Hachette UK Launches Raising Readers PSA To Tackle Global Reading Decline Amongst Children September 17, 2026 Raising Readers is Hachette UK’s worldwide social impact campaign to combat the significant decline in children’s reading for pleasure, the single biggest predictor of a child’s future success. Reading to a child for just 10 minutes a day changes their life.
Barclays staff revolt against tightened work from home policy September 17, 2026 Barclays is facing growing backlash from its own staff over a decision to tighten its home working policy. Thousands of staff have backed a call to exempt from the bank’s decision to enforce working in the office three days a week. Employees at the London listed bank have also demanded a one-off payment to offset [...]
GasEntec Receives Approval in Principle from Lloyd’s Register for 1 Bcf/d Multi-Mode Regasification System, Among the World’s Largest and Most Flexible FSRU Designs September 17, 2026 GasEntec, the global LNG technology and assets company, announced it has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register for the design of a 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) liquefied natural gas (LNG) floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) integrating a multi-mode regasification system. The AiP follows an independent concept-stage review by Lloyd’s [...]
Britain needs tax devolution, but beware of fiscal war September 17, 2026 Britain is an outlier for tax centralisation, but devolution can go badly wrong, says Tim Sarson Last week government front benchers and local leaders from across England got together at Number 10 North to discuss the details of a new Visitor Levy, or tourism tax. Quite a momentous moment in its own way, because this [...]
Sir James Cleverly: London needs its mojo back September 17, 2026 Council takeovers in Westminster and Wandsworth have offered the Tories a new confidence boost in London. Sir James Cleverly, once close to becoming party leader, speaks to Maurício Alencar about his ambition to lead the Conservatives into the next London mayoral election in 2028. Unprompted, Sir James Cleverly insists it’s “nonsense” that London is a [...]
Lattice Expands Secure Control FPGA Leadership with New Lattice Mach-N2 Family September 17, 2026 Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable and platform firmware leader, today announced Lattice Mach™-N2 FPGA family, extending its long-running secure control FPGA leadership with new devices purpose-built for system control and security in modern infrastructure. Built on the Lattice Nexus™ 2 small FPGA platform, Mach-N2 combines integrated flash, a hardware Root of Trust, [...]
Lattice Advances FPGA Design with New Leadership AI-Driven Development Tool, Lattice Prompt September 17, 2026 Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable and platform firmware leader, today introduced a new leadership AI-powered FPGA development tool for small and mid-range FPGAs that redefines how FPGA developers work across the full design flow. Lattice Prompt pairs with AI agentic tools developers already use, combining them with Lattice design tools, knowledge base, [...]
Andrew Griffith tells Burnham to rule out Budget tax rises September 16, 2026 Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith will urge Labour to rule out further tax rises on businesses at next month’s Budget, as the Conservatives set out plans to cut the compliance burden facing small firms and the self-employed. In his first major speech since taking the role, Griffith will call on Andy Burnham and chancellor John Healey [...]
Brightfin Names Dan McNamara Chief Customer Officer September 16, 2026 As Brightfin expands its platform and rides growing enterprise demand for IT spend control, the company taps Dan McNamara with a track record of scaling teams through rapid growth
London Tube exhibition celebrates ghosts of the Underground and screeching sound of tracks September 16, 2026 The ominous presence of a ghost at Bethnal Green Tube station, a melange of colour left behind from torn off posters at Bank and burly rain clouds cloaking Three Colts Lane. These are sights featured in the paintings in Jock McFadyen with Jem Finer’s Underground (and Surface) Exhibition now showing at the Guildhall Art Gallery. [...]