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A review into how the BBC should be funded has been launched by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, as new action is taken to reduce the impact on licence fee payers in these hard up times. At the same time the corporation needs to grasp that reinventing its news and current affairs content to keep the...
Originally published November 2021. The UK’s success at the Tokyo Olympics has been a ray of sunshine in an otherwise dismal dank summer. The feel-good effect could be long term...
This writer became peripherally involved in a property scam worth millions. Originally published August 2021. One early spring day in 2016, I was interviewed by the Serious Fraud...
...but it won’t wreck Russian sanctions. War is expensive. The United States spent about US$1.1 tn (£830bn) on the 2003 Iraq war in today’s money, while the Falklands war...
In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in real estate....
So here’s the thing. Popular economics (by which I mean the sort that someone with a low pass at maths O-level second attempt can just about grasp) suggests that if supply...
The average resident of Oxford or Cambridge probably doesn’t fancy themselves as having much in common with Peter Hitchens, the great Jeremiah of British reaction. But this week...
US nonfarm payrolls added 467,000 jobs in January, easily beating expectations. The January data reflects annual benchmark revisions, as well as updates to seasonal adjustments....
In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in real estate....
Originally published November 2021. Back in the mists of my own pre-history, I was given the The Big Book of Egypt on an early birthday. It was full of drawings, diagrams and...