The challenges facing barley farmers and Scotch distillers Whisky Global demand for Scotch appears to be holding up reasonably well, but there is clearly no shortage of supply. With bulging warehouses, distillers have cut production, causing real grief to the farmers and maltsters who supply them. Ron Emler investigates … This year’s British summer, the hottest on record, left a scorched trail down the [...]
KBRA Assigns and Affirms Ratings for DFMG Holding GmbH Business Wire KBRA Europe (KBRA) assigns its BBB+ ratings to DFMG Holding GmbH’s EUR 1,000 million senior secured notes. KBRA also affirms the issuer rating of BBB and senior secured ratings of BBB+ for DFMG Holding GmbH. The Outlook is Stable. GD Towers Holding GmbH (GDT) is a leading European tower company (towerco) that, through its wholly [...]
Wild Horse Nine review: Martin McDonagh plays the hits in crime caper Life&Style Wild Horse Nine | Dir Martin McDonagh | ★★★★☆ ‘Two bumbling hitmen contemplate life and death on an ill-fated holiday’ could be the synopsis of Martin McDonagh’s near-perfect 2008 debut In Bruges, but in this instance it is in fact a synopsis of his new film Wild Horse Nine. It’s fitting that his latest film [...]
Oil prices waver as Trump pushes for dubious Ukraine-Russia ‘ceasefire’ October 12, 2026 Oil prices remained above the $100 mark on Monday morning after President Trump hailed a deal with Russia’s President Putin that would lead to the supply of millions of barrels of diesel to the US and global markets. Brent crude oil futures, a benchmark for international prices, fell by about 0.6 per cent to $104 [...]
The Capitalist: On the dance floor at Tory conference October 8, 2026 This week’s gossip, whispers and City rumours in this week’s edition of The Capitalist ’80s HITS LIFT SPIRITS AT TORY CONFERENCEAt their party conference in Birmingham, the Tories tried their best to bring back the good times. Reporters who have been following the Conservatives for years privately joked that the labyrinth conference centre had about [...]
Could an exit from Europe bolster Tesco’s UK dominance? October 6, 2026 Like a student nearing the end of their gap year, Tesco has careened across Europe, Asia, even the United States, and is now preparing to return home and settle down. The supermarket chain, the UK’s largest, is weighing up whether to offload its operations in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with grocery rival Lidl [...]
KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings and Publishes Ratings for DFMG Holding GmbH October 5, 2026 KBRA Europe (KBRA) assigns its BBB+ preliminary ratings to DFMG Holding GmbH’s EUR [•] senior secured notes. KBRA also publishes the issuer rating of BBB and senior secured ratings of BBB+ for DFMG Holding GmbH. These ratings were assigned on an unpublished basis on 2 December 2025. The Outlook is Stable. GD Towers Holding GmbH [...]
New car smell: Taking the fragrant new Omoda 7 for a spin October 5, 2026 Can you bottle that new car smell? Adam Hay-Nicholls goes on a scent tour of the Cotswolds in the new Omoda 7 hybrid electric vehicle Could you bottle that ‘new car smell’, you’d be on to a winner. That’s the bracing odour of a bold financial decision. That odour is a cocktail of volatile organic [...]
Diesel crisis: UK minister holds emergency talks with US energy secretary October 2, 2026 Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is holding crunch talks with her American counterpart about an escalating diesel spat that has seen Treasury secretary Scott Bessent urge Europe to release emergency reserves “immediately”. City AM understands that Fahnbulleh is in direct contact with US energy secretary Chris Wright to discuss a US move to potentially choke off [...]
Tiberius Aerospace Secures $500 Million Sceptre Contract Establishing First Scaled Deployment of Defense-as-a-Service October 1, 2026 U.S.-U.K. technology collaboration connects allied partners through GRAIL, sharing development risk, strengthening sovereign manufacturing and mobilizing the innovative power of Western free markets.