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Snap Fires More Than 1,200 Employees Amid Massive Revenue Loss and Share Sell-Off
NASA scrubs Artemis I rocket launch to moon due to fuel leaks Snap has fired 20 percent of its workforce, or about 1,280 employees, citing lower revenue growth than expected. The massive job cuts at Snap came after the company reported nearly $10 billion in quarterly losses. The shares of Snap, the parent company of…
Read MoreFord Fires 3,000 Employees as it Aims to Save $3 Billion; 2,000 Jobs Lost in Dearborn
US automobile giant Ford Motor is sacking as many as 3,000 employees and contract workers as economic headwinds deepen. The job cuts will mainly affect employees in the US, Canada and India. Ford has sent an internal email to the staff intimating them about the layoffs, according to the Wall Street Journal. Ford logo Pixabay…
Read MoreEcommerce Stores Witness An Increasing Conversion Rate With Sojas Media
A study by Nasdaq revealed the growing importance of the eCommerce industry. It showed that 95% of shopping around the world will be done through eCommerce platforms by 2040. With the already high demand for Amazon among millennials, eCommerce companies must work hard on their marketing strategies to survive the fierce competition. Word of the…
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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt progress to the final stage of the Tory leadership contest
Read MoreThe centre cannot hold – the failure of Change UK and the atrophying of political thought
The latest disasters to befall Change UK—Chuka Umunna’s decision to join the Liberal Democrats and the party’s decision to change its name for a third time—are a good excuse to reflect on the sad fate of one of the most ill-starred parties in British political history.
Read MoreOn Britain beyond Brexit and the future of Conservatism
THE END-OF-AUSTERITY message has certainly got through to the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). On June 10th the CPS launched “Britain Beyond Brexit”, a new collection of essays edited by George Freeman and written for the most part by fellow products of the 2010 intake of MPs. The CPS hired the biggest room in 1…
Read MoreOn Change UK’s inadequacies, political agreements and missing Scots
I WAS much impressed by Heidi Allen’s first speech when she left the Conservative Party to join the Independent Group, now known as the Change UK Party. How could the Conservative high command have ignored such a prodigious talent? But I’m afraid I was very much underwhelmed by her performance at a Beer and Brexit…
Read MoreOn “Fleabag”, a Corbyn government and Kenneth Clarke’s tandoori moments
Our Britain columnist laments the decline of working-class culture
Read MoreOn “Game of Thrones”, Conservatism, Israel and Lidl
Our political columnist pitches a dynastic new television show
Read MoreOn parliamentarians talented, vainglorious, entertaining and anarchic
Our Britain columnist considers the best and the worst of MPs in a lively week in the House of Commons and beyond
Read MoreOn political caricatures, “real” policies and the idea of public service
By BAGEHOT THE PARADOXES of Brexit multiply by the day. Brexit was supposed to allow Britain to take back control of its destiny. This week a British prime minister sat in a windowless room in Brussels while 27 European countries debated the country’s future in the council chamber (though Donald Tusk, the European Council’s president,…
Read MoreOn democracy, Sir Lewis Namier and the struggles of the super-rich
Our Britain columnist has not lost all faith in his country’s parliament
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