Long-term sickness: How worsening mental health is holding back the economy May 4, 2024 Economic inactivity, driven by long-term sickness, is fast becoming one of the most pressing challenges facing the UK economy.
Forget Reform, it’s the Lib Dems the Tories need to worry about August 5, 2024 The Lib Dems took a record number of seats in the general election, ousting four Cabinet ministers.
A rollercoaster ride of experiences at the Bitcoin Conference in Miami, where a little corner of Bedford offered hope May 23, 2023 Susie Violet Ward reports back from an eventful Miami where contrasts were shocking and inspiration was provided by Peter McCormack.
Is America’s ‘woke backlash’ a warning? July 22, 2024 With Microsoft scrapping a DEI team and Elon Musk moving to Texas, is the tide turning on the ‘woke’ agenda – and should businesses pay attention? Asks Eliot Wilson When America sneezes, Britain catches a cold. It is an idea that became popular after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, when the fall in New [...]
How BBC host Emma Barnett and her husband are colouring in the streets of London June 18, 2024 How BBC presenter Emma Barnett and her husband Jeremy Weil turned an art project into a growing side hustle
Our complacency on China blinded us to the probability of spies in Parliament September 13, 2023 Why are we all so surprised that Beijing would want to place a spy in Parliament?
‘We want to put on a show’: England’s Hannah Botterman on Women’s Six Nations March 22, 2024 The England prop explains why photo shoots can help the Red Roses bloom.
Why 2021 was such a favourable year for electric cars February 19, 2022 In the words of Erik Fairbairn, chief executive of LSE listed electric vehicle (EV) Pod Point, 2021 was the year electric cars became a mass market. Not only did his company post record profits in the first results since its IPO but, overall, the industry has boomed in the last 12 months. EV output emerged [...]
Broadband gloves are off: Virgin Media O2’s £31bn post-merger data war with BT’s EE has begun October 20, 2021 Virgin Media O2 has kicked off its expected broadband and mobile data battle with British Telecom, with analysts welcoming the increased competition. Customers of both Virgin Media and O2 will see their pay monthly mobile data allowance to be doubled, while broadband speeds will be upgraded to the next available tier, free of charge. It [...]
A battle is brewing in No10 over AI regulation February 16, 2024 An increasing number of MPs are getting frustrated over the government dragging its heels on regulating AI - a technology it has identified as a potential “existential threat”.