Founded three years ago by Sarah Austin, Empowered Events, has swiftly risen to prominence in the world of large-scale event management. Their company’s flagship project, the British Business Excellence Awards—sponsored by Lloyds Bank—has become the UK’s largest and most respected annual business awards programme. Yet behind the scenes, Empowered Events faced a significant challenge: how to enhance the judging process ...
David Inserra This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. US tech policies have allowed innovation and speech to flourish in the United States, with large titans of industry, a vibrant culture of tech start-ups, and consumers who have benefited immensely from the constant improvements. And the benefits of this flourishing have spread across the ...
Harland & Wolff, the historic UK shipbuilder famed for constructing the Titanic, is on the brink of a £70 million rescue deal with Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia. The agreement, supported by the British government, is expected to preserve more than 1,000 jobs across the company’s four UK sites: Belfast, Methil, Arnish, and Appledore. The board of Navantia is set to ...
Honda and Nissan, two of Japan’s largest carmakers, are reportedly set to begin discussions on a potential merger as they grapple with fierce competition in the fast-evolving electric vehicle (EV) landscape Both companies released near-identical statements confirming that they are exploring ways to deepen collaboration and would update stakeholders in due course. While neither announced merger talks directly, the reports ...
Things might be moving on the hostage front. Hezbollah has decoupled itself from Hamas in agreeing to a cease-fire. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has returned again to the region for discussion. Qatar kicked Hamas out and said it wanted to reengage on hostage and ceasefire negotiations. Donald Trump named a hostage special envoy and issued a statement warning that there ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be asked to explain some of his beliefs about farming and food production by Republicans who are protective of the agricultural industry in their states. This could stand in the way of a smooth confirmation if he doesn’t manage to address their concerns. ‘They’ve got to be able to use modern farming techniques, and that ...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett A government funding deadline is approaching this Friday, December 20, and congressional leadership appears poised to punt the annual funding debate to March with a stopgap funding measure. Disaster aid is at the heart of the current impasse. President Biden requested nearly $100 billion in emergency funding in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton ...
Barclays has lost a pivotal legal challenge that strengthens the position of car finance customers seeking compensation for mis-sold loans. In a ruling with far-reaching implications for UK lenders, the High Court rejected the bank’s judicial review of a Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) decision, potentially opening the floodgates to billions of pounds in claims. At the heart of the case ...
UK inflation climbed to 2.6% in November, fresh data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed, exceeding both the Bank of England’s forecast of 2.4% and the 2.3% recorded in October. The surprise jump marks the second consecutive monthly increase, pushing the headline figure even further above the central bank’s 2% target. The acceleration in price growth has reinforced ...
Smaller UK exporters have been hit hardest by new post-Brexit barriers, contributing to a £27 billion shortfall in goods sales to the European Union since Britain left the bloc’s single market and customs union. Research from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics reveals that Brexit led to a 6.4% drop in the UK’s global exports ...