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The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture, and is mostly written and edited in Britain. [8]
In Northern Ireland, which has a distinct set of political parties, [9] Sinn Féin retained its seven seats and therefore became the largest party; this was the first election in which an Irish nationalist party won the most seats in Northern Ireland.
In October 2023, "Telegraph.co.uk" was the tenth most visited UK newspaper site, with 13.8 million monthly visits, compared to the most popular, the BBC, with 38.3 million. [ 132 ] History
Events from the year 1974 in the United Kingdom.. The year is marked by the Three-Day Week, two general elections, a state of emergency in Northern Ireland, extensive Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of the British mainland, several large company collapses and major local government reorganisation.
Abbey National building society offers free shares to its 5,500,000 members. 14 January – Muslims demonstrate in Bradford against The Satanic Verses, a book written by Salman Rushdie, burning copies of the book in the city streets. 19 January – Unemployment fell by 66,000 in December, to a nine-year low of just over 2 million.
30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the UK at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. 1 November – Black plastic bin bags (manufactured by ICI) are first introduced for waste collection, in Hitchin. [19] [34] 2 November – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case ...
A war of independence followed that ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which partitioned Ireland between the Irish Free State, which gained dominion status within the British Empire, and a devolved administration in Northern Ireland, which remained part of the UK. In 1937, Ireland declared itself fully independent of the United Kingdom ...
Later, as literary editor of the Catholic weekly newspaper for over 15 years, [6] the ex-Catholic priest "by the name of Piers Compton" (1901–1986) published in 1981 the first edition of the unusual book entitled The Broken Cross: Hidden Hand In The Vatican, [7] [8] which was withdrawn within weeks of its initial release, catalogued as a reference book and finally reprinted in 1983 shortly ...