GB Snowsport announces new partner with Olympics looming September 24, 2025 London headquartered insurance broker McGill and Partners has partnered with GB Snowsport ahead of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympic in February and March. The short-term deal will see the organisations partner up after a successful World Cup season for GB Snowsport, with the likes of snowboard cross racer Charlotte Bankes, skier Dave [...]
Top retail boss warns UK heading into recession September 24, 2025 The boss of AO World has warned that inflation, new red tape around hiring and higher taxes are quickly pushing the UK into a recession. “We’ve lived through a few recessions in the last 25 years – I think we’re heading into another one,” founder and CEO of AO World, John Roberts, told the BBC. [...]
Stalling Starling revs up Engine in rebrand September 24, 2025 Veteran of the UK fintech industry Starling has overhauled its brand with a fresh colour palette, a new slogan and even a new name. The digital lender announced last week it would drop the word “Bank” from its banking arm’s name in a move analysts have described as a “significant” step in its evolution. The [...]
Shared Ownership developers like Peabody are putting community first September 24, 2025 Ever since she moved into Peabody’s Motion development in Leyton, east London, Josephine has made a whole new and unexpected selection of friends. “I tend to spend the majority of my time on the roof terrace,” she says. “It’s massive, we have drinks up there and even hosted a Jubilee rooftop party. In fact, I [...]
Two sisters share their story of moving into a Shared Ownership property with SNG Homes September 24, 2025 Sisters Josephine and Baaba Oppong-Bimpeh moved into SNG Homes’ Icon Shared Ownership development in North London’s Burnt Oak in 2024 We purchased a 25% share of a ninth-floor apartment at Icon for £151,000, meaning we needed just £15,000 for our deposit. Buying through Shared Ownership provided a route onto the property ladder for us. The [...]
Generation ‘locked out of home ownership’ in UK housing crisis September 24, 2025 The ‘stark’ affordability crisis facing Britain’s would-be homeowners is locking a generation out of the market, according to a new report. The research – created by Skipton Building Society in partnership with Oxford Economics – finds 98 per cent of adults living with their parents cannot afford to buy a house in their local area. [...]
The Pimco boss who thinks philanthropy has a PR problem September 24, 2025 John Studzinski may be one of the City’s most senior bankers, but he is arguably best known for his exploits beyond the Square Mile and Wall Street; namely in the space of philanthropy. Ali Lyon talks to him about his aims to reshape the way people think about ‘giving’, and why he doesn’t like the [...]
Converge AI: Meet the UK tech decarbonising concrete with AI September 24, 2025 Concrete is everywhere; It’s in the roads we drive on, the buildings we work in, and the infrastructure that shapes the UK’s cities. Yet despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the hardest materials to make environmentally friendly. This is the challenge that British construction tech scale-up Converge AI, founded in 2014, is trying to [...]
Reform’s lessons from the Lib Dems in what not to do September 24, 2025 There’s more to the Lib Dems than Ed Davey’s ridiculous stunts. If Nigel Farage wants to turn his polling lead into lasting power he would do well to learn from their effective ground game – as well as their mistakes, says Emma Revell Reform UK is riding so high at the moment, pollsters might have [...]
Charlie Kirk: Ryder Cup is at risk of an assassination attempt September 23, 2025 The Ryder Cup is at risk of an assassination attempt in light of Donald Trump’s attendance and the recent shooting of Charlie Kirk, say US police chiefs. The biennial golf match between the US and Europe in New York is set to begin this week, with President Trump in attendance. Right-wing activist and Trump ally [...]