A wish list for Andy Burnham: stop funding failure, fund prevention
Prime Minister, congratulations. You arrive in Downing Street with more than a million young people in the UK not in education, employment or training. The...
Heathrow to central London in 8 minutes as Virgin signs air taxi deal
An eight-minute hop from Heathrow to central London and a quarter of an hour from Manchester Airport to Leeds. That is the pitch Virgin Atlantic...
MPs: scrap employer NI for under-25s or lose a generation
Employers should pay no National Insurance on any worker under 25, MPs have told the government, after hearing “overwhelming evidence” that the current regime is...
More jets, less money: Farnborough day two value falls 34 per cent
Britain’s aerospace supply chain took £2.6 billion of fresh work out of a single day at Farnborough this week, even as the headline value of...
Six in ten firms cut R&D spending after HMRC fraud crackdown
The reforms designed to clean up Britain’s £8 billion research and development tax credit scheme have worked rather too well. More than six in ten...
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In the early nineties I used to go to the dogs at Walthamstow with a man called Terry, who sold tips in brown envelopes for...