Email your tax questions to Mike Warburton at taxhacks@telegraph.co.uk* Dear Mike, My two brothers and I have created a very successful family business which now employs more than 1,000 people. The majority of the shares in the business are held by us and our spouses.
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.
Ukrainian authorities say Russian drone and missile strikes targeting Ukraine’s power grid have killed at least five people and wounded 39
Ping! A few hours before I depart for Venice to report on its art biennial – the most important event in the international art world – an electronic flyer flashes up on my phone.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said state visits are a basic right of governments after returning from a three-day trip to Eswatini that Taiwan's government says China tried to block
Biden’s antitrust cops promised that blocking a JetBlue-Spirit merger would help consumers. We’re seeing the results.
Muslim voters are deserting Labour with six in 10 prepared to vote for a pro-Gaza independent candidate or the Green Party in Thursday’s council elections, a poll has revealed. If there were a general election tomorrow, only a third of Muslim voters would support Labour under Sir Keir Starmer, down from a high of 80 per cent, according to the poll of 1,006 Muslim adults by JL Partners for the Policy Exchange.
Supreme Court allows mifepristone prescriptions by mail, for now
Alice Chapman and Zak Khan say they were beaten, kicked and spat on after detention near Crete last weekTwo British activists have said they were admitted to hospital after being beaten by Israeli forces who .Alice Chapman and Zak Khan were among 180 members of the Global Sumud flotilla detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in international waters near Crete late on Wednesday.
The data breach, likely the largest in Canadian history, raises urgent questions about election security The post first appeared on .
There is literary and historical precedent for the normalizing of terrorism.
The Associated Press has won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for stories on the expansion of government surveillance efforts in China and the role that U.S. tech firms played in it
Vladimir Putin has banned his staff from using mobile phones and ordered that surveillance systems be installed in their homes amid mounting paranoia over his safety. The unprecedented security measures have been introduced in recent months owing to intensifying fears of a coup d’état or assassination attempt, according to a European intelligence dossier.
A United Airlines jet came dangerously close to disaster Sunday when it hit a semitrailer truck and a light pole on the New Jersey turnpike as it came into land at Newark Liberty International Airport
The sexual exploitation of British girls has risen by 50 per cent in five years, a report has found. Young girls and boys across the country are increasingly being targeted by criminals through online platforms such as video games, parents have been warned.
The US president vowed to free commercial ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz as part of so-called ‘Project Freedom’
Israeli officials warn that violence threatens state, but attacks, land seizures and blockades continue in West Bank.
U.S. warships shot down missiles and drones aimed at ships the Navy was guiding through the Strait of Hormuz, and the authorities in the United Arab Emirates blamed Iran for a drone attack.
The advice puts babies at risk of serious harm, even death, medical professionals have told the BBC.
Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’Workers developing ’s products in the have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.In a letter slated to go to management on Tuesday and shared exclusively with the Guardian, workers at Google , the company’s AI research laboratory, requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the lab’s UK-based staff.
US operation announced as ‘Project Freedom’ dramatically raises stakes in conflictThe US has launched Donald Trump’s bid to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade.The US operation, which got under way on Monday after being announced as “Project Freedom” by Trump on Sunday night on his social media site, dramatically raised the stakes in a conflict that had been in a month-long period of uneasy limbo.
Vladimir Putin fears a coup or an assassination attempt, with a former defence minister identified as a 'potential destabilising actor', according to a report from a European intelligence agency.
Bombing of Iran's civilian infrastructure has damaged universities, destroyed thousands of books and manuscripts, amid a government-imposed Internet blackout, some of the country's researchers have told Nature.
South Carolina Republican urges U.S. and Israel to arm public to inspire revolution as an alternative to placing American troops in harm’s way
Join writer Rob White in the comments from 10am As a millennial, “entitlement” is a word I’ve heard frequently. My generation, and particularly those that followed, have relentlessly been told we “don’t know we’re born” for daring to grow up with indoor plumbing, schooling beyond the age of 15 and health and safety in the workplace.
Behind the Numbers The Truth About Gaza's Death ListScroll downGaza's fatalities list is an explosive and controversial document. Critics claim the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry duplicates names, counts Hamas militants as civilians and inflates the number of women and minors.
While the doping-friendly event does not seem keen on journalistic interrogation, here’s what needs to be askedThe plan to fly to Las Vegas to cover what the Enhanced Games claims is the “next frontier of human performance” ended with a short email sent at 7.02pm on Friday. “After careful consideration, we are unable to approve your media credential request for this year’s event,” it said. “Due to the high volume of applications and limited media capacity, we could not accommodate all requests … thank you again for your interest and understanding.”Admittedly, the rejection didn’t come entirely out of the blue. Unlike most sports organisations, the Enhanced Games had a pre-screening process which led to a nice PR man calling me a few days beforehand. His opening gambit? To point out the Guardian’s negativity towards the event (; – Marina Hyde; “Competitors run the risk of their libido being ‘killed off’, ” – Sean Ingle).
A-listers were once clamoring to get their hands on an invite. But after this year's Met Gala, some feel that the event has become a 'dystopian' parade of billionaires and influencers.
I condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder and defended the principle of open debate. Months later, the university where he was killed canceled my scheduled speech.
Two U.S. destroyers and two merchant vessels came under fire during successful transits of the strait, while UAE and Oman reported attacks.
After banging his battle drum, Trump is back in Nobel peace prize mode. But the move has dramatically raised the stakes“Project Freedom” has all the trappings of a classic episode of the Trump Show, the reality series that the rest of the world does not just have to watch, but live through and survive. It has a dramatic plot twist, it is bathed in a self-projected beatific light, and the trailer looked far more promising that the reality.Trump spent a long weekend in Florida banging the war drum. Iran had not “paid a big enough price” for its past misdeeds, he wrote in an online post before spending Friday afternoon at America’s largest retirement community.
It is said that the greatest test of a democracy is the protection it gives to its minority communities. But I propose a new test: how a nation protects its children.
Patches of the countryside in Essex and Kent were the latest areas to be targeted at the weekend as council offices closed, much to the dismay of locals.
More than 400 arrivals on Sunday brought the running tally to 199,828, with additional migrants reaching Dover today.
After weeks of drift and wishful thinking, the United States appears to have begun the effort to reopen one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes.
Imagine you're coming up to retirement. All that's left for you to do is log into a state-run smartphone app that tells you when the Government thinks you're going to die.
The rules were changed after the governing body undertook a review of its policy last year.
The film’s villain is a conniving tech oligarch seeking to buy his way into fashion’s inner circle. Sound familiar?In , we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. There was a time where the all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, – could end careers with a glance. But this time, she spends most of the movie taking orders herself. First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing.In the film, Benji is played – scarily well, I should add – by Justin Theroux. After a high-profile divorce, he has had a “glow-up”, which loosely translates to losing weight and boasting a deep mahogany tan. Post-divorce, he is now in a relationship with Emily – Miranda’s acerbic former assistant, played by the scene-stealing , who is described as “every girl who ignored him in high school”. Benji’s inclusion in the story feels representative of the wider media landscape, where the whims of billionaires decide which parts of the old, pre-social media world get to survive. And for Emily, she’s learning that being associated with someone so powerful has the potential to help her finally step out of Miranda’s shadow. The romance between these diametric opposites – Type A fashion queen and a nerd who grew up to become one of the world’s richest men – provides a stream of comic relief. But beyond the laughs are a deeper – and bleaker – statement about how people with enough money can buy cultural power.
US aviation body’s report bolsters theory that fuel switches were deliberately shut down
The local elections on Thursday are set to deliver a political earthquake for the Labour Party. Losses on the scale being predicted – potentially as much as three quarters of the seats it is contesting – would amount to a historic rejection, with once-reliable strongholds such as Sunderland and parts of Wales turning decisively against the party.
The Tell Sid campaign promised to make the working man rich, but in reality the selling of public assets made us all poorerIn the summer of 1987, as life in Britain was being steadily reshaped by Margaret Thatcher, I landed a temporary job as an electrician’s mate in a steel-drum factory. I was a truly useless assistant, and justified my existence by singing songs to entertain my boss as he worked. As I recall, by the time I left Stuart had come round to quite liking Bob Dylan, but still had no time for the gothic gloominess of the early Cure.While I handed him tools he didn’t need, and failed to locate the ones he did, we occasionally talked about politics. Stuart was a gentle man in his mid-20s, already married and hoping to buy a house. He was also, it turned out, a cautious believer in Thatcher’s promise of a “people’s capitalism” in which working people would get a piece of the action. Prior to my coming to “help” him, he was one of the millions who had responded to the previous year’s ad campaign and bought shares in newly privatised British Gas.
Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision, saying the court has hastened it ruling only twice before in 25 yearsThe US supreme court to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by allowing a recent ruling that gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act to take effect ahead of schedule.The procedural move comes less than a week after the court’s landmark decision striking down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Usually, the court waits 32 days to formally issue its judgment to the lower court. Last week, Louisiana asked the court to speed up that process, citing the urgency with which it needed to redraw its congressional maps. On Monday, the court agreed to do so.
The recent probe into a collection of missing scientists has reignited the debate over a decades-old string of deaths among those researching UFOs.
A major policy shift has emerged ahead of the Albanese government's upcoming federal budget.
If there were an easy answer to combating the disturbing rise of anti-Semitism, the world’s oldest hatred, we might have been expected to find it by now. But that hasn’t stopped some from grabbing on to the idea of banning pro-Palestinian marches as the means of stemming the surge in hatred towards Jews in today’s Britain.
Time after time, major business leaders have been ensnared by the very system that ostensibly seeks to build them up.
The Trump administration is spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects
U.S. President Donald Trump launched “Project Freedom” seeking to open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, prompting Iran to lash out
Wu Yize, 22, is the second-youngest winner of the World Snooker Championship A new superstar of snooker. Another Chinese world champion.
A major economic crisis is boosting energy profits. Taxing those can help countries survive and become immune to shocks.