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‘This deal doesn’t help’: Europe slams Trump’s plan to buy Russian diesel

Just hours after Trump’s announcement, however, Russian bombs fell on Ukrainian power plants, causing widespread blackouts. Kyiv is bracing for its fifth winter since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February…

The Remnant in the Nightmare

So, the God slot. It wasn’t me that scheduled this talk for eleven o’clock on Sunday morning, and it wasn’t me who christened it the God slot — that was Basil Valentine. So don’t go blaming me if there’s some preaching…

Ex-director who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting leaves council housing role after backlash

It was found that she pushed for a new contractor to carry out the tower's renovation works on a lower budget, which ultimately meant metal cladding was swapped for combustible plastic-filled panels to save money. In…

Berechenbare Risiken – unberechenbare Politik? Warum Deutschland jetzt aus Worten Gesetze machen muss

Dazu gehört auch, dass wir uns ehrlich machen: Die finanzielle Schieflage der Kassen entsteht durch strukturelle Ineffizienzen im System, nicht durch medizinischen Fortschritt. Ganz im Gegenteil: Innovative Medizin ist…

From pace-setter to laggard: Brexit and the British car industry

This is a shortened version of a piece originally published on the author’s blog . In 2016, British factories built 1.7 million cars, more than in any year since 1999. Last year they built 717,371. German output also…

Revealed: The chancellor’s plan to survive the budget

Can he ease the pressure on the public finances without loosening the purse strings? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy test the tightrope Healey is attempting to walk ahead of a major speech to the International Monetary Fund.…

The latest seats up for grabs for wannabe Tory candidates

Trawling through pages upon pages of electoral history for each constituency, looking to see if there are any front runners for each of the seats – its a slog but if anyone is going to do it -it’s us (one person from an…

IFS: budget will be ‘work of fiction’ without clear plan to cover UK’s £35bn spending pressures

As the war in the Middle East rattles the public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the damage from higher inflation meant the chancellor would need to either top up funds for his current government…

David Gauke: My verdict on Tory Party Conference is not, perhaps, what you’re expecting

A few days on from the Conservative Party conference, I am going to say something that many ConHome readers will find appalling about the party’s political strategy. Some will even accuse me of trying to undermine the…

Chris Philp: We aren’t ‘abandoning human rights’ leaving the ECHR but doing what must be done to secure our borders

Last year the slogan of Conference was “Stronger Economy: Stronger Borders”. At CPC the slogan had become “Stronger Economy: Stronger Country”. Giles Dilnot asked Chris Philp if this meant immigration had been last…