The interest rate the taxman charges on unpaid tax has reached a 14-year high of 6 per cent, but if you expect the same return on anything it owes you, you’ll be out of luck. HM Revenue & Customs increased ...
Footfall in December reached its highest level since the pandemic as shoppers headed to stores in search of Christmas gifts. Figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) showed that overall footfall during December was up 15.1 per cent from the ...
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are back for 2023, savoring the chaos in Congress. As the House Republican rebellion threatens to keep Kevin McCarthy from gaining the speaker’s gavel, Ryan and Tho look at ...
In recent years, we’ve seen the issue of changing US state borders come up repeatedly. For example, activists in some Colorado counties in 2013 proposed breaking off to form a new state. Since 2021, a similar idea has persisted in ...
SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia’s population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to drive growth, though a speedy recovery in migration promises to soften the blow. Data in the government’s 2022 Population Statement out on Friday also showed ...
US pharma giant Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday it is planning to realign its early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases and oncology, to focus on areas like rare and benign hematology. Pfizer will also move away from having a rare disease research unit to align important rare disease programs to areas across its research units. “We are refocusing our approach to early discovery and development research in rare disease and oncology,” ...
WASHINGTON – A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, part of what the US military calls routine activity but which has riled China. In recent years, US warships, and on occasion those from allied nations such as Britain and Canada, have sailed through the strait, drawing the ire of China, which claims Taiwan against ...
LONDON/MADRID – Britain’s Prince Harry says his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry’s American wife, Meghan, in his much-awaited memoir, which went on sale days early in Spain ...
SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia’s tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China’s scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests before entry that Europe, Japan and the United States have imposed on Chinese visitors. Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 billion people, ...
We know that “bring the troops home” is too much for America’s foreign policy establishment. But if they can’t handle that, a good first step would be to at least “bring the troops home” to the western hemisphere and the ...