The pronunciation of "off" as "awf" is a posh-ism that's been fading for a while now.

Chinese copies of Western designs are well known, including the C919 passenger jet that seems uncannily similar to the Airbus 320 family and the Boeing 737.

Britain’s biggest oil and gas producer is axing investment in the UK and diverting cash to countries including Norway after Labour’s windfall taxes left it with an 111pc tax rate.

There is a strong case for saying that since late last century China and the West have helped each other.

On Thursday, the completion of the $8bn buyout of Paramount by Hollywood minnow Skydance Media marked a seismic shift in the US media landscape.

Britain is now enduring the worst levels of child poverty since modern records began, even worse than in the Thatcher-Major years, and far worse than in most European countries.

Britain’s wealthiest areas will face the biggest council tax rises, experts have predicted.

But the stock exchange isn’t providing enough access to capital, and listed companies aren’t investing to boost growth.

In the UK, different generations have faced vastly different circumstances, technologically, economically, socially, and even environmentally.

It is wholly true that GDP is not the measure of everything - Simon Kuznets, who invented the concept, pointed that out.

Marx’s original thesis of the Sociology of Knowledge argues that ideologies (religion, philosophy, law, etc.) are not neutral or ‘objective,’ but instead reflect the material interests and class positions of those who produce them. Marx