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I just spent a weekend in Monaco and I flew there on easyJet. Who am I? I wonder myself. I mean – there’s flying on easyJet and then there’s flying on easyJet. Low cost air travel achieves its low cost by trimming all the frills from the doily, then adding …

Donald Trump and congressional leaders have announced they had struck a critical debt and budget agreement. The deal amounts to an against-the-odds victory for Washington pragmatists seeking to avoid politically dangerous tumult over the possibility of a government shutdown or first-ever federal default.  The deal, announced by Mr Trump on Twitter and …

The British government has spent £680m of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel extraction abroad since 2010, despite signing up to international agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions and claiming to be a leader on tackling climate change, campaigners say. Nearly a quarter of the total overseas foreign aid budget goes on fossil …

Britain’s budget deficit widened to £7.15bn last month, the largest gap for June since 2015 and more than double last year’s level, official data has shown.  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) focuses on year-to-year rather than month-to-month comparisons in the public finances data because it does not adjust the numbers for …