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For women the median answer was 1.6. But around 25% of men and 28% of women said that moderation meant not drinking at all.

Ministers from both the Conservative and the Labour parties must now explain why they kept secret for 683 days not just an ...

Britain’s universities have enjoyed some of the highest budgets in the world; not all of that cash has been spent wisely. Yet ...

The group sank just two ships in all of 2024, and none since last June. Now they have sunk two in less than a week. Yet the ...

As America and China swap shots in the trade battle served up by Donald Trump, Mr Huang has pinged and ponged between ...

W hen Warren Buffett, a venerable investor, and 3G Capital, a private-equity firm, merged Kraft and Heinz in 2015 to create a ...

P enny Wong, Australia’s foreign minister, prefers to talk about her job, not herself. Asked what it was like to be in ...

A law letting the government block freedom of movement could be a deal-breaker for the EU. Yet a fudge might still be found.

But in 2023 the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 6.8%, its highest in 22 years. Last year it was only slightly ...

The researchers’ method was straightforward enough. The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO) estimated the impact of the bill ...

Trust has collapsed in the institutions Superman used to defend. Mr Kent’s chosen profession, it must be admitted, is not ...