On welfare, something is going to have to give

The rebellion is growing bigger and bigger. Cabinet ministers have been given lists of Labour MPs to ring. Hit the phones and twist the arms, are the instructions from the prime minister to his senior team. But, so far at least, it isn’t working. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is involved, arguing how important the changes were…

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Amazon’s $20bn push into orbit targets SpaceX and China

ASSUMING THE weather co-operates—thunderstorms have already caused the abandonment of one launch, on April 9th—at some point in the coming days Amazon will get itself into the space business. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket is on the launchpad in Florida, carrying the first batch of 27 satellites for Amazon’s new “Kuiper” satellite-internet system. The…

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