Is football eating itself? Not before it eats other sports first June 25, 2026 The World Cup has become so big that it now puts all other sports in the shade, laments Ed Warner. I remember the summer of 1976 as a swathe of bleached playing fields, jumpers for goalposts and pick-up games of cricket. There happened to be an international football tournament that June, but I defy anyone [...]
Is ‘Stop Reform’ now the most powerful force in UK politics? June 25, 2026 They may be dominating all the opinion polls, but have Reform hit a wall? James Ford considers if the party has peaked. Something is going very badly wrong for Reform UK. They are supposed to be the next big thing. The coming men. The heirs apparent. The real opposition. Yet, while they still top every [...]
Brexit ten years on: my journey from Remain to Leave June 25, 2026 I voted Remain despite having serious reservations about the EU. A decade on, I believe Brexit has strengthened Britain, says Nigel Biggar I am an icon of Brexit, it seems. In 2019, Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, contributed ‘Biggar vs Little Britain’ to a collection of essays entitled Embers [...]
Silverstone safe amid MotoGP calendar shake-up, chiefs insist June 25, 2026 MotoGP chiefs have insisted their Silverstone race is safe despite plans for a drastic shake-up to the motorsport’s calendar. After signing a major deal with the five manufacturers – akin to Formula 1’s governing Concorde Agreement – which formalises the commercial framework across the sport until 2031, MotoGP will now look to grow an organisation [...]
Exclusive: Russian ambassador was invited to box at Queen’s Club June 25, 2026 The Russian ambassador to the UK was invited to sit in a box at Queen’s tennis club during last week’s 2026 HSBC Championship, City AM can reveal. Andrey Kelin, who has been Vladimir Putin’s chief diplomat based in the UK since 2019, was photographed at the private tennis club in West London during the precursor [...]
City firms send workers home as heatwave melts London June 24, 2026 City firms have told their workers to stay away from the office this week as London is hit with a record June heatwave. Several multinational companies headquartered in the Square Mile have advised their employees to consider remote work in a bid to dodge the sweltering heat. Banking giant JP Morgan Chase is the biggest [...]
Taktile Secures $110M in Goldman Sachs-led Series C to Power AI Transformation in Financial Institutions June 24, 2026 Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives backs Taktile as a leading enabler of AI-driven efficiency and performance gains in banks and insurers.
Fifa World Cup brand value trebles to £4bn thanks to sponsorship and media rights June 24, 2026 The Fifa World Cup brand has grown in value to over $5bn after more than trebling in value in recent years, according to a new industry report. Consultancy Brand Finance estimates the World Cup brand is now worth $5.2bn (£4bn) – a 244 per cent increase on its value when the 2010 tournament was held [...]
IMU Biosciences Selects Waters to Advance Breakthrough AI Immune Mapping Platform to Transform Early Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Precision Medicine June 24, 2026 IMU’s AI platform unlocks unprecedented immune insights for cancer and other diseases, measuring 100M+ data points from a single blood sample, analyzed in real time.Waters Biosciences’ technologies, including BD FACSDiscover™ and BD Rhapsody™ Instruments, will be used with IMU’s AI analytics in research to deliver deeper, population-level disease insights.Partnership supports IMU’s expansion of its world-leading immune dataset through large-scale studies, establishing a new standard for immune profiling.
Pigment boss: ‘We’re replacing legacy players at the speed of light’ June 24, 2026 Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and chief executive of Pigment, said the company is replacing legacy enterprise software providers “at the speed of light”, as demand for AI-native business planning accelerates across the private sector. The Paris-headquartered platform, which helps companies including Unilever, Siemens, Anthropic and Coca-Cola run financial planning and performance management, is approaching $100m (£75m) [...]