The UK has long been a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research, pioneering breakthroughs in areas like healthcare, financial modelling and cybersecurity. The Government’s AI Action Plan and recent investments highlight a clear ambition to establish the UK as a global AI superpower. However, ambition alone is not enough. The UK is ranked among the top five nations in the ...
Vodafone has terminated the contracts of 12 current franchisees who are among a group of 62 business owners pursuing a £120 million High Court claim against the telecoms giant, intensifying a bitter and long-running legal battle over alleged mistreatment within its UK retail network. The decision comes more than two years after franchisees first accused the FTSE 100 company of ...
The question of a ‘day after’ plan in the Gaza Strip has plagued negotiations between Israel, the U.S., Arab nations and Hamas for months and has ultimately led to the terrorist network’s refusal to release the 55 hostages still held there. However, foreign policy leaders and security experts based in Washington may have the key that could provide a solution ...
In quite possibly the sharpest regulatory U-turn thus far in 2025, the Trump Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to roll back home appliance regulations as aggressively as the Biden administration created them. Homeowners will benefit greatly if this effort is successful. Dialing back the appliance red tape ought to be a slam dunk given the consumer dislike of government ...
President Donald Trump issued a full-throated endorsement of Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., backing the lawmaker for re-election less than half a year into the freshman House member’s first term in office. ‘Abe Hamadeh has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election – HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!’ the president declared in a Truth Social post in which he described ...
On October 7, 2023, like many around the world, I awoke to news of the horrific attacks perpetrated by Hamas against more than 1,200 innocent Israeli, American and other civilians who that day were doing nothing other than going about their lives. The television newscasts were bone-chilling – pictures of mutilated babies; of fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers slain in front ...
In 1823, President James Monroe drew a firm line in the sand: the Western Hemisphere would be closed to further European interference and, most importantly, America’s primary domain of industrial, political, and military control. The Monroe Doctrine, while audacious, proved effective and laid the groundwork for the Western Hemisphere as America’s stepping stone to the rest of the world. America ...
Britain’s biggest retailers are bracing for a sharp rise in property tax bills as government reforms to the business rates system threaten to add £600 million in costs across the sector, with London’s West End and major supermarket chains among the worst hit. According to analysis by property consultancy Colliers, changes due to take effect from April 2026 will see ...
Richard Caring has apologised to suppliers of his restaurant businesses after a letter was sent out informing them there would be a “mandatory” 2.5 per cent cut to their invoices. Caring’s restaurant empire, which includes The Ivy Collection and Bills, wrote to suppliers earlier this month telling them that “to ensure our business can remain strong” a 2.5 per cent ...
British manufacturers are retreating from the United States as a key export market in the face of growing trade uncertainty and punitive tariffs driven by former President Donald Trump’s protectionist agenda. For the first time in the history of Make UK’s quarterly survey, the US has fallen out of the top three regions where UK manufacturers expect to do business. ...