Are ministers ignoring the AI copyright crisis? May 26, 2025 The UK government recently rejected a House of Lords-backed amendment to the data bill for the second time, intensifying a stand-off between policy makers and the creative industries over the role of copyright in AI development. At the centre of this dispute is a provision, introduced by Baroness Beeban Kidron, that would require AI firms [...]
On this day: May 26 1896 — the first Dow Jones Industrial Average is published May 26, 2025 Charles Dow was a financial journalist with a rare gift. A high school dropout from rural Connecticut, he was able to explain the arcana of investment, stocks and bonds in clear, straightforward terms. In 1882, he and two other journalists, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser, founded Dow Jones & Company Inc. in a basement at [...]
What happens when a cyber attack hits a business? May 26, 2025 Over the last two months, cyber attacks on household names have been lighting up the headlines across the UK, but what happens behind the scenes?
As Labour chases Reform, they’re bleeding votes on the left May 25, 2025 Just two weeks after Reform UK’s local election triumph, the government announced a major crackdown on immigration. But while Labour scrambles to neutralise the threat from the right, it risks losing another, just as substantial, cohort to its left, argues Fonie Mitsopoulou. The electorate doesn’t love Labour at the moment. Recent polls indicate that of [...]
Lanza-grotty? Hardly! Why Lanzarote is actually rather fabulous May 24, 2025 “David Cameron tucks into five-star hotel buffet in Lanzarote,” read a headline in The Mirror in 2016. Lingering over details like the then Prime Minister’s “all inclusive wrist band” and the resort’s “£230 a night price tag”, the newspaper’s clear implication was that Cameron was luxuriating in a paradise no ordinary Brit could aspire to. [...]
EU trade chief calls for ‘mutual respect’ after Trump tariff threats May 24, 2025 The EU’s trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic said the bloc will secure a trade deal with the US in “good faith” guided by “mutual respect, not threats”. US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap 50 per cent tariffs on all EU goods sent to the United States. After a call with US trade representative Jamieson [...]
I’m on a mission to bring Californian tech culture to the UK May 24, 2025 To save the UK's tech scene, some Californian magic is needed, writes Sean Kohli, who discovered his entrepreneurial spirit in the Land of Milk and Honey.
Express has a Super chance to get back on track for Size May 23, 2025 IT WAS only a few weeks back that 12-time champion trainer John Size looked well on his way to securing a record-breaking 13th title after saddling eight winners in April, putting daylight between himself and the chasing pack. Since then, however, the stable has struck a sticky patch with only two wins this month, and [...]
New regions take the whisky world by storm May 22, 2025 Whisky Business: City AM’s monthly look at the world of whisky. World Whisky Day, on 17th May, has taken on a new importance in recent years. Indeed, the most exciting trend in whisky right now is the sudden proliferation of whisky coming from outside the traditional markets. It wasn’t too long ago that drinkers would be [...]
The FA Cup is still magic – and now this Crystal Palace fan can die happy May 22, 2025 Long-suffering Crystal Palace fan Ed Warner savours his team’s moment in the sun, praises the FA for retaining the cup’s essential magic, and hopes his team don’t get too used to it… Toss a coin six times. The odds of it coming up heads every time is 1:64. Enter the FA Cup in the third [...]