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British law has no age for cosmetics beyond a check for under-threes. We read 1,218 ingredient lists: among the brands tweens buy, one product in seven has a retinoid or an acid and none states an age. Europe capped retinol in 2024; Britain has not. The alerts catch toy make-up, not the trend.
· 15 min read · 50 sources
Overseas companies hold 91,109 titles in England and Wales, about 22,000 of them flats. We matched every one to the register meant to name their owners. Four in ten lead to a named person, nearly half of them British. The rest end at a company, a trust, or nothing. 445 penalties; £1.18m collected.
· 16 min read · 47 sources
Parking firms asked the DVLA for a keeper's name and address 16.9 million times last year to send charges that are not fines. We read the law, the audits, the codes and the court files. The release is lawful, the checks are light, the £70 add-on is in doubt, and the 2019 code is still not law.
· 19 min read · 40 sources
We downloaded every food hygiene rating in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and snapshots back to 2019. A quarter are over two years old, big brands are almost never marked down, franchised chicken shops and corner-shop fascias are, and customers who get ill almost never reach anyone who counts.
· 19 min read · 42 sources
An American property trust paid £6.4bn last October for the homes of Britain's two biggest care chains. We traced the money through Companies House, the regulator's files and the operators' own accounts: who owns the homes, who runs them, and how much of the fee reaches the care.
· 14 min read · 30 sources
Official inflation is 3.1%. The public thinks it is 4.9%, and most people say their costs rose again last month. Both can be right. A deep dive into how the ONS builds the figure, who it does and doesn't describe, and what the evidence says about the gap between the statistic and the shopping trip.
· 11 min read · 26 sources
A federal judge ordered the White House to give CNN, MS NOW and Politico their passes back early on Thursday. We read the complaint, the government's defence, the letter that tried to justify the ban and the ruling itself, and attached all four below.
· 7 min read · 10 sources
Washington and Beijing are building separate chip stacks, separate rulebooks and, increasingly, separate internets. As Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, a Reuters analysis shows investors on both sides quietly refusing to choose. Here is what that means for anyone with money in AI.
· 6 min read · 8 sources
Smart glasses, AI pins and clip-on recorders are being sold as the computer after the smartphone. A Reuters analysis this week shows the industry has hit the one problem a better chip cannot fix: the people on the other side of the lens.
· 6 min read · 8 sources
In his first General Assembly speech, the new Prime Minister accused Russian agencies of trying to interfere in the 2019 election, announced a National Centre for Information Defence and an AI defence pact with Washington. Here is what he said, and what he left out.
· 5 min read · 6 sources
