The English sparkling wine harvest has begun earlier than at any point in living memory, with Nyetimber picking its first Chardonnay grapes on 14 September, a date that rewrites the
The England overnight visitor levy, set to be formally announced by the government on Thursday, would hand mayors and other strategic authority leaders an uncapped power to charge tourists a
The John Lewis Partnership losses for the 26 weeks ended 1 August 2026 reached a pre-tax figure of £124m, up from £88m in the same period a year earlier, as
The AP News Anthropic AI extinction warning landed not from a boardroom briefing but from a park bench in San Francisco's Alamo Square, where researcher Jacob Coxon posted his resignation
The NATS air traffic control failure that paralysed British skies on 8 September was, at its technical core, the work of a millisecond. A software defect in the system that
Brent crude above $100 a barrel is back, and this time the reasons are harder to dismiss as temporary. The international benchmark topped $101 on Wednesday, rising more than 3%
The Anthropic AI extinction risk debate has moved from theoretical to uncomfortably personal: a senior safety researcher at the company has stated publicly that he believes there is a greater
The NATS technical failure that cancelled more than 1,300 flights to and from UK airports has now triggered an independent regulatory review, as the full scale of the disruption (and
The Compass Burnham wealth tax plan sits at the heart of a 230-page policy document published ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first budget this autumn, setting out what a genuinely
A NATS software defect outage on 8 September 2026 cancelled more than 1,000 flights by 8pm, according to The Guardian, as the air traffic control provider's third major systems failure
Canada's retaliatory tariffs on roughly C$27.6 billion worth of American goods came into force at 12:01 a.m. on 8 September 2026, according to a briefing by Husch Blackwell's International Trade
Chris Rokos leaves UK for Greece, reports confirmed on Sunday, in a move that strips the Treasury of up to £330 million in annual tax revenue from the hedge fund
The Energy Now report that first confirmed the Jazan refinery attack as a shutdown event has since been borne out in grim detail: Saudi Aramco closed the Jazan facility on
The Opening Shift retail scheme launched in September 2026 with a target of 100,000 work placements for young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) by the end of
The decision to withhold public money from Jaguar Land Rover over the JLR job cuts announced this week is, frankly, one of the easier calls Jonathan Reynolds has had to