Wes Streeting: Progress on NHS delays as private insurance soars January 22, 2026 Employer-provided health insurance coverage has reached a 30-year high, with 4.8m people now covered, as businesses ramped up employment benefits amid the NHS backlog. UK health insurers paid out a record £4bn in 2024, averaging £11m every day, according to new figures by the ABI. Despite NHS data showing that the waiting list fell by [...]
How something as simple as walking could change your life January 22, 2026 Chef and food writer Bettina Campolucci Bordi tells us how the simple pleasure of walking has improved everything from her sleep to her relationship with her kids I’ve just come back from a walk. Nothing heroic or straining. No matching outfit, no tracker, no goal other than getting some fresh air and moving my body [...]
Ask the expert: I’m a higher rate taxpayer. Where can I save that won’t result in a big tax bill? January 22, 2026 Fidelity International personal finance specialist, Marianna Hunt, helps a taxpayer looking to lower their tax bill. Q: I’m a higher rate tax payer and likely to become an additional rate taxpayer. I currently hold both a cash and stocks and shares ISA. I also have Premium Bonds and a healthy amount in pensions. Where can [...]
Booking a ski holiday? This is the unmissable grande dame this season January 22, 2026 Refurbished Suvretta House is the ultimate base for a 2026 ski holiday, writes Adam Hay-Nicholls Had it been director Wes Anderson who’d adapted The Shining for the silver screen – rather than Stanley Kubrick – the fateful Overlook Hotel might have looked something like St Moritz’s Suvretta House. Imagine that Walt Disney and Baron Münchausen [...]
Djokovic co-founded player group seeks $1bn backing for new tennis tour January 22, 2026 The lobby group co-founded by Novak Djokovic, the Professional Tennis Players Association, is seeking up to $1bn in investment to back its proposed shake-up of the professional circuit. According to multiple reports, the PTPA has contacted more than 20 banks and financial advisory firms to drum up support for its vision, which includes a new [...]
Nigel Farage: Reform will tax the banks even if they don’t like it January 22, 2026 Nigel Farage has confirmed Reform will slap a tax on the UK’s banking giants in the latest dramatic escalation of his party’s tensions with the City. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Davos, Farage said: “This will be tough for banks to accept but I am sorry – the drain on public finances [...]
Prem Rugby signs free-to-air broadcast deal with ITV January 22, 2026 Prem Rugby has extended its deal with ITV to keep England’s top flight league on free-to-air television. The partnership will see the broadcaster show seven matches per season, including the final. It continues a longstanding agreement between the two organisations, with every match each season also broadcast on TNT Sports. The move solidifies the free-to-air [...]
Young’s ditches AIM as pub chain eyes FTSE 250 inclusion January 22, 2026 Young’s has become the latest company to unveil plans to quit London’s small-cap stock market as the pub giant sets its sights on inclusion into the FTSE 250. The Wandsworth-based business said it will apply to join the main market of the London Stock Exchange, in a move which it said will “enhance the company’s [...]
Football regulator may have popular support but many will be disappointed January 22, 2026 The Independent Football Regulator will not be the panacea for all of the English game’s ills that some are hoping for, says Ed Warner. To a stimulating conference titled “The Independent Football Regulator: challenge or opportunity?” There I found myself a minority voice in an echo chamber of regulatory advocates. An opening poll of the [...]
Legal accounts controversy: Who should fund the broken justice system? January 22, 2026 First, the government tried to go after the LLPs, but that failed. Now its eyes are on law firms’ client accounts under the narrative that it will be used to help the crumbling justice system, but lawyers are seeing it as just another tax raid. Law firms earn substantial income from interest on client accounts, [...]