Virgin Media O2 is set to become the first UK mobile network to offer customers automatic satellite connectivity in areas with no phone signal, after striking a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The new service, O2 Satellite, will launch in the first half of 2026, giving users coverage in rural and remote regions where terrestrial masts are unavailable. The company ...
More than 100 business and charity leaders have signed an open letter calling on ministers to “lead the country’s transition toward a shorter working week”, amid a growing row over the future of the four-day week in local government. The letter, coordinated by the 4 Day Week Foundation, comes after Steve Reed, the local government secretary, criticised South Cambridgeshire District ...
Matthew Cavedon On October 9, Notre Dame political science professor Daniel Philpott delivered the Fourth Annual Lecture on Catholic Political Thought at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Philpott lectured on the definition of justice, drawing on his work as an activist promoting reconciliation in settings ranging from Kashmir and East Africa to the Catholic Church sex abuse ...
Jennifer Huddleston For many people, restrictions on the freedom to share their opinions online and listen to their favorite podcasts without government permission may seem like something out of a dystopian novel or horror movie. Increasingly, however, lawmakers in countries with time-honored traditions of respecting free speech have worked to pass legislation, though well-intentioned, aimed at protecting young people online ...
Virgin Group has been given the regulatory go-ahead to move forward with plans to operate a new international train service through the Channel Tunnel, paving the way for the first serious competition on the route in three decades. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) confirmed on Thursday that Virgin can proceed with its bid to use the Temple Mills ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is weighing plans to scrap the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers in a bid to boost investment and revive economic growth. The energy profits levy (EPL), introduced in 2022 under Rishi Sunak amid soaring global energy prices, currently imposes an effective tax rate of 78 per cent on North Sea operators. The Treasury ...
Fawn and India Rose James, the granddaughters of late property and publishing magnate Paul Raymond, have received £23 million in dividends from the family’s billion-pound Soho property empire following another record year of rental income. The sisters inherited Soho Estates, which owns much of London’s West End, including bars, offices and restaurants, after Raymond’s death in 2008. Their combined wealth ...
The number of pensioners paying a punishing 60 per cent income tax rate has more than doubled in just three years, as frozen tax thresholds drag tens of thousands more older savers into higher tax bands. New figures from HM Revenue & Customs show that around 77,000 people aged 66 and over fell into the “60 per cent tax trap” ...
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst introduced legislation Thursday that would clear the way for Trump administration officials to sell underutilized federal buildings, Fox News Digital learned. ‘Despite President Trump calling federal employees back to work, vacant government buildings could easily be mistaken as future locations for Spirit Halloween stores,’ Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Digital. ‘For too long, ...
Parliament Street, one of the UK’s leading think tanks has today appointed Steven George-Hilley as its Director of Artificial Intelligence, in a newly created role. The news comes as the UK government signs a new deal with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to use artificial intelligence (AI) to increase productivity in the UK’s public services and key government departments. Areas ...