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The Guardian view on the banks: too big to fail cannot mean too big to tax | Editorial

It's about time for the chancellor to act. Banks have been raking it in. The campaign group Positive Money reported this summer that Britain's four biggest banks made £29bn in the first half of this year, up a fifth on…

Six-figure payout for senior civil servant sacked over Peter Mandelson vetting

Robbins had applied to the high court for a judicial review of the prime minister's decision to remove him as the top civil servant at the Foreign Office after he was dismissed in April. He was removed from his post by…

Ex-top official Robbins reaches settlement with government over sacking

The FDA union, which represented him in the legal action, said Sir Olly had been made a "scapegoat" to "mask the misjudgement" of Sir Keir. How much Sir Olly received in the settlement has not been made public. It came…

21 things we learned at the EU leaders’ summit

Italy and Greece joined the Visegrád Four — Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — in calling for a delay, a push rejected by the majority of countries. The debate dragged on, delaying lunch (spare a thought for our…

The Cult of AI and the Case for Human Control: Does the Machine Stop?

At the same time, the solution is obvious. Humanity is the only thing that can control the remarkable and promising technology it has invented — and therefore must. The catalogue of fears is long. Mass unemployment . The…

Housing loans granted while Burnham was mayor investigated by councillors

About 50 developers have been lent more than £1bn between them from a fund managed by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) since 2015. John Leech, the chairman of the GMCA's Overview and Scrutiny Committee…

In Europe’s tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffs

There’s an “awakening” happening right now among workers in Ireland’s tech sector, and a growing “awareness that they’re not bulletproof,” said Sinéad Gibney, a social democrat lawmaker who previously worked for Google.…

Scottish government set to drop opposition to new oil and gas fields

That draft strategy is “out of date,” one senior Scottish government official said. They said a new strategy, expected by the summer, will not contain this wording. A second person with knowledge of the policy said the…

Burnham says ‘too much time is wasted in those dramas’ when asked about Scottish independence – as it happened

When asked by the BBC whether his approach with devolution will make him more or less likely the last prime minister of the United Kingdom, he said: "Obviously, I don't want to be that." The SNP has been pushing for a…

Video of woman being dragged by uniformed men does not show forced conscription in Ukraine

But the footage does not show this. Full Fact has traced the events back to an environmental protest against the felling of trees in Teremky, a neighbourhood in Kyiv. The video shows uniformed men holding a woman by her…