I read 100 books in 2 years. Here’s what I learnt. December 24, 2025 As I write this, I am in the final days of the longest reading marathon of my life. In January last year, I set a challenge to read 52 books in as many weeks. Having (just) completed my goal, I set another to read 48 this year, to finish at 100 (journalists like round numbers). [...]
Best Football Betting Sites UK 2025 – Top 5 Ranked & Reviewed December 23, 2025 Football is the UK’s most popular sport to watch and bet on, but with many bookmakers available, choosing the best betting site can be difficult. This guide ranks and reviews the country’s top football betting sites, covering how to sign up, how we rank each site, the best options for different betting preferences, and much [...]
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Exclusive: NBA Europe to woo sponsors at swanky London summit next month December 23, 2025 The NBA will roll out the red carpet for a sales pitch to potential commercial partners of its proposed new European basketball league next month in London. Senior executives from the US sports behemoth will host the event at one of the capital’s swankiest hotels on 19 January, the day after the Memphis Grizzlies and [...]
Who made the naughty list in the wine world in 2025? December 23, 2025 This was another fascinating year in the world of wine, with some great initiatives and events celebrating the people who make this vital and brilliant industry tick. But there were also some things on my naughty list… read on to find out who made the cut. Nice List – Aldi Aldi’s wine department is fantastic, [...]
A matter of loaf and death: How to bake the perfect sourdough December 23, 2025 Standing in silence here at Bread Ahead in Borough Market, awaiting our instructions, you could have heard a pin drop. I am here taking a sourdough masterclass and attempting to breathe life into my creation, not to mention keeping my mother – the flour-and-water starter used to make sourdough – alive. Thankfully, the air here [...]
TikTok owner eyes $23bn AI spend amid Nvidia chip uncertainty December 23, 2025 ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, is set to significantly ramp up its investment in AI next year, as access to Nvidia’s chips once again becomes a key fault line in the global race. ByteDance is reportedly targeting around RMB160bn (£17bn) in capital expenditure in 2026, up from roughly RMB150bn (£15.7bn) this year, with the bulk [...]
Liquid Reply Joins the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to Advance Open, Trusted Agentic AI December 23, 2025 Liquid Reply, specialising in platform engineering and cloud-native technologies within the Reply Group, today announced that it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The newly established foundation was launched under the auspices of the Linux Foundation and provides a neutral, open governance framework for the development of agent-based AI systems. Members collaborate transparently to [...]
Is it time to invest in Asia in 2026? December 23, 2025 Over the last few months, investors and portfolio managers have taken renewed interest in Asia amid fears of an AI crash, seeking to diversify away from the highly concentrated Nasdaq, home to the Magnificent Seven stocks. With a large number of analysts remaining bullish on AI’s prospects for the next financial year, citing the sector’s [...]
HARMAN to Acquire ZF’s ADAS Business December 23, 2025 Secures HARMAN’s strategic foundations in ADAS and centralized automotive electronics platforms to define the fast-growing SDV market