WRITER Makes Agentic AI Economically Sustainable at Enterprise Scale With Palmyra X6 Release and Major Harness Upgrades August 13, 2026 New releases bring powerful agents to marketing and revenue workflows, with the cost-efficiency, reliability, and control enterprises need as adoption grows
War and tax: How the UK economy could get knocked off course August 13, 2026 Labour ministers may have some reason to be cheerful about the UK economy’s performance. Torsten Bell, the pensions minister who has long desired top jobs in the Treasury, lambasted “gloomsters” shortly after official data revealed growth in the second quarter of the year was 0.4 per cent. Even Rachel Reeves, who has remained largely silent [...]
Not enough bums in Brum: Why so many empty seats at European Athletics Championships? August 13, 2026 Britain loves sport yet ticket sales for the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham have been slow. Ed Warner wonders why. British sport has a capacity problem or a bandwidth one, depending on which way you want to look at it. Too many seats in too many venues with too few bums to fill them. Or [...]
Could a ‘land blocking’ rule change spell danger for Aldi and Lidl? August 13, 2026 German discounters Aldi and Lidl have rapidly taken control of the UK’s budget grocery market in recent years. But could new curbs on ‘land blocking’ slow their insurgency? Only a few decades ago, Lidl and Aldi were oddities. By 2008, the German discount supermarkets had been in the UK for more than 10 years but [...]
NewC Sport Strengthens UK Set-Up with Darryl Lindo as Commercial Lead August 13, 2026 NewC Sport has appointed Darryl Lindo as UK Commercial Lead. This marks a key milestone in the company’s expansion within British football and the wider sports industry, fostering lasting connections between clubs and fans. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260813094846/en/ With five years of ticketing experience and a strong tech [...]
Devolution should mean regions competing for investment August 13, 2026 The next phase of devolution should focus less on how funding is distributed and more on how growth is rewarded, says Gus Wiseman For more than 30 years, governments have tried to rebalance England’s economy by directing funding towards regions outside London and the South East. Many of those programmes have delivered worthwhile projects, but [...]
Vibes matter with tax, so here’s how Healey can deliver a feel-good Budget August 13, 2026 We may think it is easy to try to predict how a major tax announcement may impact sentiment based on whether it’s a give or a take. but the evidence shows, there’s no clear correlation between tax cuts and positive reaction, or tax rises and negativity, says Tim Sarson I’ve just come back from a [...]
Let’s go to the wall to stop graffiti August 13, 2026 They say what gets measured gets managed, but no one is documenting the volume of graffiti blighting our streets and degrading civilised society.. until now, writes Neil O’Brien I hate graffiti. I hate the way it makes places ugly and unsafe. I hate the middle class morons who think it is “creative” – but know [...]
Banning vape shops won’t fix scuzzy high streets August 13, 2026 Andy Burnham’s plans to revamp high streets by cutting down on vape shops aren’t ambitious enough, says Joseph Dinnage Andy Burnham is taking his hand to cleaning up Britain’s high streets. Commenting on the degradation of our urban centres, Burnham said that many areas have been “hollowed out”, and that the high streets we grew [...]
Inside Paul Pogba’s Saudi camel racing club Al Haboob August 13, 2026 Last year Paul Pogba invested into the Al Haboob camel racing club in Saudi Arabia. Matt Hardy goes behind the scenes with its founders. Over 1,000 years ago the warring tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, eager to stake their claim to the region’s limited land with access to its surrounding seas and gulfs, used to [...]