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He once dismissed Bitcoin as being “based on thin air”, but Donald Trump has very much changed his tune on crypto-currencies.

The pound has slumped to its lowest level in nine months after government borrowing costs surged to their highest since the banking crisis in 2008.

Opening a new coal mine in one of the world’s most developed countries was always going to be highly controversial, in the context of net zero targets and the carbon-cutting consensus.

I cover wars, natural disasters and personal tragedies on an almost daily basis so I thought I’d be braced for anything as I prepared to confront my own deepfake.

Britain’s economy unexpectedly shrank in October, according to the latest official data.

Here in the UK, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised a crackdown on ‘waste’ within government departments – insisting they find savings of five percent in the next four years. 

We spoke to Rain Newton-Smith, the chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry.

The head of the CBI says the Chancellor’s tax rises caught companies off guard, and they can no longer afford to invest or hire new people.

The government will soon set out its strategy to bring down the soaring number of people who are too sick to work.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency is soaring towards an extraordinary milestone, with one Bitcoin worth almost $100,000.

The rate of inflation has gone up by more than expected – thanks to the recent increase in gas and electricity bills.  

It feels, indeed, like a twin track process, with the world of politicians and diplomats trying to play catch-up in a world where global capitalism senses that money, jobs, profit and The Future lie in the world of green transition.

A joint investigation from Channel 4 News and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that the UK bank NatWest is continuing to lend to the oil and gas company BP.

COP29: Around $2.4 trillion annually are required, and on the face of it, those figures look screamingly, painfully, impossible. In fact, though, we are already awash with money.

The Bank of England has cut interest rates again to 4.75% – although it came with a warning, that Rachel Reeves’ budget would add more inflationary pressure to the economy.