Nasa has just launched its latest spacecraft to Mars, Insight, to measure ‘Marsquakes’ May 5, 2018 Nasa today launched a rocket headed to Mars with the Insight probe on board, in a mission to measure quakes on the red planet. The US space agency worked through the Californian fog at the Vandenberg Air Force Base to get the Atlas V rocket, which is carrying Nasa’s Insight probe, into the air at [...]
May’s gamble: Prime Minister faces backlash on Brexit plans July 8, 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May faces a crunch meeting tomorrow as she attempts to keep her party onside amid grumblings of a leadership challenge and a growing backlash over her newly-revealed Brexit negotiating position. May will meet Conservative backbenchers on the party’s powerful 1922 Committee to try to persuade them to back the plan, which would [...]
A sovereign wealth fund could diffuse the UK’s debt timebomb June 13, 2018 There’s a hint of sunshine peeping out from behind the grey clouds of austerity. After eight long years of belt-tightening, we’re living within our means at last. Our taxes cover our day-to-day spending on things like health, education, policing and defence, so we’re only having to borrow to invest in long-term infrastructure like roads and [...]
Here are the nine biggest new game announcements from E3 2018 June 13, 2018 This year's E3 conference in Los Angeles ushered in some fresh announcements alongside a raft of previously revealed games. As the show draws to a close, here's a selection of the biggest trailers from E3 2018. CyberPunk 2077 Release date: 2019 on PS4, XBO and PC Polish studio CD Projekt Red is best known [...]
Peter Rabbit review: Highly irritating bunnies ruin a charming rom-com loosely based on Beatrix Potter’s book March 16, 2018 From Paddington to the Big Friendly Giant, British children’s literature is killing it at the box office. It was only a matter of time, then, before someone snapped up the film rights to Beatrix Potter and her merry band of trouserless critters. It’s attracted some big stars, too; Sam Neill as the ultimate nimby Farmer [...]
From vicars to City titans: Goldman Sachs, Shell and Barclays among names behind £550m Lloyds legal battle | City A.M. April 4, 2018 Today City A.M. reveals the varied and surprising names behind a massive £550m legal battle with Lloyds over its takeover of HBOS at the height of the financial crisis – and the cast includes major institutions, aristocrats, vicars and politicians. The groups, which includes institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Nomura Asset Management and pension funds [...]
Crop of London’s fastest-growing women-led tech startups chosen for Silicon Valley trade mission meeting Google and Facebook executives May 3, 2018 A crop of the capital’s fastest-growing tech startups led by women are headed off on a trade mission to Silicon Valley next week to explore investment, expansion and export opportunities in the US. The four-day trade mission led by the mayor’s international business programme and Silicon Valley Comes to the UK will give the 15 [...]
Jaguar Land Rover to cut UK car production in the coming months amid Brexit fears January 22, 2018 Jaguar Land Rover is to slash production amid Brexit fears and a government crackdown on diesel cars. There will be a reduction in the number of cars rolling off the ramps at JLR’s Halewood plant situated close to Liverpool. JLR said today “temporary adjustments” to production schedules would commence in the second quarter of 2018. [...]
Australian Grand Prix 2018: Lewis Hamilton blames Mercedes after team gaffe hands rival Sebastian Vettel win in season opener March 25, 2018 Dismayed Lewis Hamilton laid the blame squarely at the feet of his Mercedes team after their apparent miscalculation allowed his chief rival Sebastian Vettel to win the first race of the new Formula One season. Vettel capitalised on a virtual safety car period to overtake reigning champion Hamilton in the pit lane – a manoeuvre [...]
A Home Office that can’t handle Windrush is not fit for purpose April 19, 2018 Leading MEP Guy Verhofstadt is a troublemaker when it comes to Brexit, set on making life difficult for Britain as it leaves EU, often via the medium of Twitter. The vast majority of the time, his insights into UK politics should be taken either with an industrial container of salt, or better yet ignored completely. [...]