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An embarrassing day is coming for Australian businesses that have a large gender pay gap, with the data from individual organisations to be made public.

A TORY MP referred to an antisemitic conspiracy theory in a chilling speech at a conservative conference in Westminster on Monday.

In December 2022 the number of excess deaths was 5,900, which is 13.5 per cent above the five-year average

Conversations about the weather are rarely actually about the weather. As the social anthropologist Kate Fox writes in her brilliant and often snort-inducing book, Watching the English, weather chat is in fact “a form of code, evolved to help us overcome our natural reserve and actually talk to each other.”…

Women are also more concerned than men about global warming

Retail bosses under pressure as food inflation proves more ‘sticky’ than expected

THE UK economy marginally grew over the first quarter of the year, according to official data, despite an unexpected slump in March.

But there was 0.1% growth in first quarter overall thanks to a stronger January, ONS says

Bad weather and strikes blamed for forcing down high street sales

Tens of thousands more Brits died than usual from May to December 2022, excluding Covid as a cause of death, raising serious questions as to why so many died

The 2020 figure was down 61.0% from 2019