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Sunak is right that our students need financial literacy – but that shouldn’t mean yet more maths | Simon Jenkins

Sunak is right that our students need financial literacy – but that shouldn’t mean yet more maths | Simon Jenkins

Only GCSE reform can free up space to teach financial literacy | Letter

Teaching practical maths skills is tricky in an overstuffed curriculum, writes Myles McGinley, in response to an article by Simon JenkinsStudents and teachers alike are calling for a more relevant curriculum that includes vital skills like financial literacy (Sunak is right that our students need financial literacy – but that shouldn’t mean yet more maths, 29 May).There is no binary choice between the academic study of maths and more specific knowledge of compound interest or inflation. A...

Court throws out £100m Rwanda claim as botched Tory deal branded waste of money

Court throws out £100m Rwanda claim as botched Tory deal branded waste of money The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands threw out a claim by the Rwandan government for payments it would have received in 2024 and 2025 if the Tory deportation agreement had not been scrapped The UK will not have to pay Rwanda millions of pounds after tearing up the botched Tory deportation policy, a court has ruled. The African nation had sued the government for £100million, arguing it...

The right’s culture war over prostate cancer screening is damaging trust in medicine | Polly Toynbee

The decision not to test all men and only screen the most at risk, including black men, is fact-based. Yet it’s been called ‘two-tier’ – and labelled as misandryIf the country seems to be slipping away from reason and trust in science, blame usually falls on modern phenomena such as social media and its fantastical influencers. Or on the US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s bizarre anti-vaccine, anti-fluoride, anti-evidence lunacy.

Republicans vs. the Fourteenth Amendment

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the Brexit vote, which was cast 10 years ago this month. David explains why Brexit has not only been a failure but has led to years of political instability in the U.K. in the decade following the British vote to leave the European Union. Then, David is joined by Professor David W. Blight to discuss the blood-soaked aftermath of the Civil War and the...

The Guardian view on Britain’s economy: to profit politically a recovery must be felt in people’s pockets | Editorial

Britain’s banks demand a seat at the Brexit negotiating table

Britain’s banks want to muscle in on Keir Starmer’s Brexit “reset” with the EU. After years of being stuck on the sidelines, the City of London’s biggest players are pushing for financial services to finally be given a seat at the negotiating table. “To date, financial services have not been included in the strategic UK‑EU reset,” UK Finance, a lobby group representing Britain’s lenders, said in a report out Monday.

UK wins court case over canceled plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

UK wins court case over canceled Rwanda asylum plan June 1, 2026International arbiters have rejected a Rwanda appeal for damages over the contentious refugee resettlement deal it had signed with the previous British government, which was scrapped by incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer immediately after taking office in 2024. The contentious plan, which seemed at risk of being annulled by British courts anyway, foresaw sending migrants who arrive in the UK illegally seeking asylum to Rwanda,...

How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi

Illustrations by Joan WongWho broke Britain? Someone—or something—must have. The past 18 years, enough time for a whole lost generation to be born and brought up, have yielded nothing but stagnation and mass disillusionment.