The National Trust’s controversial ‘colonial countryside’ project which has examined links between the trust’s stately homes and Britain’s imperial past was funded with £160,000 taxpayers’ and lottery money, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The project with Leicester University – titled ‘Colonial Countryside: Reinterpreting English Country Houses’ – received £99,600 from […]
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Sunak’s job support scheme ‘will only save 230,000 jobs’
People who fall below the lower limit do not qualify for the Job Retention Bonus, but the bonus is too small to make it worth keeping workers earning above the upper bound. Clare McNeil, associate director of the IPPR, said: “It is absolutely right for the Government to bring health […]
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new UK scheme risks running a repeat of ID card controversy
Rawpixel/Shutterstock Is the UK government planning to revive identity cards for the internet age? The decision to scrap its national ID cards and database in 2010 means the UK is one of the few developed countries not to have such an identity scheme. While this was seen as a victory […]
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Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall, making him the latest in a long list of Trump allies to […]