Will ditching inheritance tax make British society a fairer place?
Scrapping inheritance tax sounds like a costly mistake, but it’s a noble idea (Scrapping inheritance tax would cost £15bn a year by 2032, says IFS, …
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Average five-year fixed mortgage rate in UK falls back below 6%
The average new five-year fixed mortgage rate has fallen back below 6% for the first time since early July, according to the sector’s leading data …
Childcare costs ‘soaring by £600-plus a month’ as firms insist on return to office
Parents of nursery and primary school-age children are facing more than £600 of extra childcare costs a month, a study has found, as employers demand …
The austerity influencers of TikTok: ‘I wanted to share the things I have given up’
Admitting that she couldn’t afford shampoo any more – that was the hardest thing. “People might think it was gross,” says 23-year-old Yash Jayachandran, a …
Europe’s workers face bleak winter as firms ‘profiteer’, says union chief
Workers across Europe are “holding on with their fingernails” and face a bleak winter ahead, as high interest rates exacerbate the cost of living crisis, …
Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in Great Britain ‘bribed’ by sellers to offer good review, poll finds
As many as one in 10 Amazon shoppers could have been offered a “bribe” in exchange for a positive review of a product in the …