Investors reach for the bottle as inflation soars August 9, 2022 Nervous investors are turning to wine as a steady store of value as inflation climbs.
Starmer hails ‘seismic’ Scotland by-election win as pressure mounts on SNP October 6, 2023 Sir Keir Starmer has hailed a “seismic result” for Labour after his party overwhelmingly won Scotland’s first recall by-election. Labour candidate Michael Shanks won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat after securing more than twice the votes of his SNP rival Katy Loudon. The result will pile more pressure on SNP leader and Scottish First [...]
Royal Mail boss pushes back against claims union members intimidated during strike days November 30, 2022 Royal Mail chief Simon Thompson pushes back against claims that union members are being intimidated as strike action continues today. Speaking on Sky News this morning, the delivery boss said: “On strike action days we’ve seen some extraordinary behaviours,” including allegations of sexism, racism and threats of violence. Thompson said it is not something Royal [...]
Who wants to be a trillionaire? Musk in the race as Tesla profits hit record October 21, 2021 Morgan Stanley analysts believe Tesla’s founder and chief executive Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire after the company’s results hit records, the Telegraph reported. The company’s revenues jumped 57 per cent to $13.7bn, with an operating income of $2bn and a 30 per cent increase in automotive gross margin while its shares more [...]
iPhone 15 Pro Max review: Light, camera, action September 29, 2023 In a smartphone landscape where iterative improvements are the best you can really hope for, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is one hell of an iterative improvement. It takes the powerhouse of the iPhone range and supercharges it through innovative use of new materials, substantial hardware upgrades and those little quality of life tweaks that [...]
Twitter sale could be agreed as early as today as Elon Musk enters ‘final stretch’ of negotiations April 25, 2022 Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations in its sale to Elon Musk, with a deal potentially being reached as early as today. As reported by Bloomberg, the social media firm is hammering out the terms of a transaction, according to inside sources. On April 14, the eccentric billionaire announced an offer to buy the [...]
Worldwide excitement as stunned space researchers discover black hole outside our galaxy July 18, 2022 A stellar-mass black hole has been observed in a neighbouring galaxy by a team of international scientists. The newly found black hole is at least nine times the mass of the Sun, and orbits a hot, blue star weighing 25 times the Sun’s mass. The dormant black hole sits outside the Milky Way. The star [...]
Eurovision: Ukraine victorious, United Kingdom comes second May 15, 2022 The United Kingdom had a remarkable showing at the Eurovision song contest, coming in second place and narrowly missing out to hot favourites Ukraine. Sam Ryder swept to the dramatic win with the jury, after his Spaceman track wowed the audience getting 283 points. His performance received the maximum 12 points from countries including Ukraine, [...]
Emerging Technologies: Unveiling the Future of AI, VR, AR, and Blockchain September 21, 2023 Technology is always advancing at a steady pace, but sometimes it takes a great leap forward. Now, looking around at some of the technology we have today, it feels like quite a few of these great leaps have occurred very recently. We have artificial intelligence doing things even science fiction writers hadn’t imagined, while both [...]
Tesla posts record profits as Elon Musk stands to gain $23bn windfall April 21, 2022 Tesla has seemingly won the hearts of drivers looking to go green, as rising prices has stopped short of putting off consumers from making the leap. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) company enjoyed record profits of $3.3bn (£2.5bn) in the first thee months of the year, despite inflationary headwinds. In its first quarter update published [...]