UK increases windfall tax on profits of oil, gas companies

  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"That means grappling with the demands of nurses, police officers, border guards and civil servants who are all clamoring for pay increases after inflation accelerated to a 41-year high of 11.1"
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Britain's government has faced pressure to increase taxes on oil and gas companies to help fund support for millions of Britons struggling to cope with soaring energy prices."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The budget comes against a grim backdrop, with the war in Ukraine, aftershocks from the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic strains of Britain's exit from the European Union all weighing on the U.K. economy."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Washington -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will address her future plans in a speech from the House floor on Thursday as Republicans are projected to win narrow control of the House, bringing an end to her four-year hold on the speaker's gavel and relegating Democrats to the minority."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Stay tuned, Drew Hammill, Pelosi's spokesman, said on Twitter on Wednesday."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Since her election to Congress in 1987, Pelosi has risen through the ranks of House Democratic leadership, serving as minority whip -- her election to that position made Pelosi the highest-ranking woman in congressional history -- and then House Democratic leader, a role she has held since 2003."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Since her election to Congress in 1987, Pelosi has risen through the ranks of House Democratic leadership, serving as minority whip -- her election to that position made Pelosi the highest-ranking woman in congressional history -- and then House Democratic leader, a role she has held since 2003."
Positive
12% Conservative
"The speaker told CNN on Sunday that her Democratic colleagues had asked her to consider ruing in the caucus' leadership elections, set to begin at the end of the month, but she said any decision on whether to do so will be rooted in the wishes of my family and the wishes of my caucus.Mr. Biden also asked Pelosi to stay in office, telling the California Democrat after she won her own reelection bid that I hope you stick, according to Politico."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The speaker told CNN on Sunday that her Democratic colleagues had asked her to consider ruing in the caucus' leadership elections, set to begin at the end of the month, but she said any decision on whether to do so will be rooted in the wishes of my family and the wishes of my caucus.Mr. Biden also asked Pelosi to stay in office, telling the California Democrat after she won her own reelection bid that I hope you stick, according to Politico."
Positive
10% Conservative
"While Pelosi said in 2018 that she would limit her term as Democratic leader to four years, a pledge that appeased enough members of her party to secure the speaker's gavel once more, she has been pushed to reconsider after the red wave expected for Republicans did not happen."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Hammill aounced in a subsequent tweet that Pelosi will deliver remarks on the House floor at 12:10 p.m. E.T.It was unclear heading into Thursday whether Pelosi had made a decision about her future as the House's Democratic leader, and she took two versions of her speech home with her Wednesday night, a source familiar with the matter said."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Hammill aounced in a subsequent tweet that Pelosi will deliver remarks on the House floor at 12:10 p.m. E.T.It was unclear heading into Thursday whether Pelosi had made a decision about her future as the House's Democratic leader, and she took two versions of her speech home with her Wednesday night, a source familiar with the matter said."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The anticipated aouncement about whether Pelosi will seek another term in House Democratic leadership or clear the way for a new generation of lawmakers to run the caucus will put to end months of speculation about her political future."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"It also follows the violent attack on her husband Paul Pelosi, of which Pelosi herself was the target, at their San Francisco home last month, which the speaker told CNN would influence whether she would step aside."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"She was also a staunch opponent of former President Donald Trump, overseeing both House impeachment proceedings against him."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"She has served four nonconsecutive terms as speaker since, uniting an often fractious Democratic caucus to pass some of the most consequential legislation in recent history under the Obama and Biden administrations."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"She has served four nonconsecutive terms as speaker since, uniting an often fractious Democratic caucus to pass some of the most consequential legislation in recent history under the Obama and Biden administrations."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Their fractured relationship was memorably on display after Trump's State of the Union address in 2020, after which Pelosi tore up a copy of his remarks."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Their fractured relationship was memorably on display after Trump's State of the Union address in 2020, after which Pelosi tore up a copy of his remarks."
Positive
0% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% :That means grappling with the demands of nurses, police officers, border guards and civil servants who are all clamoring for pay increases after inflation accelerated to a 41-year high of 11.1% in October.
40% : Britain's government has faced pressure to increase taxes on oil and gas companies to help fund support for millions of Britons struggling to cope with soaring energy prices.
38% :The budget comes against a grim backdrop, with the war in Ukraine, aftershocks from the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic strains of Britain's exit from the European Union all weighing on the U.K. economy.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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