Running a business is hard, but Tide makes it easier May 17, 2023 Claire Pedley, a 41-year-old mother of two, has one company with three phone lines. People will ring and expect to speak to a man “because obviously I don’t know anything about concrete”, she says. Claire likes to connect such callers to one of her alternative numbers and to hear the surprise in their voice when [...]
Signs of unemployment jump emerge in UK economy – and it won’t solve worker shortages May 17, 2023 There are some signs that Britain’s red hot jobs market is calming down. That’ll please officials at the Bank of England, who, remember, are trying to make people and businesses (on average) a bit worse off to tame inflation. Wage growth which, in cash terms, has been rising rapidly for around a year, didn’t spring [...]
Anti-protests laws and voter ID are a sure way to disillusion young Britons May 17, 2023 Protesting is a great way for young people to engage with democracy. If you take that right away, while making it harder for them to vote, you end up with youth disengagement, write Alastair Campbell and Maddie Smith
Firefly Sport EV: the electric sports car helping kids be safer drivers May 16, 2023 The Firefly Sport is an electric roadster designed to help children learn the basics of driving – and have fun in the process.
To win younger voters, Labour needs to weed out the anti-housing nimbys May 16, 2023 Labour wants to portray itself as the party of housing. But to succeed, Keir Starmer will have to manage nymbies on his backbenches, showing he's serious about building new homes, writes Elena Siniscalco
Level up your bank account May 15, 2023 Ever wished your bank would hurry up and join the 21st century? Starling Bank — with offices in London, Cardiff, Southampton, Dublin and now Manchester — is a rising star within the industry and it’s gaining a massive following by doing things differently. Designed to give depositors a fairer, smarter and more human experience, this [...]
Empowering Social Mobility: New college creating opportunities in Tech May 15, 2023 Watching and mentoring a struggling schoolboy through his A-levels gave Mark Smith, founder of Ada, the National College of Digital Skills, the idea of starting up his own college. From opening the Tottenham-based college in 2016 with around 30 students, in 2023 Ada – named after Ada Lovelace, a computing pioneer, will provide education for [...]
Former ballroom dancers light a candle on international trade May 15, 2023 In 2001 the Danish-born couple set up Sebnini, which specialises in luxury fragranced candles and diffusers. It has crowned recent growth in overseas sales with a King’s Award for international trade. The inspiration began when they started bringing candles for their own enjoyment back from Denmark to the UK. Although candles and scent diffusers are [...]
London brawling: Why the city has become a combat sports capital again May 15, 2023 Wrestling and MMA have followed boxing in staging huge shows in London this summer, cementing the city’s reputation as a leading destination for combat sports’ biggest events. An earthquake hit the world of professional wrestling earlier this month and its epicentre was London. All Elite Wrestling, formed to compete with the all-conquering World Wrestling Entertainment, [...]
Why the Bawah Reserve in Indonesia is your must-visit hotel hideaway May 14, 2023 “If you want attention, just lower your coconut,” grins the enthusiastic, affable young man who’s just showed me and my boyfriend to our villa. I don’t lower my coconuts for just anyone, but it turns out he’s telling me how my Do Not Disturb sign works, Bawah-style: it’s a pulley system attached to a coconut [...]