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By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 18:13 EDT, 7 September 2024 Last month, my 96-year-old relative, an Auschwitz survivor, was finally discharged from the bright new Louisa Martindale building at the Sussex County Hospital after a five-week stay. As so often before, her fighting spirit prevailed over a …

Such a fate would greatly undermine the core purpose of the service. As the Greetings Card Association warns, the proposals appear to take the country “one step closer to the dismantling of a postal service that’s affordable and reliable”.  Some would say it stopped being either of those things some time …

When’s the last time you bought a postage stamp? Granted, to do that you have to locate a post office which will probably be at the back of an off licence, past piles of confectionery, rather than in one of the handsome municipal buildings where they were once to be …

By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 16:50 EDT, 2 August 2024 Scrutiny: Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky Keir Starmer is not known for loose language. So it was fascinating to hear him cautioning against ‘flogging off’ vital assets when unveiling plans to make Britain a green energy powerhouse. The Prime …

By Maggie Pagano Updated: 03:47 EDT, 23 July 2024 President Macron must be gnashing his teeth. One of France’s most influential and colourful media tycoons, Vincent Bollore, has chosen the London Stock Exchange to list his global TV arm, Canal+, rather than stay in Paris. It’s a great coup for …

End of the line: a Royal Mail freight train crosses the River Esk at Mossband, Cumbria Credit: alamy. SIR – Royal Mail's announcement of the end of … Source link

By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 17:00 EDT, 10 July 2024 Government is not all about grand gestures such as bulldozing planning laws and a National Wealth Fund to power up Britain’s investment in green technologies. Labour’s inheritance includes the debt crisis at Thames Water, unfinished work in …

By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 17:00 EDT, 9 July 2024 The ‘critical risk’ to Britain resulting from the desperate finances of Thames Water may appear to have little to do with Royal Mail. The Labour administration, which is selling itself as a bastion of stability, needs to …

By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 17:01 EDT, 8 July 2024 As a former Bank of England insider, it should come as no surprise that Rachel Reeves held her first meeting with Andrew Bailey while the embers of the election campaign were still burning. The new Chancellor has …

By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 16:50 EDT, 5 July 2024 Pointing the way: New PM Keir Starmer The scale of Labour’s win gives Keir Starmer’s government the muscle it needs to fulfil its growth mission. Unlike 1997 when Tony Blair swept to power on a great wave …