Sky to cut hundreds of UK jobs as broadcaster shifts focus September 16, 2025 Sky, the Comcast-owned broadcaster, is set to cut around 900 jobs in the UK as it shifts its focus from new product launches to enhancing existing services and competing with US streaming giants. Around 600 roles are expected to go in the group’s operations, the FT first reported, with the remaining staff potentially redeployed, depending [...]
Netflix reveals Crawford-Canelo drew fewer viewers than Taylor-Serrano September 16, 2025 Netflix says 41.4m viewers watched Terence Crawford beat Canelo Alvarez at the weekend, a smaller audience than the streamer pulled for a Katie Taylor fight last year. Underdog Crawford’s unanimous points victory over Canelo, for the undisputed super middleweight title, drew an estimated average minute audience of 36.6m watching live, rising to 41.4m when accounting [...]
Donald Trump to Keir Starmer’s rescue – or torment? September 16, 2025 President Donald Trump will look out of Air Force One’s windows to see England’s green and pleasant land before arriving this afternoon. He will surely be giddy with excitement about his meeting with the King and a very royal carriage procession inside Windsor Castle’s grounds tomorrow. He will also be pleased to see his unlikely [...]
Brady set for return to football field in Riyadh Season appearance September 16, 2025 NFL legend Tom Brady will return to the football field after signing a deal to appear in the 2026 edition of Riyadh Season. The seven-time Super Bowl champion and co-owner of English Championship side Birmingham City will join forces with Turki Alalshikh, digital sports platform Fanatics, OBB Media and Fox Sports to produce a flag [...]
State pension to rise by £560 in extra costs to Treasury September 16, 2025 The state pension is set to rise by more than £560 from April as wage growth figures used to calculate the increase will make the elderly the “big winner” from today’s economic data in another extra cost to Rachel Reeves. The triple lock uprating policy, which was introduced 15 years ago, means the pension increases [...]
Triathlon on the march: Why investors are piling into niche sport September 16, 2025 Anyone keeping a keen eye on the flow of private money into sports can’t fail to have noticed that, in among the multi-billion-pound football club acquisitions, white-ball cricket investments and putative new rugby competitions, triathlon has become a hot ticket. Ironman, the sport’s biggest brand, last week trumpeted what it believes is the single most [...]
How Saudi Arabia’s SURJ Sports Investment is reshaping the global sports sector September 16, 2025 Do you hear it? The chants of fans filling newly built stadiums. The roar of Formula 1 engines. The bright chorus of young Saudi women stepping onto fields and into leagues. These sounds are no longer echoes from other countries – they are the living soundtrack of a nation that is placing itself firmly at [...]
How AXA UK&I boss is building a £7bn insurance powerhouse September 16, 2025 If AXA UK&I was listed on the London Stock Exchange in its own right, it would be part of the FTSE 100, its chief executive Tara Foley has said. The AXA group is one of France’s best-known financial services firms, and its financials reflect this, having generated over €110bn (£95bn) in 2024. While back at [...]
The Notebook: I was a control officer during President Trump’s last state visit – here’s what to expect this September 16, 2025 The overriding priority during this week’s state visit by Donald Trump will be ensuring nothing goes wrong, unfortunately that means different things to both sides, says Michael Martins During President Trump’s last state visit, I was the landmark on Downing Street to show where the President’s car, the Beast, should park. That was the plan [...]
Rachel Reeves’ tax hikes are ‘taking Britain back to 1980s’ as investors turn their backs September 15, 2025 Britain’s jobs market is being hollowed out just like it was in the 1980s thanks in part to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ tax hikes, the chief executive of recruitment giant Reed has said, as the CBI warns the country is now seen as a less attractive place to invest than five years ago. James Reed said [...]