Vilma Larsson Vilma Larsson, a stay-at-home-girlfriend, gets spending money from her boyfriend Sweden has a global reputation for championing gender equality, so why are young women embracing a social media trend that celebrates quitting work? Vilma Larsson, 25, previously had jobs in a grocery store, a care home and a factory. But she quit work…
Getty Images Cash use in the shops rose for a second year in a row after a decade of falls, according to retailers. Notes and coins were used in a fifth of transactions last year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said, as shoppers found cash helped them to budget better. The amount spent per purchase…
Robbie Anderson Homeowners say they feel “betrayed” and “conned” after struggling to sell their properties due to spray foam insulation fitted under a government scheme. More than 160 people got in touch after BBC research found that a quarter of the UK’s biggest lenders are refusing homes where spray foam is found in the roof…
They are not perhaps the most elegant duo of words, but they get to the heart of what the prime minister wants to set out in a wide-ranging speech on Thursday – what senior folk in government describe as “measurable deliverables”. In other words, Sir Keir Starmer’s “plan for change” to be revealed later will…
President-elect Donald Trump will break his extended hiatus from non-Fox News legacy media outlets this weekend. With one month to go before he re-enters the Oval Office, Trump is set to speak with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on this Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press. It’s his first network interview since Election Night, when the…
Hill farmers’ livelihoods are at risk from delays to new Government support schemes, experts have warned. These farmers are only receiving 8%, or £39million, of the government’s new farming support scheme, the Sustainable Farming Incentive, despite the uplands occupying around 15% of England’s area. Tom Lancaster, land, food and farming analyst at the Energy and…
Rwanda is willing to sign new migrant deals with Donald Trump’s US and the EU, its foreign minister has said. Olivier Nduhungirehe revealed Kigali could sign up to similar schemes it negotiated with the UK. And Mr Nduhungirehe rejected claims that the deportation deal with the UK would not have helped to end the Channel…
The French government has collapsed after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted in a no-confidence vote. MPs voted overwhelmingly in support of the motion against him – just three months after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron. Opposition parties had tabled the motion after the former Brexit negotiator controversially used special powers to force…
Airbus will axe 477 jobs in the UK as the plane maker scales back its space business and tries to trim costs. More than 2,000 jobs – 5% of its workforce – will be lost globally by mid 2026. Compulsory job cuts are not planned, the firm said, adding “almost all of the positions affected”…
Irene Chen and Matthew Grenby, co-founders of functional luxury handbag and accessories brand Parker Thatch, are no strangers to well-timed pivots — having used them to build a business that’s been profitable since day one and will hit eight figures in revenue this year. Image Credit: Courtesy of Parker Thatch Drawing inspiration from Chen’s background…
