NHS boss targets wrong area in cost-saving drive

SIMON Stevens, the head of the NHS, has said that patients will have to wait longer for what he calls “non-urgent” operations such as hip and knee replacements or cataract removal. Source: Daily Express :: Comment Feed...

Ivanka Trump’s new job

IVANKA TRUMP is not the first presidential child to be a close assistant to her father. Anna Roosevelt moved into the White House in 1944 and accompanied Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta conference of world leaders in...

Citizens Advice launches new checker for customers to find right energy supplier

A NEW online checker to help energy customers find the right supplier has just been launched by Citizens Advice . Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2nTB5...

Lifetime ISA 2017: Seven reasons to transfer money from Help to Buy ISA to Lifetime ISA

YOUNG people will soon be able to save for their first home using the new Lifetime ISA. Here are seven reasons you should move your money over from the Help to Buy ISA. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://if...

A new Israeli settlement on the West Bank

IN RESPONSE to international pressure, Israel has built no new settlements in the occupied West Bank for over two decades, focusing instead on construction within the 120 or so that are already there. But on March 30th...

Pound V US dollar: GBP/USD rate DOWN from best levels after UK GDP

THE pound edged away from its recent highs against the US dollar this morning despite an uptick in the UK's latest growth figures. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2ojob...

The graphs revealing how the EU will harm ITSELF if it punishes UK on Brexit trade

THE European Union will shoot itself in the foot if it decides to punish Britain with trade barriers during Brexit negotiations, fresh statistics suggest today. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2oj...

SpaceX successfully reuses a rocket booster

IT WAS a nice piece of marketing. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6.27pm on March 30th by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocketry company, had already been into space once. But there was to be no talk...

Pound news latest: One-month HIGH for GBP against the euro

WHILE the UK’s official Brexit negotiations having finally kicked off, the pound has remained pretty upbeat so far with the currency recording gains against the euro, US dollar, Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar. Source:...

South Africa’s president sacks the finance minister in a cabinet reshuffle

JACOB ZUMA waited until the dead of night to tell South Africans that he had fired their respected finance minister. Rumours of a cabinet reshuffle had been swirling for months. Finally, in a press statement released just...

Fair trade? World trade boost helps UK’s current account deficit

THE UK has continued to run a trade deficit with the European Union but trade with the rest of the world has dramatically improved, indicating Britain would continue to prosper once Brexit has been finalised. Source:...

City news: Pure Gym, Royal London, AO World and Booker

PURE Gym is outmuscling “old style” operators as it bulked up with 23 per cent membership growth to 822,000 last year. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2oowN...

BREAKING: UK growth at 1.9 percent - official figures released

THE UK economy grew by 1.9 percent last year, according to official figures released today. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2nGwJ...

BREAKING: Chancellor to sell £11.8BILLION of Bradford & Bingley loans

CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has triggered the sale of £11.8 billion worth of Bradford & Bingley loans bought during the financial crisis. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2nRnZ...

South Korea’s president is arrested on charges of bribery and abuse of power

PARK GEUN-HYE has had a tough ten days: 14 hours of interrogation by prosecutors, followed by another nine spent in a local court yesterday. The prosecutors had been waiting for months to serve the former South Korean president...

A stalled treaty with China highlights Australia’s geopolitical dilemma

LI KEQIANG, China’s prime minister, could not have been more tactful during his recent visit to Australia. On March 25th he joined Malcolm Turnbull, his Australian counterpart, at an Australian rules football match between...

David Cameron ought to have stayed silent on EU

WHATEVER else history says about David Cameron it will always record that he did the right thing in keeping his promise to hold a referendum. Source: Daily Express :: Comment Feed http://ift.tt/2oFqZ...

Smaller chocolate bar plan is about profits not obesity

I GROAN every time I hear of government and industry getting together to make a voluntary agreement on public policy. Source: Daily Express :: Comment Feed http://ift.tt/2nRjQ...

100 years old and STILL counts every per cent...

HERE is the second instalment of our 2017 cut-out-and-keep meta-survey. Source: Daily Express :: Comment Feed http://ift.tt/2nlNM...

Pound V euro: GBP/EUR bounces higher on German inflation slump

AFTER fluctuating in response to the activation of Article 50, the pound has pushed higher against the euro in response to disappointing data from Germany. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2mTdj...

ISA 2017: Can I move my ISA money into a different ISA account?

SAVERS are running out of time to make the most of their tax-free savings allowance ahead of the ISA deadline next week. But can you move your ISA money into a different ISA account? Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed...

Justices consider the case of an immigrant who received bad legal advice

HOWEVER the Supreme Court decides Lee v United States, a vexing case argued on March 28th, criminal defendants would be wise to heed this warning: client beware. Your lawyer may be a nitwit. Jae Lee would be much better...

Lifetime ISA providers: Switch from Help To Buy to save for a home with new accounts

SAVERS trying to scrape together a deposit for their first home have been urged to consider swapping Help to Buy ISAs for a Lifetime ISA from April 6. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2oCR4...

Financial fraud tops £768 million as impersonation scams and cyber attacks drive increase

Financial fraud losses involving payment cards, remote banking and cheques totalled £768.8 million in 2016, an increase of two per cent on the previous year. Source: Daily Express :: Finance Feed http://ift.tt/2of0C...

Is China challenging the United States for global leadership?

AS DONALD TRUMP prepares to welcome Xi Jinping next week for the two men’s first face-to-face encounter, both countries are reassessing their place in the world. They are looking in opposite directions: America away from...

Can Hong Kong’s next leader satisfy her masters and the public?

IN THREE months, celebrations will take place at Hong Kong’s harbour-front convention centre to mark the 20th anniversary of the territory’s momentous return from Britain to China. The rumour is that President Xi Jinping...

Islamic State is losing land but leaving mines behind

One down, many thousands to go SCENES of jubilation greeted Kurdish-led forces when they routed Islamic State fighters from the city of Manbij in northern Syria last August. In the streets, women set fire to the long black...

Famine menaces 20m people in Africa and Yemen

OUTSIDE a thatched hut in Panyijiar, in South Sudan, Nyakor Matoap, a 25-year-old woman, clutches the youngest of her three children. Dressed in a silky emerald shawl, she hides the baby, named Nyathol, underneath its folds....

Bibi Netanyahu takes on the media

ISRAEL’S prime minister recently told an American audience that “there is no country in the world where the press is freer [than Israel]. There is no country in the world that attacks its leader more than the Israeli press...

Why Egypt’s ruler loves Donald Trump

DONALD TRUMP’S decision to give up his salary as president was not inspired by similar gestures made by previous American leaders, such as Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy. Rather, Mr Trump was “following in the footsteps”...

France’s presidential race is a clash of worldviews

Two against the EU WHAT did Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s National Front, expect to gain by visiting Moscow on March 24th? Her core supporters relished seeing her with Vladimir Putin, a strong woman standing next to...

Aleksei Navalny brings Russia’s opposition back to life

NOBODY inside or outside Russia saw it coming. The government seemed to have established complete control over politics, marginalising the opposition with nationalist adventures in Ukraine and Syria. Vladimir Putin’s approval...

As the world sours on trade, the EU sweetens on it

WHAT a difference a few months makes. Barely half a year ago the European Union’s (EU’s) trade policy was a mess. A much-touted trade and investment partnership (TTIP) with the United States was on life support, trashed...