Britain pays for more gas pipeline capacity from Europe amid supply fears
This unlikely scenario is a key standard followed by Britain’s energy authorities to assess its resilience in maintaining gas supply — also called the “N-1 gas security” standard. A shortfall in gas supply would be a…
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Valentin Boboc: To stop spending money, the Chancellor must spend political capital
On Wednesday 28 October, the Chancellor, John Healey, will deliver the Autumn Budget. He does so against a difficult fiscal backdrop. The costs of government borrowing are slowly crowding out other government spending.…
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Hackers launch ‘millions’ of attempts to exploit global PHP cyber flaw
Amazon’s cloud division also said the flaw is “now being broadly exploited in the wild.” Numerous European government departments took their websites offline as a precaution. As of Thursday morning, key French websites…
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Russia launches massive strikes on Ukraine as Trump says peace is closer than ever
“Russian ‘humanitarians’ have launched three waves of ballistic missile strikes against Kyiv, using a total of 21. Unfortunately, the city has sustained significant damage and multiple hits, affecting residential…
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The future EU budget: reconciling immovable objects and unstoppable forces…or not
The latest episode in the drama around the EU budget, or multi-annual financial framework (MFF), for 2028 to 2034 is now unfolding. On 10 October, the Irish Presidency of the Council of Ministers produced a new ‘ negobox…
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Several Labour MPs warn Jackdaw approval could undermine climate progress
However, several Labour MPs have criticised the decision, warning that the approval of drilling would undermine the government’s climate commitments. In a cross-party letter, 18 Labour MPs pointed to severe droughts and…
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MI5 spied on NHS founder Nye Bevan for more than 20 years, newly released files show
Papers given to the National Archives show he first came to the attention of the Security Service in the 1930s when he was considered a firebrand left-winger linked to prominent communists. Monitoring continued after…
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Trump-sanctioned ICC wins EU Parliament’s human rights prize
The €50,000 prize honors defenders of human rights and freedom of thought, with past winners including Nelson Mandela, Alexei Navalny, Belarusian journalists, and the people of Ukraine. The Socialists and Democrats group…
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Adipositas: Sparen kann für den Staat teuer werden
Die politische Frage lautet jedoch, ob es auf Dauer wirtschaftlich sinnvoll ist, vor allem die Folgen der Adipositas zu finanzieren, anstatt Adipositas direkt zu behandeln. Das ist vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen…
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2008 and all that…
Politics, time, history and progress – none of them work that smoothly. But as we embark on yet another round of ‘Brexit – what a disaster!’ – which closely follows the bizarre argument about whether the one true…
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