We’re almost one month on from the Spring Budget and into a new tax year, and whilst many businesses are celebrating the close of a successful first quarter, others are still reeling from the lack of support for UK business ...
Three major budget fashion brands in the UK, ASOS, Boohoo, and George at Asda, have committed to changing the way they communicate the environmental impact of their clothing following intervention by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA emphasised ...
Critics of Boeing are blaming free markets and the profit and loss system for recent safety failures. However, Boeing hardly operates in a free market anymore, given that half its revenues come from taxpayers. ...
The chief executive of Centrica, Chris O’Shea, saw a substantial increase in his annual pay, rising by nearly £4 million, despite his earlier assertion that such a salary was unjustifiable. O’Shea’s total pay for 2023 amounted to £8.2 million, a ...
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that the organization has employed gagging clauses to silence staff from discussing their encounters with sexual misconduct and bullying within the institution. According to sources, up ...
Barclays has announced that its payment systems and banking app are now fully operational after experiencing glitches that began on Tuesday evening. The bank issued an apology for the disruption in payments into and out of the accounts of some ...
Parliament has boosted its IT budget by only £6.5m in the last financial year as MPs and peers face a barrage of cyber attacks from China, according to official figures. Data obtained under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act by ...
As buyers (whether that’s B2B or B2C) we’re increasingly savvy. Far from making purchasing decisions alone, we trawl the web in search of trust signals from the brands we may want to buy from, harnessing other people’s experiences, industry credentials, and ...
When someone makes the “roads” argument for the presence of government, they fail to point out that the final government product is substandard and often a hazard to people who use those roads. There is a better way. ...
New York City’s government has imposed draconian rent controls. The natural outcome, as economists note, has been massive shortages, as apartment owners no longer have an incentive to rent empty apartments. ...