Labour’s finance spokesperson says Budget 2027's income-tax breaks and welfare boosts are too little, too late for those hit by inflation – but he acknowledges “some good ideas” to support Irish start-ups and scale-ups.
The minister for public expenditure and reform is more concerned with how money is spent than how much. But when dealing with public sector pay or cuts to ring-fenced carbon tax, the numbers still very much matter.
Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke says he expects “good wins” for SMEs in the upcoming Budget. But he has a fight on his hands to get all he wants.
Some see this week’s election in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the rise of the AfD as a sign of what may come. This is a choice yet to be made.
A feminist icon who co-founded Ms. magazine, Steinem spent more than six decades as a journalist, editor, activist and organizer, writes Jon Mooallem, The Wall Street Journal.
Jerry Kennelly’s new documentary tells the Shakespearean story of the Healy-Raes and how a healthy tension between them became “war in the camp”. He talks about how he got inside the Healy-Rae operation.
After Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, the 80-year presidential cycle that periodically redefines the US is now playing out with the Trumpian destruction of trust and shredding of global alliances.
Sitting shin-deep like Canute, Andy Burnham has spent his first weeks in power ranting impotently at the tide.
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects, write Josh Dawsey, Dana Mattioli, Annie Linskey and Emily Glazer, The Wall Street Journal.
Susan O’Keeffe lived and worked in Manchester for 17 years. Andy Burnham’s promise of a “No10 North” won’t fix the distrust she has witnessed between the region and the capital.
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