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Tesco criticised as chief pockets £4.75m amid soaring prices
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Tesco has been criticised for paying its chief executive £4.75m last year, including the highest annual bonus awarded by the supermarket since 2016, as families struggle with rising food costs. Ken Murphy’s package in...
Keep your hands in your pockets, minister tells male MPs amid sexism row
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The UK international trade secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, has urged male colleagues to “keep your hands in your pockets” as she said all women in parliament have been subjected to “wandering hands”. Speaking on Sky ...
Tax the wealthy to give care workers a pay rise, don’t raid ordinary workers’ pockets
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In a week’s time, the TUC will hold its 153rd congress in London. Shortly before I get up to give my annual address, a short film will be played of some care workers I met in Middleton, Greater Manchester, this summer...
‘I am begging you, get the vaccine’: pockets of fear emerge in Serbia
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Serbia’s most famous citizen, the tennis champion Novak Djokovic, has been vocally cautious about vaccines. A government adviser on the pandemic told media last March that Covid-19 “exists only on Facebook”. When case...