Sport’s hypocrisy: Claiming to be inclusive while charging prohibitive ticket prices October 23, 2026 Sport’s hiking of ticket prices for live sport is completely at odds with many of its marketing efforts and risks alienating future generations of would-be fans, writes Matt Readman. Last week, a BBC Sport investigation revealed just how sharply the cost of watching live sport has risen in the UK. Across the Ashes, the Open, [...]
Getting closer to the EU is a sop to Burnham’s socialist backbenchers October 23, 2026 Andy Burnham wants to undo Brexit because he’s given on the supply side reforms Britain needs for growth, says Joseph Dinnage October is always grim. The temperature drops, the rain begins and the darkness sets in. This month is poised to be even drearier than usual. In a week’s time, we’ll have John Healey’s first Budget. Healey [...]
Business needs to speak up in Britain’s battle of ideas October 23, 2026 Politics is about to get more stark and much more consequential. Business leaders need to be pragmatic, dealing with the government of the day. But it strikes me that in this battle of ideas, they need to stand up for what works – especially when the country we all love is going in the wrong direction, [...]
Allegion (NYSE: ALLE) Reports Q3-2026 Financial Results October 22, 2026 High-Single Digit Revenue Growth, Strength in Americas Non-Residential; Raising Full-Year 2026 Outlook Quarterly Financial Highlights (All comparisons are year-over-year, unless otherwise noted) Net earnings per share (EPS) of $2.59, up 18.8% compared with $2.18; Adjusted EPS of $2.60, up 13.0% compared with $2.30 Revenues of $1,172.6 million, up 9.6% on a reported basis and up 7.2% on an organic basis Operating margin of 24.3%, compared with 21.8%; Adjusted operating margin of 24.7%, compared with 24.1%
Budget 2026: Sainsbury’s boss urges Labour to tackle Neets crisis October 22, 2026 The boss of Sainsbury’s has urged the government to tackle the UK’s youth unemployment crisis, as he hit out at previous hikes to the cost of hiring workers. Simon Roberts, chief executive of the UK’s second-largest grocer, said John Healey must “focus on doing the right thing for young people” at next week’s Budget. In [...]
Sainsbury’s shares slide as ‘tough’ conditions slow growth October 22, 2026 Shares in Sainsbury’s tumbled after the supermarket giant posted slowing sales growth and warned that shoppers are facing “tough” cost-of-living pressures. The UK’s second-largest supermarket saw its stock slide by nearly four per cent in early trading to 346p. This came despite the firm lifting the lower end of its full-year profit target from £965m [...]
Ditching a damaging capital gains tax rise doesn’t make Healey a pro-growth Chancellor October 22, 2026 Although the government has ruled out raising Capital Gains Tax in the upcoming budget, Labour’s broader tax and spending policies remain economically damaging, uncompetitive, and fundamentally misguided, says Daniel Herring The government needs to find money for the upcoming Budget. Having ruled out the least damaging and broadest-based tax rises, Labour needs to resort to [...]
Budget 2026: Consumer confidence tumbles as Healey urged to slow ‘tsunami of costs’ October 22, 2026 John Healey has been urged to tackle the “tsunami of costs” facing firms as consumer confidence tumbled ahead of the crucial Budget next week. Brits’ confidence in the state of the economy worsened from -32 to -40 in October, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC)’s index, marking the third consecutive month of deteriorating sentiment. [...]
Healey’s fiscal ‘dilemma’ ahead of the Budget October 21, 2026 Forecasters sitting in a small office at the top of the Ministry of Justice building have had their work cut out this week. A week from the Budget, the headquarters for the Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent fiscal watchdog, is likely to be buzzing with staff members double-checking details and estimates in its crucial [...]
Bank of England set to overshadow Healey’s Budget with interest rate hike October 21, 2026 The Bank of England is expected to overshadow John Healey’s maiden Budget with a “done deal” interest rate hike aiming to tame soaring inflation while risking economic growth. Top City economists predict the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will raise the base rate at its November meeting, just one week after the Autumn Budget. [...]