Twitter has launched a new platform to support writers move from micro-blogging to longer-form pieces, with posts of 10,000 characters permitted. The Elon Musk-owned social media giant announced the launch of Twitter Write on Friday, offering “improvements to the writing ...
The Government’s drive to get Britons to install heat pumps in their home was today branded ‘shameful’ and an ’embarrassment’ after missing its installations target. Fewer than 10,000 pumps have been installed in England and Wales during the first year ...
The CBI’s time has passed and it is no longer fit for purpose, according to former Barclays’ director Baroness Wheatcroft. The peer said it was “increasingly difficult” for the business lobby group to represents the likes of both Amazon and ...
UK regulators have imposed an £81,000 fine on a former TSB information officer over the bank’s IT meltdown in 2018 that left millions of customers locked out of their accounts. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) said Carlos Abarca, who was ...
A greater proportion of the UK population than before the recent series of economic shocks may need to be unemployed in order to keep a lid on inflation, the Bank of England’s chief economist has claimed today. Huw Pill, who ...
The trade deficit widened in February as export volumes declined to more than 9 per cent below the 2019 pre-pandemic average. Exports fell to a greater extent than imports, pushing the deficit to £4.8 billion in February, up from £3.5 ...
Two in five mothers feel prohibited from returning to work due to the high cost of childcare, even with Jeremy Hunt’s expanded childcare offering, a new survey of mothers has revealed. “Nursery and childminder costs can swallow a huge chunk ...
Lenders expect to ease the supply of new mortgages in the coming quarter, according to the Bank of England’s latest study of bank intentions. There was little evidence in the survey of a wider or deeper credit crunch, but the ...
Among the many facts of modern life that are accepted without question by most ordinary people is that it is somehow perfectly natural, expected, and unremarkable that every sovereign state should have its own currency. We see this everywhere in ...
HANOI – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visits Vietnam this week hoping for progress towards upgrading relations with a key trade partner that shares US worries about China’s growing might. For Hanoi, it will be a delicate test: how to show ...