I t's easy to blame the mainstream media for hounding celebrities but that ignores the demand side of the market. You can trace the news values of the tabloid media via the extremity of the UK Royal Family from Lady Diana Spencer in the 1990s to…

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The Sunday Times – Tim Shipman, Political Editor – Feb 15, 4:01 PM

Downing Street turned on the BBC last night — vowing to scrap the television licence fee and make viewers pay a subscription. The national broadcaster could also be compelled to downsize and sell off most of its radio stations. In a plan…

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a shake-up of US stock market rules intended to help level the playing field between high-frequency traders and other investors. The US securities regulator on Friday called for changes to the way…

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Peter Mandelson and Steve Howell represent the two opposite poles of the Labour party: one was a key architect of Blairism, the other of Corbynism. But they started out as inseparable friends at the same school in north London. Now their focus is…

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A long hurrah for the US expansion as steady she goes. This week the current US economic expansion, which started in June 2009, surpassed 120 months, thereby taking the first place from the 1991-2001 Clinton-era boom as longest post WWII period of…

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