Treating London and Manchester as rivals is absurd September 21, 2026 London's dominance is presented as a whirlpool, greedily sucking in talent from other regions. But London's growth aids Manchester, Birmingham and beyond.
GOV.UK founder warns Britain is ‘dangerously dependent’ on foreign AI September 21, 2026 Britain risks becoming “dangerously dependent” on a handful of foreign tech companies as AI spreads through businesses and public services, the founder of GOV.UK has warned. Mike Bracken, who founded the Government Digital Service and led the creation of GOV.UK, said organisations were steadily giving up control of critical systems as they turned to external [...]
Easyjet and British Airways criticise air traffic control operator on fresh flight chaos September 21, 2026 Easyjet and British Airways have questioned the resilience of the UK’s air traffic control system as British airports face another day of delays and disruption following a system failure earlier this month which grounded more than 2000 flights across the country. The two airlines and Jet2 have said the disruption raises questions over the system [...]
The battle to be the next Mayor of London has already begun September 21, 2026 While Sadiq Khan mulls his future James Cleverly and Reform’s Laila Cunningham are vying for votes in a traditionally Labour city, says Eliot Wilson When politicians often congratulate themselves on surviving until the weekend, voters can be forgiven for losing our long-term perspective. The next election for the Mayor of London will take place on [...]
Quectel Launches SE200ZC-AP Smart Module Bringing AI-Powered Vision to Security, Industrial, and Smart Home Devices September 21, 2026 Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global end-to-end IoT solutions provider, today announced the SE200ZC-AP, a new smart module designed to give manufacturers a faster path to AI-enabled cameras, industrial vision systems, and connected devices without the cost and complexity of building custom hardware from scratch. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260921524386/en/ [...]
London cannot afford an ‘Autumn of Discontent’ of Tube strikes September 21, 2026 The RMT has voted for further Tube strikes because TfL has offered them the wrong kind of four day week. It's normal Londoners that suffer.
London AI infrastructure firm Nscale files for $35bn US listing September 20, 2026 Nscale has filed for an initial public offering in the US, as it looks to tap into AI’s growing demand for infrastructure. The Nvidia backed AI cloud provider is targeting a valuation of up to $35bn. The group will also launch a retail offering for UK investors, allowing them to purchase shares via Retailbook. The [...]
Sydney Sweeney Novig ad backlash shows how much women’s sport has changed September 19, 2026 Top female athletes took control of the conversation around Sydney Sweeney and her ad for Novig, and that is the bit we should pay attention to because it represents real change, writes Matt Readman. A few years ago, I co-authored a report called The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketing Women’s Sport. The idea was to [...]
Ningbo FEED Meeting Confirms Full Confidence in Q1 2027 FID for Allied Biofuels’ US$6.1 Billion Presidential Decree-Backed SAF and e-SAF Project September 18, 2026 Allied Biofuels has held a major Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) meeting at Sinopec’s office in Ningbo, China, bringing together Allied Biofuels, Sinopec Engineering Group Co., Ltd. of China, Topsoe A/S of Denmark, Sasol South Africa Limited, and Plug Power of the United States — the principal international engineering and technology providers supporting its US$6.1 billion [...]
Drone strikes and noise disputes: The soaring risks of the global data centre boom September 18, 2026 As data centres scale, consume more power, and draw tighter community scrutiny, insurance risks are becoming increasingly complex. As AI infrastructure grows, so do legal risks: large lawsuits involving data centres more than tripled from four in all of 2021 to 14 in the first half of 2026, according to a Howden report. Planning and [...]