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BRAZIL RUT
Low-carbon technologies may have come a long way, but Saudi Arabia, Russia and others at COP30 still managed to defer progress towards ending fossil fuels.

MAIL SHOT
One question hanging over the planned acquisition of the Telegraph titles by Lord Rothermere's Mail group is where it will get the £500m from to fund it.

PRECIOUS MITTAL
The departure of Lakshmi Mittal from the UK was held up as an example of the harm ending "non-dom" tax status is doing – but what will it really cost us?

UNSETTLED OUTLOOK
The Post Office's Horizon Shortfall Scheme is itself falling short, with not one single settlement with any victim occurring in October.

GROK OF SHIT, Pt 94
Elon Musk's AI tool Grok has proved it can peddle racist rubbish in multiple languages, as well as calling to defund the BBC over its, er, propaganda.

COVID CONCERNS
Baroness Hallett's long-awaited UK Covid inquiry Module 2 report didn't contain any conclusions that weren't already common knowledge, writes MD.

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Pound of flesh
The Home Office's shady money-saving wheeze

Position of power
Which energy companies are too big to fail?

Paper travails
All change at Reach plc and the Telegraph

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