The UK’s dominant services sector continued its growth streak last month as consumers kept spending on leisure and technology. Survey data from services companies, known as the purchasing managers’ index (PMI), hit 55.2 in May, down a little from April’s ...
Here in the West, particularly in countries such as the United States and Canada, we have experienced radical political and cultural changes over the past several years, and the pace of these changes seems to have accelerated since 2020. In ...
Radical environmentalists have convinced people that we are doomed if we continue to use fossil fuels. We are doomed if we stop using them. Original Article: “Energy and Economic Efficiency: The Market versus the Politicization of Our Energy Futures” ...
The Republic of Ireland’s domestic economy recovered strongly in the first quarter of 2023, official data suggests. Output, as measured by modified domestic demand (MDD), expanded by 2.7% compared to the final quarter of 2022. It had fallen in the ...
British Airways (BA) has revealed all its staff who are paid in the UK have been caught up in a cyber incident that has exposed personal data including bank and contact details to hackers. It emerged last week that a ...
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has announced a new Business Council, comprised of prominent UK business leaders, to design and drive the future of the British economy. The founding partners will be uniquely placed to shape the BCC’s policy ...
A group of MPs have called for the appointment of a dedicated “crypto tsar” to oversee plans to turn the UK into a digital asset hub today, as stark divisions emerge in parliament over the future direction and role of ...
New car registrations have risen for the tenth month in a row, the market’s best run of consecutive growth in eight years, with the reinvestment in car fleets offsetting a still-subdued private buyer market. In May 145,000 new cars were ...
The need to keep pace with competitors is the primary factor motivating office landlords to make sustainability improvements, latest research shows. infinitSpace, the creator of white-label, tech-enabled, flexible workspaces, and The Instant Group, the largest global marketplace for flexible workspace ...
In its latest survey, an overwhelming majority of IoD members favoured the development of a meaningful industrial strategy aimed at defining specific long-term priorities for the UK economy. Less than 10% of members felt that UK economic development should be ...