around £10 billion has been spent on a £0.02 cut to the insurance rate, butits £0.02 cut to the insurancee, but its benefits are likely to be cancelled out by an expected rise in council tax. the non—dom tax status has also been scrapped, meaning that wealthy foreign residents will no longer get a tax break. two other news average house prices rose by 0.4% last month. the fifth monthly increase in a row. halifax found property prices grew by 1.7% on an annual basis , grew by 1.7% on an annual basis, compared with 2.3% the previous month. the average british home now costs just under £292,000. it comes after the government cut capital gains tax in yesterday's budget , which is yesterday's budget, which is expected to encourage more house sales . a new train service sales. a new train service between london and central scotland has been given the go ahead.the scotland has been given the go ahead. the rail regulator approved plans to operate four daily return services between london euston and the city of stirling. it'll create new competition for lner, which currently operates services on t

but butitive ways, i think is very important.'ve become a little bit obsessed recently with smoke does hands up, who knows what smokethe audience. okay, fine. so to me, so they are people who parachute of a perfectly serviceable into a wildfire in order to try a that fire out. and they have to paracte cause it's so distant and. there's however many there are federal government emploent and. there's an issue about their pay right now and, pr does a story on what's to the pay of smokejumpers right? what's really interesting is a long interview with a smoke jumper and what it's like come the risk, woman now tiny fraction of smokejumpers. it that parachuting out of planes into is men are id towards. i don't know ianybody on panel wants to do it. i know i don't. of npr to say, okay, well, that's a very male profession, so let's make sure ■ doing that job. i understand the thought process, but on the other hand, you came away from that not recognized the fact this is er something that men do. it's incredibly courageous, it's inibly/h v

. >> butit's different -- it's a different threat, isn't it it's not covid per se and a complete shutdown of global trade. it's things like renewed political tensions between u.s. and china. and like we mentioned, the red sea is very, very volatile, and at this juncture, not at all resolved. >> i think you're right. firms are saying political risk is one of the things they're looking at increasingly. supply chain risks are there, even though it's fallen this month. it's more risk at the moment than something that's baked into their central scenario, but it's certainly something that's on their radar. >> i wonder about wage increases. that's been dramatic we've watched across japan, united states, and across europe what do you say in terms of the willingness of employers to pass on some of the profits through to higher wages? >> firms actually tell us one of their biggest strategic priorities is to maintain or increase profit margins and secondly to reduce costs so in terms of wages, i think historically the current wage expectations are actually on the high side still. i think what that t

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butit. that is it for part two.stic violence and welcome back to headliners. let's get straight into it with the guardian . and bullies do the guardian. and bullies do prosper. perhaps that explains the left's tactics over recent years, paul. >> well, might just do, playground bullies do prosper and go on to earn more in middle age. a five decade uk study finds that aggression at school leads to better paying jobs , leads to better paying jobs, while those with emotional instability went on to earn less. i mean, it's evolution isn't it? this is the survival of the fittest. i mean, we've spent many times, many years, should i say , trying to force should i say, trying to force kindness on people and saying it's kindness that wins the day. and then they watch things like, you know, dragons den or whatever it is, and it's not kindness that makes money. yeah, it is. it is brutality . it is it is. it is brutality. it is desire. it'sjust it is. it is brutality. it is desire. it's just all these things, these bullies. i'm

butit is just going to be an endurance test. just so disappointed in where we are at with this leadership. host: an appropriations bill passed yesterday, how did you sign off on it? guest: i did not. i did not like the fra 1% triggered division. it was the better choice and that was in the fra, and extending to september 30, it brought aillion, and i felt like that was the better solution and something that democrats and republicans signed onto, and i stand by that. i have great angst. i worked for a u.s. senator 20 years ago, known as one of the most prominent voices, talking about the corruption of earmarks and how it leads t that in the earmark process, there were 14,000 and the gop embraceda moratorium. i am disappointed in my republican colleagues in embracing the earmark process once again and to have 6000 earmarks in this 600 page bill worth $12 billion, that told billion in earmarks can go a long ways in physical barriers along the southern border. keep in mind, donald trump at 0 us mile of rehab and building physical ba

butit's kind of been drip fed.ppened is that look the two that when you look at the two situation two situations, situation to two situations, october seventh was horrific. but you know, quite quickly that was , to be fair, kind of was, to be fair, kind of overshadowed by so many things that just happening day that were just happening day after after the after day after day in the images. and doesn't make images. and that doesn't make october less serious. october 7th any less serious. it's the fact that we've it's just the fact that we've got to a point where we had a really bad palestine. >> joanna at, and hamas were allowed to carry what would allowed to carry on. what would women's like in that, women's rights be like in that, in free palestine, you think? >> but a free palestine doesn't necessarily people necessarily mean that people want necessarily in want hamas to necessarily be in charge . charge. >> there also the palestinian >> there is also the palestinian authority, is why authority, and this is why i