It’s not often you see a supermarket make national news for not letting someone work for free. Usually the outrage runs in the other direction—“greedy corporations exploiting unpaid labour” and so on. But today’s piece in The Telegraph about Waitrose and Tom Boyd, a 27-year-old man with severe autism, has managed to flip that script entirely. And in doing so, ...
JCB has announced plans to invest £100 million in a major overhaul of its flagship Rocester plant in Staffordshire, in a move set to safeguard 8,000 UK jobs and bolster confidence in the nation’s struggling manufacturing sector. The project will transform the company’s historic UK headquarters — originally converted from a cheese factory in 1950 — into a state-of-the-art production ...
Hunter Biden was furious with former President Barack Obama for leading then-President Joe Biden offstage with a guiding hand at a June 2024 fundraiser, according to a new book from ABC News’ Jonathan Karl. An excerpt from the book, obtained by Axios, details how the younger Biden believed Obama had disrespected and embarrassed the president. ‘I almost jumped up on ...
The cyber attack that crippled Jaguar Land Rover’s operations has been confirmed as the most expensive in British history, with losses estimated at £1.9 billion, according to new analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC). The incident, which halted JLR production for five weeks from the start of September, disrupted around 5,000 organisations — including parts manufacturers, logistics providers, showrooms ...
Colombia’s former defense minister Juan Carlos Pinzón warned that the once-close U.S.–Colombia alliance has ‘collapsed’ under President Gustavo Petro, accusing the leftist leader of aligning with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and turning Colombia into a ‘narco-state.’ Pinzón, who is weighing a presidential run, told Fox News Digital he could ‘repair U.S.-Colombian relations in a week’ and urged international oversight of Colombia’s ...
For nearly a decade, conservatives have argued President Donald Trump and his allies have been targeted by federal law enforcement agencies. The media and so-called intel experts tried to convince us that Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake news and the Steele Dossier was God’s honest truth. Why? Because of deep political bias against Trump. Rather than sweep these injustices under ...
UK inflation held steady at 3.8 per cent in September, confounding expectations of a rise and increasing the likelihood that the Bank of England could cut interest rates before the end of the year. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed consumer price inflation (CPI) unchanged from August, and below the 4 per cent forecast by the Bank ...
Allica Bank has acquired Kriya, the award-winning SME lending fintech formerly known as MarketFinance, in a move that marks the UK’s fastest-growing fintech’s entry into the embedded payments market and signals its ambition to deliver £1 billion of SME working capital finance by 2028. The acquisition strengthens Allica’s position in the SME finance sector by combining its growing business lending ...
A group of House Republicans is raising concerns about the potential effects of the U.S. importing Argentinian beef after President Donald Trump floated the idea earlier this week. Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., is leading seven other House GOP lawmakers in a letter to the president on Tuesday evening, warning the potential plan has rattled the multibillion-dollar American ranching industry. ‘America’s ...
Former first son Hunter Biden is claiming that his father only pardoned him because Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency in November 2024 — and ‘would not have’ done so under ‘normal circumstances’ while the appeals process played out. ‘Donald Trump went and changed everything,’ Hunter said in an interview released Monday on journalist Tommy Christopher’s Substack platform. ‘And I don’t ...