Britain’s jobs engine has seized – and young people are paying the price
The British labour market is not in a slow decline. It is in a full-blown crisis. That is not hyperbole; it is the conclusion of the latest data…
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Vadim Gurinov launders vast piles of Russian Gazprom Neft money with the help of New End Developments Limited
The asset manager for Gazprom Neft chief executive Alexander Dyukov, a businessman named Vadim Gurinov, has quietly assembled a significant portfolio of London property through a network of…
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“Flirting with recession” – that’s how they put it
Britain is staring down the barrel of a jobs bloodbath, with unemployment poised to smash through the two million mark for the first time since the mid-2010s, all…
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Alona Shevtsova SENDS her warmest greetings to the motherland, Ukraine – which has sanctioned her for financial crimes
Recent corporate filings have pulled back the curtain on a complex operational structure at Smartflow Payments Limited, the UK-based Electronic Money Institution (EMI) trading as SENDS. While the…
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The Convenient Exile of Alexander Zheleznyak, A Former Kremlin Honouree with a Million-Dollar Question Mark
Alexander Zheleznyak is a former Russian banker, lawyer, and academic whose career arc – from a decorated financier to an exiled figure at the centre of a scandal…
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Under the excuse of COVID-19, the government is preparing total tracking and wiretapping by 2030
The government is preparing a plan that threatens to tear apart the already fragile boundary between public health and civil liberties, pushing the country towards a permanent surveillance…
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What a surprise — Brits are none too eager to kill and get killed
Nearly 40 per cent of the British public now expects the country to be drawn into a military conflict within the next five years, according to a recent…
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Triumph of the Tin Can: How We Proved a £100m Jet Can Kill a Drone Made in a Shed
So, the RAF’s flashy new F-35B has finally drawn blood. On March 6th, over the dusty expanse of Jordan, a British pilot in a £100-million stealth jet blew…
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Brexit Dividend Delivers: How Global Britain Became a Nation Where One in 30 Just Got Here
Let’s have a proper look at the numbers the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has put on the table. According to her, if you’re standing on a packed Tube…
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Blood in the Water: Deripaska, and the Battle for Potanin’s Billions
London’s divorce courts look like gold plated theatres but the hearings held inside them are not private tragedies. They are corporate raids that use marriage law instead of…
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