The Alphabet AI spending spree that rattled markets this week produced something investors had not seen from the Google parent in at least a decade: negative free cash flow. According
The pub business rates cut announced by Andy Burnham this week is better than nothing, which is roughly where the bar had been set. A 20% reduction on business rates
A millionaires wealth tax letter signed by 120 well-off Britons, including Gary Lineker, Brian Eno and actor Simon Pegg, landed on Andy Burnham's desk this week with a demand that
The FareShare North East burglary that struck the charity's Middlesbrough warehouse this week destroyed 16 tonnes of food, the equivalent of 7,000 meals, after thieves cut the power to its
The OpenAI rogue AI attack on Hugging Face was not a conventional intrusion. It was driven, from start to finish, by an autonomous AI agent that inferred where to strike,
The Aston Martin £550m loan announced on Wednesday buys the Gaydon carmaker time, but it does not buy it a clean bill of health. The money comes from HPS Investment
The UK inflation rate outlook is considerably less comfortable than June's headline figure suggests. Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation fell to 2.6% in the year to June 2026, down from
The AI job displacement risk is no longer a theoretical worry for economists to debate at conferences. It is showing up in employment data, in hiring statistics, and in the
The £2 bus fare cap is coming back to England from 1 January 2027, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on Wednesday, in a policy his government says will cost more
The Canada 50% tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week carry a legal signature that matters more than the headline rate: they were signed under Section 338 of the
Tüyap will host Foodist İstanbul in September. With the aim of ranking among the top three fairs in the world, and with the industry’s support, the fair will contribute to
UK government borrowing in June came in at £16bn, fractionally below the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecast of £16.3bn, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Andy Burnham's first significant act as prime minister is an electricity VAT cut that will zero-rate domestic electricity bills from 1 October, removing the existing 5% levy and saving a
John Healey's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 20 July 2026 says rather a lot about how Andy Burnham intends to govern, and not all of it is comfortable
The AliExpress EU fine of €550m (£467m), handed down by the European Commission, is the largest penalty yet imposed under the Digital Services Act (DSA), and the detail behind it