Prime Minister Keir Starmer has outlined a sweeping vision for the UK to become the world leader in artificial intelligence, pledging a distinctively British approach to regulation while unleashing AI’s potential to revive the country’s sluggish economy. Unveiling the government’s ...
Virgin Group, led by Sir Richard Branson, is preparing to order a dozen high-speed trains—worth an estimated £500 million—as it pushes to become the first competitor to Eurostar on services through the Channel Tunnel. Project leader Phil Whittingham confirmed that ...
The 2024 winner of the BBC’s The Apprentice, Rachel Woolford, has unveiled plans for her debut collaboration with Lord Alan Sugar—an extension to her North Studio fitness enterprise in Leeds, designed to meet surging demand for Reformer Pilates. Woolford, 28, ...
Concerns are escalating over the future of Northern Ireland’s largest private employer, with 2,700 jobs at risk at Spirit Aerosystems’ Belfast factory. The site’s predicament stems from complications in a takeover deal involving Boeing, which agreed to acquire Spirit, and ...
The Federal Reserve has welcomed the New Year by more of the same. As government spending continues to explode, the Fed enables it with its usual financial tricks. ...
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is once again inviting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from across the country to compete in its Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards, with entries open until 9 March. This ...
British manufacturing giant JCB has backtracked on plans to convert 500 agency staff to permanent positions, citing “challenging market conditions” in the wake of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s recent tax-raising Budget. The decision comes as businesses across the country grapple with ...
Traders are increasingly betting on a significant drop in the pound as concerns mount over the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s ability to stick to her fiscal targets following a sharp rise in borrowing costs. According to Bloomberg, many so-called options trades ...
There’s a certain clairvoyance required of a great satirist, an almost supernatural knack for holding up a mirror to society and forcing us to see the grotesque reflection that lurks behind our glossy veneers. Whilst always being a centrist politically, ...
Britain’s chemicals industry faces an “extinction event” amid soaring energy prices and rising carbon taxes, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has warned, after announcing the closure of Ineos’s last remaining synthetic ethanol plant in the UK. The shutdown of the Grangemouth facility, ...