Elon Musk denies affair with Google co-founder’s wife Nicole Shanahan July 25, 2022 Elon Musk pushes back against rumours that he had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife. It comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk’s alleged affair with Nicole Shanahan had caused a rift with Brin. Replying to the story on Twitter, the billionaire entrepreneur said the report was “total bs”. Musk added [...]
Sadiq Khan warns record court backlog has stretched London’s victim support services to ‘breaking point’ July 25, 2022 London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the UK government to take urgent action to tackle the court backlog, after warning the capital’s victim support services are “being stretched to breaking point”. In a letter to Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, the Mayor of London said delays of up to five years for rape and sexual [...]
Crypto Spot Volumes Reach Record Lows for 2022 as Bitcoin Miners Offload Their BTC July 25, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin moved sideways throughout the last week, starting at $22,000 and quickly surging to $24,000, before enduring a correction that took BTC right back to where it started. Ethereum’s ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, moved slightly upward, starting the week at around $1,500 and moving [...]
Reform London’s capital markets or jeopardise global status, review chief warns July 25, 2022 London is at risk of losing its status as a premier global stock market if it does not act fast to reform rules, the author of a review into London’s capital markets has warned.
Exclusive: Pensioners should get stamp duty break if they downsize home, house-buyers’ group says July 25, 2022 To ease the housing crisis, pensioners may be pushed into downsizing their homes and getting a tax break on stamp duty in return. The National Association of Property Buyers (NAPB) said the incentive would free up supply of housing and cool house prices, while also redoing the need for equity release. This comes after the [...]
Number 10 says Dover border chaos ‘not necessitated’ by Brexit July 25, 2022 Downing Street has said travel chaos at the Dover port over the past few days has not been “necessitated by leaving the European Union”. Boris Johnson’s official spokesman said “there are changes following leaving the European Union which we recognised and which we have planned for”, but that the long queues at Dover were not [...]
Crypto AM Daily in association with Luno July 25, 2022 Bitcoin steady at $22k ahead of US interest rate decision
Ryanair exec blames airports for travel chaos, arguing ‘they had one job to do’ July 25, 2022 Ryanair’s chief financial officer Neil Sorahan has blamed airports for the travel chaos, arguing they only had “one job to do.” “The airports themselves, they had one job to do and that was to make sure they have sufficient handlers and security staff,” Sorahan told the BBC’s Today programme this morning. “We managed to staff [...]
UK will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 July 25, 2022 UK will host the Eurovision Song Contest next year as the war in Ukraine lingers on. The news was first announced on Twitter, with the lookout for next year’s Host City beginning this week. The United Kingdom had a remarkable showing at the song contest, coming in second place and narrowly missing out on the [...]
Starmer vows there will be ‘no magic money tree economics’ with Labour July 25, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer has promised there will be “no magic money tree economics” with a Labour government as he vows to deliver “sound finances”. Starmer said in a setpiece speech in Liverpool that he would not be bound to the “nostalgic” thinking that government should direct business activity and that “modern industrial strategy is not [...]
