Banksy has said the home secretary calling his migrant boat artwork at Glastonbury Festival “vile and unacceptable” was “a bit over the top”. A small boat filled with migrant dummies in orange life jackets was hoisted above the crowd and passed around by festival-goers during several performances at the Worthy Farm festival last week. Speaking
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Coal-fired power plants in Mariveles, Bataan, the Philippines, on June 6, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Philippines’ dependency on coal-fired power surged 62% last year, overtaking China, Indonesia and Poland, according to London-based energy think-tank Ember. The Philippines was also the most coal-dependent country in Southeast Asia in 2023, as adoption of
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Whoever wins the next general election will face extremely tough choices on taxation and spending. As the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies has pointed out, both Labour and the Conservatives have ruled out changes to the big four revenue-raisers, income tax, national insurance, VAT and corporation tax. And, while both parties have made relatively modest
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Joe Biden has said he “nearly fell asleep” during last week’s first presidential debate and put his poor performance down to travel exhaustion after going “around the world a couple of times” shortly before it. The US president, 81, said he “wasn’t very smart” for having travelled extensively in the weeks leading up to the
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In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Brand-new Tesla cars sit parked at a Tesla dealership on May 31, 2024, in Corte Madera, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Tesla on Tuesday posted its second-quarter vehicle production and deliveries numbers for 2024. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q2 2024: 443,956 vehicles Total production
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A judge in New York has postponed Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing until September to consider the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity. The US’s top court decided on Monday immunity exists from criminal prosecution for official acts while in office, in a boost for Trump – who is accused of illegally trying to overturn his
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