The Enhanced Games sporting experiment will prove short-lived May 29, 2025 The Enhanced Games aims to shake up sport by allowing performance enhancing substances, but Ed Warner argues the concept will be short-lived. Man dives into a pool wearing a full racing bodysuit. Swims a single length of front crawl. Alone. Is rewarded with $1m for breaking the world record. Could this be the dullest clip [...]
Does cricket have Olympic future in Brisbane and, maybe, India? May 29, 2025 Team GB may put forward a cricket team for the LA 2028 Olympic Games, but with Australia and potentially India hosting next does the sport have a long-term future? Over a decade ago at the London 2012 Olympics Welshmen Ryan Giggs, Joe Allen, and Neil Taylor joined the likes of Daniel Sturridge, Micah Richards and [...]
‘Magic Circle’ law firms trying to distance themselves from the prestigious phrase May 29, 2025 'Magic Circle' is a term that has long been used to describe the elite law firms; however, within the circle, the mood is shifting around this esteemed phrase
How capitalism will conquer space May 29, 2025 The world’s first trillionaire will be the head of a space-based business, predicts Rainer Zitelmann Space is the most undervalued industry in the world. It is particularly unappreciated in Europe, which has now fallen hopelessly behind the United States and China. The US carried out 153 launches last year, China 68 and Europe three. The [...]
Can banning ‘bare beating’ force people to wear headphones on the tube? May 29, 2025 ‘Headphone dodgers’ who listen to music on the tube with the sound up are easy to hate but ‘bare beating’ is a problem that is harder to solve than you think, argues James Ford Public transport is often seen as an inherently good thing. Done well, transport policy can be a silver bullet that solves [...]
Mark Kleinman: AA float needs smart pricing to avoid breakdown May 29, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Here’s a candidate for toughest IPO mandate in the City: return the venerable AA, the UK’s biggest breakdown recovery service, to the public markets roughly five years after it was taken private for a fraction of [...]
Keir Starmer hits back at Reform’s ‘fantasy’ economic policies May 29, 2025 Keir Starmer has hit back at Nigel Farage’s “fantasy economics,” after the Reform leader laid out a suite of fresh policies aimed at attracting voters away from Labour. In a speech to workers in the North West later today Starmer plans make the case against Farage’s economic credibility, likening the proposals to the Liz Truss [...]
Heathrow’s story goes up in flames May 28, 2025 Every weekday morning I’m up and ready to receive an important email that comes in at 6.30am. The email is sent by the producer of Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show on LBC, and it contains an initial plan for the stories that I’ll discuss with Nick on air exactly an hour later. It’s a slick routine [...]
Billionaire tech entrepreneur joins non-dom exodus May 28, 2025 The billionaire founder of one of Britain’s top fintechs has quit the UK for Monaco, becoming the latest super-rich foreigner to flee the government’s crackdown on non-doms. Guillaume Pousaz, who started payments firm Checkout.com in 2012, changed his country of residence to the France-adjacent tax haven in April, according to Companies House filings, to avoid [...]
Heathrow ‘responded well’ to power outage despite sleeping CEO, report says May 28, 2025 Heathrow Airport “responded well” to the power outage incident in March despite its chief executive sleeping through a key decision on whether to stop operations, an internal review, commissioned by the airport, found. More than 200,000 passengers around the world faced disruption as Heathrow opted to stop operations following a fire at the nearby North [...]