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Brain drain latest: Brits quitting UK three times faster than thought

Economics

Fears that the UK is in the grips of a ‘brain drain’ escalated on Tuesday after fresh data revealed that than three times as many British nationals left the UK last year than officials previously thought. According to revisions made by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 257,000 Britons left the UK in 2024, over […]
HP pursues Lynch estate for £1.35bn as tech giant forks out £150m in legal bills

Legal

Private credit: Ponzi scheme or panacea?

Banking

Over the past decade, the private credit industry has ballooned from arcane financial solution to a core pillar of asset management. But recent tremors in corporate debt markets have led several economic institutions to warn of its risks to the global economy. Ali Lyon asks: how worried should we be? What kept you awake at […]

Keir Starmer may not survive this Budget

Opinion

The Prime Minister cannot satisfy all three key audiences: the markets, the party, and the public, says Helen Thomas Every Prime Minister faces a moment when economic reality collides with political promise. For Keir Starmer, Budget day could be that moment of reckoning. He promised calm after chaos: that the grown-ups were back in charge, […]

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Balancing motherhood and an Executive MBA: A Student’s Guide to Making It Work

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When Executive MBA student Rachel Knox discovered she was pregnant just three months into the programme, she suddenly found herself navigating one of the most demanding combinations imaginable: postgraduate study, a high-pressure career and impending motherhood. Instead of stepping back, Rachel embraced the challenge and in doing so uncovered just how transformative the journey could […]
How the Bayes Executive MBA Helped an Associate Director reinvent his career

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How an Executive MBA helped one finance leader drive global growth

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Opinion

Time to bring back the Great British exit

Opinion

Britain has no lack of ideas, founders or ambition but too often our successful start-ups lean on American giants when they exit. This isn’t inevitable, says Carolyn Dawson More than 100 companies are incorporated every hour in this country. British start-ups have raised more than $7bn in investment so far this year alone. Despite the […]
Rachel Reeves’s caution could prove as damaging as Liz Truss’s recklessness

Opinion

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UK Employment Rights Bill: Why will Starmer back unions over businesses?

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Checking into the real White Lotus season 3 hotel in Thailand

Life&Style

It had been an ordinary day of filming on The White Lotus season three at the Four Seasons Koh Samui, Thailand, until staff noticed two intruders with bleeding feet approaching the set, climbing over the dangerous rocks dividing the resort from the swathes of jungle. “I saw them coming by chance, with bleeding toes,” remembers […]
90 years of Penguin Books: The origin myth that may not be true

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Liverpool Street Chop House: Should you go over Hawksmoor, Boisdale?

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Sport

England Ashes fans set to top up Australia’s coffers months after bumper British and Irish Lions tour

Sport Business

England’s Ashes trip Down Under is set to help hosts Australia rake in £250m as British tourists prepare to top up Green and Gold coffers twice in one year. Five Tests in Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney starting on Friday are expected to draw 40,000 fans to Australia and contribute millions to both Cricket […]
Real Madrid eye £1bn injection to keep pace with Premier League elite

Sport Business

Abramovich hits out at UK government over frozen £2.3bn Chelsea proceeds

Sport Business

Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has criticised the government over moves that have “paralysed” his £2.3bn windfall from the sale of the Premier League club. Following the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian billionaire sold the Stamford Bridge club to a consortium fronted by American Todd Boehly, with the proceeds placed in a frozen bank account […]

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Why Sicily’s wine is some of Italy’s best – and which bottles to buy

Life&Style

A sun soaked tour of Sicily’s vibrant reds, zesty whites and a wine-making culture shaped by centuries of shifting influences Sicily is known for its dazzling coastlines, romantic ruins and for Europe’s tallest and most active volcano, Mount Etna. The largest island in the Mediterranean, it has been ruled by Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans and […]
‘Hey you guys!’ A Goonies 40th anniversary pilgrimage to filming locations in Oregon

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Nail your Couleurs to the mast at Haydock

Sport

SATURDAY brings the first Grade One of the season in Haydock’s Betfair Chase (3.00pm), which offers a first clue to this campaign’s Cheltenham Gold Cup hopefuls. Grey Dawning was second in this race last season, when run down at the finish by the ever-game Royale Pagaille in typically testing Haydock conditions. While the ground shouldn’t […]
Il Est Francais to fly the flag in Ascot’s 1965 Chase

Sport
Samar Kan shine Bright for Hayes at the Valley

Sport

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