Strikes: the crunch is coming – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on the new militancy’s next phase and the House of Windsor’s feeble reboot It’s approaching to a year since the strike wave in Britain began, with the RMT taking action from last June. And the movement has shown tremendous resilience – coming out on strike again and again, …

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Sunday share tips: Billington Holdings, Henry Boot

The Financial Mail on Sunday‘s Midas column touted shares of steel group Billington Holdings. The tipster highlighted the company’s move into multiple high-growth fields, ranging from movie studios to renewable energies, data centres or online warehouses. Among its green projects was the recent construction of energy-from-waste plants, including that at …

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Meghan Markle dismisses claim over why she’s missing coronation

It follows reports she’d written to her father-in-law after appearing with Prince Harry on the Oprah Winfrey Show in March 2021. During the interview, she claimed a member of the Royal Family had speculated about how dark their unborn son’s skin would be, plunging the monarchy into a racism storm, Sky News reports. It had been …

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