Rogue landlords in England will face curbs on how much housing benefit they can receive if their properties are substandard, Angela Rayner has said as she announced an extra £350m for affordable housing. The deputy prime minister presented the funding increase, adding to £500m already announced at the budget, as part of the government’s drive…
Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders its decision to rule out spending £10bn compensating “Waspi” (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women hit by the change in the state pension age. Last March, the parliamentary and health service ombudsman recommended compensation should be paid to women born in the 1950s whose…
The artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic said on Monday that it had completed a new fund-raising deal that valued the company at $61.5 billion, up from about $16 billion a little more than a year ago. Led by the venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, the new round will pump an additional $3.5 billion into the…
There’s a slight change at the top in our latest edition of bracketology. Two SEC squads still project as No. 1 regional seeds, but it is now Alabama joining Auburn on the first line. But fret not, Tennessee fans which saw their team drop after a loss to Auburn. The Volunteers remain a solid second…
“Have you ever wondered what you’d do if your world is destroyed?” asks 13-year-old Abdullah, speaking at the beginning of an intimate BBC Two documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, that airs on Monday night. “Most important, could you stay alive? After all this, you could say we’re experts.” Abdullah, now 14 and heading…
Lorraine Kelly opens the front door with a huge smile. “You interviewed me, years ago, d’you remember?” Now she looks disappointed. “Ach, you don’t, do you?” Of course I remember. And she’s hardly changed. I’ve brought a photo of us on the GMTV sofa to show her. Back then, she’d just turned 40, was a…