Record waiting time: Brexit triggers tsunami of trade mark applications as UK firms rush to protect intellectual property January 17, 2022 Brexit has triggered a record number of applications for trade marks in the UK, with 195,000 registered in the past year, up 54 per cent from 127,000 the year before, according to data shared with City A.M. today. Waiting times for trade mark applications reached three to four months in the early part of 2021, [...]
Second homeowners who flipped holiday home set to pocket £191m despite upcoming crackdown January 17, 2022 About £191m of new pandemic grants from the Government is coming to second homeowners’ pockets, for those who flipped their holiday homes into letting businesses. The revelations come despite a new crackdown, announced at the end of last week. Councils across England have started distributing £635m in grants to businesses affected by the Government’s Plan [...]
Record number of UK workers take employer to court for refusing flexible working requests January 17, 2022 The number of Employment Tribunal decisions relating to flexible working has increased by 52 per cent to reach a record high of 193 in the past year, up from 127 in 2019-20, according to new data shared with City A.M. this morning. The number of claims relating to flexible working requests may be being driven [...]
Banking star and former Lloyds chief Antonio Horta-Osorio resigns at Credit Suisse after damning probe into personal actions January 17, 2022 Well-known global banker Antonio Horta-Osorio, the former boss of Lloyds Banking Group, has resigned as chairman of Credit Suisse after less than 12 months following an investigation into his personal actions. Antonio Horta-Osorio, who steered lending giant Lloyds back into private ownership after its 2008 financial crisis bailout, said in a statement issued by Credit [...]
Army to take control as govt plans to order Royal Navy to stop Channel migrants and fly asylum seekers to Rwanda and Ghana January 17, 2022 The Prime Minister is planning to slow the flow of migrants into the UK by calling in the army and fly asylum seekers to a number of African countries, including Ghana and Rwanda, to process their applications there. According to a report in The Times this morning, Boris Johnson plans to give the Royal Navy [...]
Russian invasion of Ukraine ‘inevitable and imminent as Putin has negotiated himself into a corner’, UK Defence Committee chair warns January 17, 2022 A Russian invasion of Ukraine is “inevitable and imminent”, the UK’s Commons Defence Committee chairman Tobias Ellwood has said. The Conservative MP made the claim in the wake of a massive cyber attack on Ukraine which left much of the country without heat, light and access to money. Speaking to the Daily Mail about the [...]
Covid is ‘crashing’ as Omicron increasingly acts as a natural vaccine: Mild or no coronavirus symptoms yet all the antibodies January 17, 2022 Covid scientist are increasingly convinced the Omicron variant is acting as a natural vaccine for tens of millions of people around the world as most infected people have no or very mild symptoms, yet their bodies do produce full antibodies. Many countries are currently seeing record numbers of infections, including the UK, US, most of [...]
Calls for Boris Johnson to resign grow louder as Downing Street gears up to sacrifice key staffers January 16, 2022 The Prime Minister is reportedly preparing to oust members of his inner circle over the partygate affair as another Conservative MP called for him to resign. Boris Johnson is devising a policy announcement blitz and a cull of his top team as he looks to survive the publication of senior civil servant Sue Gray’s report [...]
Chinese government extremely nervous as Omicron lands in Beijing with Winter Olympic Games only weeks away January 16, 2022 The Chinese government confirmed this morning its first local Omicron infection in the country’s capital Beijing, according to state media, weeks before the Winter Olympic Games are due to start. The infected person lives and works in the city’s north-western district of Haidian and had no travel history outside of Beijing for the past two [...]
UK farmers face bankruptcies and closures as £1.8bn in EU cash stops with MPs warning ‘blind Brexit optimism’ may lead to higher food prices January 16, 2022 Direct agriculture funds of around £1.8bn per year will be cut by half in 2025 and completely dry up by 2027, under new government plans. As the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) no longer applies to British farmers following the UK’s departure from the EU, MPs warn in a new report for ‘blind Brexit optimism’ [...]
