McDonald’s UK has lost one of its most aptly named executives, with Zoe Hamburger stepping down after just 18 months as senior vice president and chief restaurant officer. Hamburger, who joined the UK leadership team in 2024, was responsible for overseeing franchising and delivery operations across Britain. She has now been promoted to managing director of McDonald’s Netherlands. Her name ...
The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) has secured a new four-year funding commitment from Research England to boost collaboration between academia and industry. The funding, which builds on the support of NCUB’s university and business members, will underpin an ambitious Forward Plan aimed at making the UK more competitive, more collaborative, and better prepared for future economic and ...
Gold prices could surge to almost $5,000 an ounce if Donald Trump’s continued attacks on the US Federal Reserve weaken the central bank’s independence, according to a forecast from Goldman Sachs. The precious metal is already trading near record highs, with spot prices at $3,545.39 an ounce, up more than 35 per cent this year as investors and banks pile ...
Ashley Biden, daughter of former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, wrote on social media that it was ‘one of the hardest summers of my life.’ The post comes after a summer during which the former first daughter faced two main challenges: her divorce and her father’s cancer diagnosis. ‘August 2025. The summer of 2025 was one ...
Senate Republicans are grappling with President Donald Trump’s move to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding and what the ramifications could be on the looming deadline to fund the government. Senate Democrats previously warned after the GOP’s first go-round with clawbacks that any further attempt to gut congressionally-approved funding would be a red line, and that it could lead ...
A group of anonymous federal judges is criticizing the Supreme Court for overturning lower court rulings and siding with President Donald Trump’s administration with little to no explanation, NBC News reported Thursday. NBC spoke with 12 federal judges, appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents including Trump, who pointed to a trend of lower court decisions being overturned by emergency rulings ...
The balance of power in European football has shifted once again after a record-breaking summer transfer window, with seven clubs now boasting squads valued at more than €1 billion. The surge marks a dramatic rise from just three sides surpassing that threshold last year, underlining how spending and on-pitch success continue to reshape the financial hierarchy of the sport. According ...
A practising barrister has been publicly named by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as a promoter of tax avoidance schemes – the first time a legal professional has appeared on the government’s official list. HMRC said Setu Kamal, a barrister with 20 years’ experience, designed four arrangements marketed through umbrella companies that claimed to reduce workers’ Income Tax and National ...
President Donald Trump’s America First trade agenda is working, and China is feeling the heat. While the legacy media has spent months lying about slow growth, Trump’s tariff agenda is already reshaping how the U.S. competes with China — and America’s industrial and agricultural sectors are benefiting as a result. New tariff protections are prompting the reshoring of critical production ...
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to consider a package of wealth taxes in the autumn budget, arguing that extra revenue is needed to boost public services and demonstrate that Labour is delivering change. Paul Nowak, TUC general secretary, told the BBC that ministers should not “take anything off the table”, including a conventional wealth tax, ...