Global business leaders are becoming increasingly paralysed by a relentless cycle of crises, with their excessive caution now posing a significant threat to growth, according to BDO’s Global Risk Landscape Report 2025. The annual report, based on a survey of 500 C-suite executives at firms with revenues over $100 million, reveals that 84% of decision-makers believe the global risk environment ...
Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled a £1 billion investment package aimed at scaling up the UK’s computing power twentyfold, in a major push to solidify Britain’s status as a global technology and artificial intelligence leader. Opening London Tech Week this morning, the prime minister said the investment would form part of the government’s long-term ambition to be “the best state ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! By all appearances, the world is edging perilously close to the brink of a catastrophic global conflict. In just the past few days, five deeply troubling developments have emerged — each significant on its own — but taken together, they form a pattern too urgent to dismiss. Viewed in context, these events ...
The number of inheritance tax (IHT) investigations launched by HM Revenue & Customs has soared by more than a third over the past year, as the government intensifies efforts to crack down on underpayment and boost Treasury revenues. New figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request by accountancy firm Price Bailey reveal that HMRC opened 4,171 formal IHT investigations ...
Electric vehicle charge point operator Believ has secured £300 million in funding to install at least 30,000 public EV chargers across the UK, in a move that cements its position as one of the country’s best-backed providers and significantly boosts Britain’s charging infrastructure. The investment—led by Believ’s joint owners Liberty Global and Zouk Capital, along with four major banks: Santander, ...
Senior US and Chinese officials are meeting in London today for high-level talks aimed at easing trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies, amid growing market optimism and mounting pressure from slowing export growth and political unrest. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, is expected to be joined by top aides from President Trump’s administration as they sit down ...
British dads are being called to take part in the world’s first “Dad strike” this week, as growing frustration over the UK’s lack of meaningful paternity support reaches a tipping point. Organised by campaign group the Dad Shift, the protest will see fathers and babies gather outside the Department for Business and Trade in London on 11 June to demand ...
Workers undergoing IVF treatment should be legally entitled to paid fertility leave and flexible working arrangements, the GMB union has declared at its annual congress in Brighton. A motion passed on Sunday calls for new legislation to protect the rights of parents going through fertility treatment, amid growing concern that current employment policies are failing to support the thousands of ...
The Bank of England has dismissed calls from Reform UK to end interest payments to commercial banks on reserves, despite mounting political pressure over what critics claim is a vast and unnecessary drain on the public purse. In a letter to the Bank’s governor, Andrew Bailey, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice (Pictured) accused Threadneedle Street of “enriching City institutions” ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the leading opponents of President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ declared not even the commander in chief will be able to deter him from speaking out against what he sees as a bill that falls short of Republicans’ goal of cutting government waste. ‘It’ll completely backfire on him,’ Sen. Ron ...