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Economy, Business & Finance
At least £440,000 aid was spent on Chinese film, TV and museum projects in 2016/17. The total foreign aid budget was £14 billion. Read
Education
300 schools haven’t been inspected by Ofsted for a decade or more as they were last rated as outstanding, so don’t have to be inspected every five years. Read
Crime
The recorded robbery rate in England and Wales increased more in 2016 than 13 countries examined by the Home Office, but the rate itself wasn’t top. Read
At the end of November 2017 I had a great opportunity to work for two weeks with the Digital Team of Full Fact. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
About 775,000 children were born in the UK in 2016, 210,000 to non-UK born mothers. Net migration was at around 245,000 in the year to September 2017. Read
Question Time was in Perth this week. On the panel were Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, Labour MP Caroline Flint, the SNP’s Kate Forbes MSP, rapper Darren McGarvey, and Stagecoach founder Brian Souter Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A report commissioned by the Scottish National Party recommends that an independent Scotland should not immediately change its currency from the pound. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The UK’s economy is growing more slowly than most countries analysed by the OECD in a recent report, but isn’t the slowest. The OECD’s analysis also doesn’t include all developed countries. Read
What can the Northern Ireland Assembly do? Read
On 11 June we’ll be joined by a new Editor: Tom Phillips, previously the Editorial Director of Buzzfeed UK. Read
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