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Andy Burnham vows to ease non-compete clauses

That's a reference to a 1995 European Court of Justice decision that changed how star players are transferred between football clubs. Potential changes to non-compete clauses in workers’ contracts began in 2025 under…

Finance ministers strike market supercop deal despite Brussels’ objections

“We need [the European Securities and Markets Authority] to become an effective supervisor. The current compromise text would not allow for that.” France spearheaded a last-minute push over dinner Thursday to strengthen…

Digested week: Don’t worry about the plague, go and read some Anne Carson | Emma Brockes

Relying on details from the famously open Russian state guaranteed the presence of a certain dark subtext to the tantalisingly short news item. Namely: lab-grown disease cultivated for reasons unknown and with a 100%…

Labour triumphs against Polanski, but the Green threat remains

Labour comfortably held Holborn and St Pancras, with Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali defeating Green leader Zack Polanski in a result that will bring relief to Andy Burnham and his government. The result…

Badenoch persuades Biggar and Tombs to contend that the British Empire was by no means all bad

But the resulting book cannot be considered entirely satisfactory. A polemic would be more readable. So would a satire, if one or other author had the pen of Voltaire and held up to public ridicule the kind of charlatan…

Labour sees off Green challenge to win Holborn by-election

Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali held the north London seat for Labour, but the party's majority was reduced from 11,572 to 3,364. At a victory rally, Abdi-Wali told supporters: "People voted for hope and now we're…

Jonathan Guttentag: Excellence is the aspiration, toil is the discipline and responsibility is the purpose

He founded and leads the Whitefield Community Kollel and serves as International Liaison for the Coalition for Jewish Values. Some years ago, while sightseeing in the picturesque English market town of Oakham, in…

Labour chair of housing committee calls for urgent funds for affordable homes in England

Housing associations have said they could build an additional 41,000 homes outside London over the next 10 years if they had more government funding. They said the extra units would help the government get closer to its…

I would not have voted for Zionism motion, Polanski says

The Green Party leader told BBC Breakfast the motion was "imperfect" and he would have voted for an amended version. However, he said the "substantial part of the motion", that "the displacement and genocide of the…

Hitler Mussolini wins local election

In 2018, also in Peru, Hitler beat Lenin in another mayoral race for the district of Yúngar, when Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde. “I’m the good Hitler,” Alba told broadcasters on…