Economy, Business & Finance
21% of UK electricity comes from nuclear
In 2015, the nuclear industry supplied about 21% of the UK’s energy overall. Read
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Richard Braham
Economy, Business & Finance
Age, motherhood and the gender pay gap
We’ve seen evidence that the pay gap gets bigger when women become mothers, but they don’t seem to have a clear advantage before then. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Best laid plans... for reducing the deficit
The deficit did fall while the Coalition was in power, but not by as much as originally planned. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
UK development aid spending
The aid budget is going up by a lot, but it isn’t set to have "more than doubled" from 2010-2020. Read
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Immigration
Immigrants learning English
It’s true that older immigrants make up a disproportionate number of those who have poor English, although they’re still in a small minority. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Robots and the future of your job
The Bank of England has estimated that 15 million jobs in the UK could be automated over the next few decades, equivalent to just under half the jobs in the UK right now. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Corporation tax: UK vs USA
US corporation tax rates are about 39%, on average according to the OECD, so about twice that paid in the UK. Read
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Europe
About 1 in 7 German cars are sold in the UK
Germany sells about 14% of all the passenger cars it makes domestically to the UK, a little over one in seven. (That makes up about 18% of the passenger cars it exports, a little under one in five). Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Ethnic diversity on company boards
People from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are underrepresented on FTSE 150 company boards. Read
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Immigration
Immigration and unemployment in the UK
It’s correct that there were about 1.7 million unemployed people in the UK at the last count, in July-September 2016. Read
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