If it endures, Donald Trump’s decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history.

“Before the next election we need to show results on the ground, upgrading the existing network and bringing much better services to old industrial towns and forgotten places like Leigh, Wigan, Widnes ...

The government spent £2.8bn of its aid budget on asylum seekers in the UK in 2024, down from £4.3bn in 2023, meaning asylum costs fell from 28 per cent of the aid budget to a fifth last year.

Banking regulator finds 60 out of 267 banks have insufficient US dollar funding to cover exposures in the currency ...

But manufacturers and economists said new tariffs of between 32 and 49 per cent on many south-east Asian economies come as a much bigger shock, undermining the “China plus one” strategy of using them ...

Islands’ exports to US — a category composed almost entirely of a succulent deep-sea fish — will face 42 per cent levy from next week ...

Puma has replaced chief executive Arne Freundt with Adidas’s former sales head Arthur Hoeld, ending a two-and-a-half-year tenure during which the German sportswear group’s shares halved in value.

Oscar-winning maker of ‘The Artist’ Michel Hazanavicius directs a film veering from sombre grace to glaring mis-steps ...

If you’re not familiar with the massively popular video game Minecraft, you may need to do some deep Wikiswotting to avoid A ...

Comedy-horror fantasy Death of a Unicorn is a high-concept movie par excellence, with one simple central idea pushed to the limit. What if unicorns were real — and not gentle benign beasts but ...

Toby Jones combines Henry Higgins and Falstaff as the punctilious mentor who saw greatness in a Welsh schoolboy ...