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Lucy Burton Employment Editor |
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James Warrington Media and Telecoms Editor |
Andy Burnham has been open about his plans to take Britain back to the 1970s, promising to roll back Thatcher-era deregulation, bring utilities back into public ownership and roll out a mass social housing programme.
Now, the Prime Minister has another plan up his sleeve for winding back the clock: restoring the power of Britain’s trade unions.
New rules coming into effect at the end of this month will hand unions an automatic right to access workplaces. Union leaders, who can’t believe their luck, are plotting a charm offensive to win over a new generation of young tech workers and restore the labour movement to its former glory.
However, company bosses are on the defensive amid fears that the rules are a “Trojan horse” for power-hungry unions to bring businesses to a standstill and stifle Britain’s lacklustre economic growth.
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Neil McCormick Chief Music Critic |
Our Music of the Decades series is coming to a bittersweet end, as we contemplate the most recent decade in pop’s turbulent, thrilling, emotional and often ridiculous history: the 2010s.
If you were young in the last decade, there was an absolute cornucopia of delights on offer, with more music being released every day than at any previous time in history, then chopped up and pushed out as TikTok memes and Instagram posts.
For many older listeners, it has been a decade without a centre, in which the biggest hits in the world can go blithely unnoticed beyond their target markets. Never mind new genres like K-pop, trap, drill and EDM, how many times have you heard someone say “Well, of course I know who Taylor Swift is, but I honestly wouldn’t recognise one of her songs”?
Today, I have ventured into the modern hit parade to assess how the songs of a new brand of solo superstars including Adele, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga and, indeed, Taylor Swift measure up to classics of the past.
Come and join the conversation and let us know what you think about today’s pop music – one more time, with feeling.
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Janet Daley During the Cold War we knew what we were about. Our very triumph is what makes us so vulnerable to infiltration and hostile actors Continue reading ➤
Ken Fisher I’ll bet my bottom dollar stocks are about to rally Continue reading ➤
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FBI agents arrested an OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia last week who was accused of bugging a meeting room by concealing a hidden microphone behind a TV. Spies once sought to infiltrate aerospace companies and munitions factories, seeking to find the blueprints to the next generation of their enemy’s weapons. Now, their targets include the companies at the forefront of developing AI. Continue reading ➤ |
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As the amount of money in football has mushroomed, and the image of the game has transformed, it was inevitable that the nature of professional players would change too, writes Tim Wigmore. A growing number of privately educated players, including those paying full fees, are breaking into the professional game. Could independently educated footballers become as common as privately educated cricketers or rugby players? “It definitely is heading in that direction,” one coach told me. “There are more coming.” Continue reading ➤ |
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Everyone thought I had a wonderful husband, writes Ros Barber. If only they knew what happened behind closed doors. I was living in fear, my health was falling apart and I had convinced myself this was simply a bad marriage. Then, one evening, he calmly revealed just how far he was prepared to go... Continue reading ➤ |
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Needing a new car, I was intrigued by the growing number of Jaecoo SUVs that look awfully similar to our very own Range Rover, writes Sophia Money-Coutts. Although it looks posh, could the much cheaper Chinese car possibly compare with Britain’s finest in terms of quality, comfort and engineering? Continue reading ➤ |
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England packs considerable diversity into its relatively modest proportions. There’s all sorts of scenery, from wild coast to formidable fells, rolling hills to meandering rivers, and it is best explored on foot. British travel expert Sarah Baxter has chosen 48 of England’s finest walks – one for every county in the land. Continue reading ➤ • With decades of experience treating adults with ADHD, Prof Philip Asherson explains why accurate diagnosis matters – and how the right treatment can transform lives.
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School’s out!
For families that love to travel, a two-week October half-term is a gift.
If your children’s school is off this week and next, you may already be reading this poolside in the Canary Islands.
A flight from Liverpool to Tenerife departing yesterday for seven days was available for under £180 return, one-third of the price for an identical trip starting next weekend.
Long-haul journeys that would be irresponsible for just a week are viable for a fortnight.
Yet escaping across the Atlantic or to the tropics is not an option for everyone. Many families will be content for a few days away.
The perennial best deal is on DFDS from Newhaven in East Sussex to Dieppe in Normandy.
Sailing out on Monday morning, Oct 26, and back on the evening of Wednesday, Oct 28, a family of four in a car pay just £263 return thanks to generous subsidies from the French government. Bon voyage.
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Sonia Sinclair, the former Lady Melchett, who has died aged 100, was a famous giver of parties at which politicians and sundry royals mingled with writers, artists and theatrical movers and shakers. Tall and graceful, with perfect manners and a gift of intimacy, she took a relaxed attitude to guest misbehaviour.
Her rules for throwing the perfect party were simple. Hosts should always be there to welcome their guests – “I have been at parties where I have never seen the host at all”; husbands should immediately be separated from wives, and the host must stay sober “until things are running smoothly”.
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1921: Charles Strite is granted a US patent for his invention: the automatic pop-up toaster
1922: British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded, later known as British Broadcasting Corporation
1931: Gangster Al Capone is convicted on five of the 23 counts of tax evasion against him, later fined $50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in prison (see how we covered the story in the following day’s paper below)
1961: The Museum of Modern Art in New York displays Henri Matisse’s picture Le Bateau upside down, and it takes 47 days and 116,000 visitors before someone notices
Birthdays: Zohran Mamdani (35), Lindsey Vonn (42), Rhod Gilbert (58), Sir Jim Ratcliffe (74)
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Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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