Walsh: Anything shy of 2050 net-zero goal will be a failure September 27, 2022 Aviation boss Willie Walsh is calling on governments and industry regulators to commit to a net-zero goal by 2050. “I think anything shy of that will be viewed as a failure,” he told journalists on Tuesday afternoon as he talked about the ongoing International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) assembly in Vancouver. The UN body’s assembly [...]
Labour conference: Starmer finds his feet in a bid to look prime ministerial September 27, 2022 British people weren’t done with queuing today. They politely stood in line to enter the main hall at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool to hear Keir Starmer’s speech. There was, in fact, a queue for the queue to see Starmer, a feat the opposition party might’ve only dreamed of this time last year. The [...]
Starmer pledges new publicly owned energy firm as he says ‘this is a Labour moment’ September 27, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to create a new publicly owned energy generation company if Labour wins the next election as he declares this is a “Labour moment” like 1997 and 1964. Starmer said the new company would be called Great British Energy and that it would take “advantage of the opportunities in clean British [...]
Kwarteng tells City bosses that ‘we are committed to fiscal discipline’ September 27, 2022 Kwasi Kwarteng has told a group of City bosses today that the government is committed to “fiscal discipline” as the chancellor tries to calm markets and reassure the Square Mile. Kwarteng told them that “we are confident in our long-term strategy to drive economic growth through tax cuts and supply side reform”, and that he [...]
GWR engineers join rail workers and strike on 1 October September 27, 2022 Around 350 engineers will join colleagues working at Great Western Railways (GWR) as well as across the network and strike on 1 October over salaries. The union Unite said that, despite a current inflation rate of 9.9 per cent, GWR engineers were not offered a pay increase. Disruption will affect the operator’s depots and stations [...]
Web3 champion Opera to give browser users access to Elrond September 27, 2022 Web3 browser Opera says it plans to give users of its platforms access to the Elrond blockchain through an integrated wallet.
Unlock pension cash or start-ups will continue to flee, says Phoenix chief September 27, 2022 Pension cash must be freed up to flow into high-growth British firms or more homegrown startups will be driven overseas, the chair of pensions giant Phoenix warned today.
5m Brits have more than one job while double that number is looking for a side hustle September 27, 2022 More than 5m Brits are turning to a second or even third job to beat the cost of living crisis, while another 10m are considering it, according to new data out today from insurer Royal London. In fact, a separate study commissioned by GoDaddy shows that nearly one in three of firms that have under 10 employees are secondary [...]
The benefits of CBDCs, and designing a system that delivers them September 27, 2022 by Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant, examines how CBDCs offer significant benefits over traditional payment mechanisms.
John Witherow steps down as editor of The Times after almost a decade September 27, 2022 John Witherow is stepping down as editor of The Times with immediate effect after nearly a decade in the role.