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Bloomberg
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Helen Chandler-Wilde: Where Is All the Money Going?
Hi there, it's Helen Chandler-Wilde, a UK journalist and editor of The Readout. Hope you enjoy today's newsletter. This week we're all crouched low, waiting for the Spending Review to hit on Wednesday. There have been a few policies trailed already in the press: science and technology will apparently get a boost of £86 billion, there'll be hundreds of billions for infrastructure (but not in London), and other outlets are reporting today that there could also be a boost in police funding.
Bloomberg
27-05-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
Helen Chandler-Wilde: How to Break out of the (Policy) Matrix
Hi there, it's Helen Chandler-Wilde, a UK journalist and editor of The Readout. Hope you enjoy today's newsletter. Keir Starmer has come back from the Bank Holiday weekend and landed right into a tricky spot fighting off attacks from both the left and the right. Yet incoming fire from both directions is currently coming from the same source: Reform.
Bloomberg
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Allegra Stratton: Is the UK Economy Springing Back to Life?
The Readout is taking a brief poetical turn this Friday. I have two poems ear-worming around my head as we digest both this morning's retail figures as well as the general economic picture as we end this spring statement week. A.E. Housman's Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is the first, because of the very obvious rudeness of health that London's cherry trees are in, all 'wearing white for Eastertide' (before you say 'Eugh, how saccharine,' I assure you the second verse isn't at all).
