WTO cancels summit with 164 governments as concerns over new Covid variant grow November 27, 2021 Following new travel restrictions in Switzerland, following the emergence of a worrying new coronavirus variant, the World Trade Organisation has cancelled its conference of government ministers set to open on Tuesday in Geneva. The MC12 conference at WTO headquarters in Geneva was set to take up key issues such as a long-awaited agreement on subsidies [...]
Rugby: The new laws, rules and guidelines referees will now use January 5, 2023 Rugby is a game of constant rule changes and 2023 is no different with a number of new guidelines coming into the sport to speed up the game. As of 1 January this year, referees have been handed a bunch of new directives in order to make rugby more understandable and watchable. So what’s coming [...]
Liz Truss weighs up £100bn plan to freeze record energy bills September 5, 2022 Liz Truss is expected to unveil a vast support package to deal with surging energy costs, as first reported in The Times.
Oil giants slump as Trump EU travel ban makes COVID-19 and price war effect worse March 12, 2020 Oil company shares have sunk today after the Brent crude price sunk below $34 a barrel, as the market absorbs news of President Trump’s travel ban. Shares in BP have fallen 11.18 per cent to 280p and those of Shell are also down 11.15 per cent at 1,165p. Tullow oil and TransGlobe Energy released results [...]
Greggs: Baker on a sausage roll as it plots further expansion across UK January 5, 2023 Greggs has said it is on track for 150 net new stores this year as its value-proposition protects it from a wider consumer down-turn. In a fourth quarter trading update, the sausage-roll seller said its sales stood at £1.5bn, as the firm bounced back after experiencing pandemic-related disruption last Christmas. Sales had surged 23 per [...]
Next: Prices to rise in the spring – but boss hopeful inflation will ease in second half January 5, 2023 Next has warned it will lift prices further in the spring as the retailer’s chief said he was optimistic that inflation would let up in the second-half of the year. The fashion firm hiked its full-year profit guidance after seeing better than expected sales over the Christmas shopping period. The high street staple lifted its [...]
The Tories won’t redesign the NHS but they could get rid of the bottlenecks August 21, 2023 We have long since past the point where we will fundamentally change a free-at-point-of-care system, but the Conservatives can deal with the bottlenecks, writes Eliot Wilson.
Babcock recovers from heavy pandemic losses with £400m disposals plan and UK contracts December 7, 2021 Babcock has recovered from heavy losses to report an operating profit of £75.4m, following a £400m disposal plan and a growing contract backlog.
Nation of hungry entrepreneurs: Two in three UK employees plan to launch their own business January 22, 2022 A record two in three British employees plan to start their own business at some point in the future, a jump of more than 10 per cent compared to a year ago, according to new data shared with City A.M. this morning. In fact, one in ten Brits don’t want to wait and plan to [...]
Labour and Tory governments shun £500bn of investment for UK economy since 2000 March 30, 2023 Britain has missed out on £500bn of public investment this century as a result of successive Labour and Conservative governments trimming capital spending to balance the books, a new report out today claims. Since the turn of the millennium, the UK has injected around 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) of public investment [...]