegraph readers – that I am daring to compile an all-time top 50.
I really did throw everything up in the air, sift and juggle and rearrange, to try to come up with something definitive.
Art is a very personal thing, and each of us will have our own ideas about the songs that hit us hardest. I have put a lot of love and care into this, with the ideal of creating a list of 50 incredible records representing the span of the modern pop era.
So, these are my 50 greatest songs of all time. Come and sing and dance, shout and argue, make discoveries, lament omissions and celebrate the surely incontestable fact that whatever you think about my choices, we have all been living through a golden age of song.
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We know music is deeply personal, so our list won’t resonate with everyone. We want to involve you, our readers. Let us know what you think is the best song ever and, in one sentence, tell us why. Email us here with your submissions, and let us know if you are happy for us to feature your answers in a future edition of this newsletter. |
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Simon Heffer Britain is very different from its neighbour across the Channel, but the ongoing unrest is a lesson Continue reading ➤
Janet Daley Free market economics has made World War III vanishingly unlikely Continue reading ➤
Daniel Hannan Mr Healey, my alternative Budget would cut the deficit without raising taxes Continue reading ➤ |
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When he lands in the Caribbean for a major Commonwealth summit, the King will be greeted by calls for Britain to pay £15tn in slave trade reparations, writes Hannah Furness, Royal Editor. Campaigners have made it clear that they want the King to formally apologise for transatlantic slavery. As far as we know, that isn’t going to happen. “The King has been a global diplomat for all his adult life,” one source told me. “This, in its most literal sense, is what he was born to do.”
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Sir Graeme Lamb, the former SAS director, spent 35 years dealing in violence. Yet amid fierce debate about battlefield conduct, he refuses to offer special pleading for elite soldiers. Instead, the retired general delivers an uncompromising warning about who truly bears the moral burden of bloodshed. Continue reading ➤ |
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Councils seeing cuts to ‘core spending power’ minus council tax |
Andy Burnham has been accused of launching “an attack on rural Britain” over council funding cuts. Analysis by The Telegraph shows that Labour changes to grant funding will result in councils in the vales and shires having their budgets cut by £61m during the next three years, while urban areas will experience an uplift of £2.9bn. With rural councils considering council tax rises and cuts to bus timetables, councillors have warned that “villages could die” as a result. Continue reading ➤ |
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Half a century ago, thousands of Britons woke up and did something highly unusual for that era. They turned on BBC Radio 2 to listen to live, uninterrupted coverage of the denouement of the Formula One world championship from a rain-soaked Fuji. James Hunt was about to be crowned world champion after a season of relentless drama. With his blond tousled hair and notorious thirst for women and booze, the British icon changed the sport forever. Continue reading ➤ |
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The clocks going back may be good news for your Sunday – an extra hour in bed – but there is growing evidence that the biannual seesaw between standard time in autumn and daylight saving in the spring is negatively affecting our health. Dr Jeffrey Kelu, a circadian rhythms expert, reveals how it affects weight, mood and even our longevity.
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Mexico’s Day of the Dead is a celebration of life |
When night arrives early, as it does from today, Hallowe’en is always close. This winter, you may choose to embrace the darkness.
As I have written in my travel newsletter today, there are new flights from a range of British airports to the Icelandic capital, Reykjavík, and Tromsø, deep in the Norwegian Arctic. Both locations offer the chance to view the Northern Lights.
I prefer, though, to welcome the winter from a more southerly location. As I write, I am trekking through the Himalayan foothills in northwest Sikkim. The region is about the same distance from the equator as the Canary Islands, but rather quieter than Tenerife during the main half-term week.
Another nation best explored at the start of November is Mexico. The festival of the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebrates past lives with a colourful cacophony in great cities including Mexico City and Oaxaca.
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Sir Donald Insall, who has died aged 100, was the doyen of conservation architects; he did much to shape the scope and standing of his speciality through his work restoring many of Britain’s most historic buildings.
These included stately homes and cathedrals, public monuments and institutional sites – the Palace of Westminster and colleges at Oxford and Cambridge – as well as Windsor Castle, the renewal of which he co-ordinated after its fabric was gravely damaged by fire in 1992.
His philosophy was more sophisticated than merely freezing buildings in time.
“Preservation,” he said, “is what you do to marmalade.”
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1976 | Elizabeth II officially opens the Royal National Theatre on the South Bank (see the photograph, below, from the opening on our front page the following day)
1995 | Sir Cliff Richard receives his knighthood from Elizabeth II, the first pop star to be knighted specifically for music
2012 | The double-dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1 per cent in GDP in the third quarter of 2012, with help from the London Olympic Games
2021 | Elon Musk makes a record $25bn in one day, pushing his estimated worth to $255.2bn and making him the richest person ever
Birthdays: Rylan Clark (38), Katy Perry (42), David Furnish (64)
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Yesterday’s Panagram was GLANDULAR. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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