Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent email Get the latest entertainment news with our free newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free newsletter When Sir David Attenborough was born in 1926, George V was on the throne, Stanley Baldwin was in DowningContinue Reading

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Britain’s over-50s are paying the heaviest price for Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul, with the number of older jobseekers unable to find work climbing by 22 per cent since 2023, according to the latest figures. Just shy of a million workers aged 50 and above are currently locked out of theContinue Reading

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HM Revenue & Customs has suffered a major blow in one of the longest-running and most consequential employment status disputes in British tax history, with a tribunal ruling that 60 football referees engaged by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) were genuinely self-employed, not employees, as the tax authorityContinue Reading

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned that her flagship pay-per-mile tax on electric vehicles risks blowing a £4.8bn hole in the Treasury’s own coffers, with potentially serious knock-on consequences for the small and medium-sized businesses that underpin Britain’s burgeoning clean transport sector. In a robustly worded letter to Dan Tomlinson,Continue Reading

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Britain’s pub trade is calling time at a rate of nearly two locals a day, with industry leaders pinning the blame squarely on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s autumn Budget. Fresh figures from the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) show 161 pubs shut their doors for good in the first quarterContinue Reading

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There’s a version of the AI debate that refuses to go away. One side says human creativity is irreplaceable. The other says AI will eventually render it redundant. In practice, neither framing is particularly useful to a marketing professional trying to do their job well in 2026. The more interestingContinue Reading

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