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Economy7 hours ago
Fears for Christmas trade as Royal Mail puts cap on collections
For the small firms that make Britain’s Christmas economy feel local, personal and worth paying for, the festive season is not a gentle uplift but a hard sprint. It is
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AI8 hours ago
NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services
The NHS’s next attempt to tame demand begins, as so many modern reforms do, with a smartphone. Ministers and NHS England have confirmed that the NHS App will begin using
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Artificial intelligence8 hours ago
Starling Bank to cut 130 jobs and boost investment in AI to reduce costs
Starling Bank has told staff it will cut 130 jobs while increasing investment in artificial intelligence, a combination that has become a familiar corporate refrain but lands with particular force
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Technology8 hours ago
Co-op’s pavement robots revive an old argument about who the street is for
On an unremarkable afternoon in Milton Keynes, a small white box on six wheels noses its way along the edge of the pavement, keeping a cautious distance from a pram,
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Business9 hours ago
Prediction markets are booming. But is the party about to stop?
For the devotees of America’s newest obsession, the future is no longer something to be endured, forecast or feared. It is something to be priced, traded and, if you fancy
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Business9 hours ago
The £5bn dogfight: why private equity wants easyJet
For a business built on punctuality, easyJet has spent the past few years looking as though it is permanently stuck in a holding pattern. Passenger demand returned after the pandemic;
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Housebuilding9 hours ago
‘Buy back shares or we’ll escalate,’ housing giant warned
The revolt gathering pace inside Britain’s biggest housebuilder is not the usual grumble about executive pay or a poor quarter’s trading. It is a more fundamental argument about what a
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RetailYesterday
Hargreaves Lansdown’s Vanguard raid signals a sharper, tougher future for Britain’s retail investing giant
Hargreaves Lansdown has spent much of its life behaving like the incumbent it is: dominant, well-capitalised, and comfortable charging a little more than the upstarts snapping at its heels. That
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GovernmentYesterday
Pubs scramble as government lifts the shutters for England’s 1am World Cup test
There are few things more British than a pub door unlocked against the sensible advice of bedtime. The nation has built an entire folklore around last orders, closing time and
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Electric VehiclesYesterday
UK electric vehicle sales hit record levels
The moment Britain’s electric car market ceased to be a niche pursuit for early adopters and became, in simple arithmetic, a mainstream choice has been approaching for some time. In
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BusinessYesterday
Tate & Lyle takeover generates £163m fees bonanza for the City
The £2.7 billion takeover of Tate & Lyle by Ingredion has been greeted in the Square Mile with the sort of quiet satisfaction that rarely makes it into the deal
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Defence IndustryYesterday
German defence rival buys UK firm that made Spitfire parts
The symbolism is hard to miss. A Yorkshire engineering business that helped to keep Spitfires in the air at the moment Britain most needed them has been sold to a
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CompaniesYesterday
Aviva joins opposition to £5.7bn DCC takeover deal
When an asset manager the size of Aviva Investors decides to pick a public fight with a board, it is rarely about theatrics. It is about price. In the contest
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PropertyYesterday
Death of the high street turns retail parks into hot property
For years, Britain’s retail parks were treated as functional afterthoughts: practical sheds on ring roads, useful for buying a sofa, a tin of paint, or a replacement tumble dryer, but
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EnergyYesterday
Mark Carney pivots Canada back to oil and gas in net zero retreat
Mark Carney has spent much of his public life urging governments, banks and boardrooms to treat climate risk as financial risk. Now, as Canada’s prime minister, he is arguing that
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ManufacturingYesterday
Elon Musk puts a weekly ceiling on Tesla’s appetite for external AI
Tesla employees have been told to curb their use of external artificial intelligence tools, after Elon Musk introduced a weekly limit of $200 (about £150) on spending with third-party AI

GovernmentYesterday
Pubs scramble as government lifts the shutters for England’s 1am World Cup test
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Business5 days ago
Businesses warn Burnham that ambition on devolution needs a delivery plan
Andy Burnham’s first major economic intervention since becoming the effective prime minister in waiting has been greeted with a wary mixture of interest and scepticism by business leaders, who welcomed
Economy6 days ago
South Korea’s Skincare Success Tells a Bigger Story About a Country Remaking Its Economy
South Korea’s rise has long been measured in the hard currencies of industrial might: semiconductors, shipbuilding, steel and, more recently, electric vehicles and batteries. Yet some of the country’s most
Economy6 days ago
Trump’s fossil-fuel revival and the climate politics Europe can no longer ignore
Donald Trump’s preference for fossil fuels over green energy has long been plain, but the latest signs from Washington suggest something more than a rhetorical flourish. What was once dismissed
Economy1 week ago
The Future of Britain’s Horse Racing Industry: Development or Destruction?
In recent months, the landscape of British horse racing—a pivotal component of the nation’s cultural fabric—has been overshadowed by a series of proposed developments that many stakeholders deem a ‘horror

BusinessYesterday
Tate & Lyle takeover generates £163m fees bonanza for the City
The £2.7 billion takeover of Tate & Lyle by Ingredion has been greeted in the Square Mile with the sort of quiet satisfaction that rarely makes it into the deal
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3 weeks ago

The Rising Tide of Inflation: Analyzing the Economic Landscape Amid Geopolitical Turmoil

3 weeks ago

The Rise of Personalised Nutrition: Nourished's Ambitious Expansion into the U.S. Market

4 weeks ago

A Strong Jobs Report Raises Expectations for Interest Rate Hikes in the US

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1 month ago

Trump's Economic Strategies: Disarray Amidst a New Global Order

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1 month ago

GB News Under Scrutiny for Regulatory Breaches Following Trump Interview

1 month ago

The Future of Peace in the Middle East: Economic Implications of a Potential Iran Deal

BusinessYesterday
Death of the high street turns retail parks into hot property
For years, Britain’s retail parks were treated as functional afterthoughts: practical sheds on ring roads, useful for buying a sofa, a tin of paint, or a replacement tumble dryer, but
ClimateYesterday
Mark Carney pivots Canada back to oil and gas in net zero retreat
Mark Carney has spent much of his public life urging governments, banks and boardrooms to treat climate risk as financial risk. Now, as Canada’s prime minister, he is arguing that
AIYesterday
Elon Musk puts a weekly ceiling on Tesla’s appetite for external AI
Tesla employees have been told to curb their use of external artificial intelligence tools, after Elon Musk introduced a weekly limit of $200 (about £150) on spending with third-party AI
HealthYesterday
Prostate screening’s broken promise: why Britain is still waiting for a test that could save lives
Few public policy questions expose the uneasy seams between evidence, bureaucracy and human cost as sharply as cancer screening. Ministers promise to follow the science; committees promise to keep pace
UK Tax2 days ago
Manchester and Stansted set new passenger records as ministers risk taxing growth out of the skies
Manchester and Stansted have spent the past year doing what British aviation has become adept at since the pandemic: absorbing shocks, improvising around constraints, and still finding a way to

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Defence Industry2 days ago
The Defence Plan’s Missing Billions
The Government has chosen to sell its new defence settlement in the language of urgency and arithmetic. A single number has done much of the work: £15bn. That is the
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Investment9 hours ago
‘Buy back shares or we’ll escalate,’ housing giant warned
The revolt gathering pace inside Britain’s biggest housebuilder is not the usual grumble about executive pay or a poor quarter’s trading. It is a more fundamental argument about what a
Transport3 days ago
Lime’s return from the brink points to a harder, more durable future for urban transport
For much of the past decade, the business of electric scooters and hire bikes was treated as a curious blend of technological promise, venture capital bravado and municipal irritation. The
Business1 week ago
Shifting Investment Incentives: A Bold Proposal for British Business Growth
In a landscape characterised by economic challenge and uncertainty, the British Chambers of Commerce has amplified calls for a strategic reorientation of the country’s pension tax relief system. At a
Investment1 week ago
Private Jets: A Controversial Green Investment According to the EU's Second-Highest Court
In a ruling that has sparked considerable debate, the European Union’s second-highest court has deemed private jets as a form of green investment. This unexpected classification challenges conventional wisdom regarding
Investment1 week ago
London Property: A Haven for the World's Wealthy Despite Economic Turbulence
In a landscape marked by economic uncertainty and political turmoil, one might expect a significant retreat from the once golden allure of London property. However, the opposite has unfolded. The
Companies2 weeks ago
The Urgent Call for Investment Reform in the UK's Tech Industry
In a striking commentary, Greg Jackson, the chief executive of Octopus Energy, has implored the UK government to act with swiftness to reform investment policies, particularly those affecting pension funds.

Business2 days ago
Burnham’s Devolution Drive Risks Putting Britain on a Road to Disaster
The case for shifting power out of Westminster is almost always made in the language of fairness, but it is increasingly argued in the language of necessity. Britain’s economy has
AI2 days ago
OpenAI’s $43bn offer to Trump is a genius power play
There are moments in modern capitalism when a company’s most valuable product is not its code, its user base, or even its revenue prospects, but its positioning. In Silicon Valley,
Financial2 days ago
Wall Street titan drags feud with ex-trader into London’s courts
In the City, where careers are made on speed and secrecy, the most revealing battles are often fought long after the trades have settled. Citadel Securities, the formidable market-making arm
Business2 days ago
Issa brothers plot $9bn float for US petrol station chain
A decade ago, the Issa brothers were the sort of businessmen whose success was most easily measured in forecourts acquired and geography conquered. Now they are preparing for a different

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Banking2 days ago
Bank of England prepares curb on hedge fund leverage in the gilt market

Business3 days ago
BlueCrest tax defeat exposes a deeper argument over what Britain offers business
Michael Platt is not a man given to casual complaint. The BlueCrest founder has spent more than two decades in a rarefied corner of finance where grievance is usually expressed
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