Price of Bitcoin and Ethereum holds the line amid wider market instability October 3, 2022 The Bitcoin price continues to move horizontally, hovering around $19,000 and showing a slight bump of 1.5% growth in the last week.
FTSE 100 falls after dramatic 45p U-turn, as pound erases gains against dollar October 3, 2022 The pound pushed higher on Monday morning after the government said it would scrap its planned 45p income tax cut, while the markets dipped in response to the dramatic news. Sterling leapt by as much as one per cent against the US dollar to $1.12 early on Monday morning while teetering back slightly after a [...]
NFL is back in the capital as London hosts 31st American Football game September 30, 2022 When the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints clash on Sunday at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, it will be the 31st NFL game to be played in London in which no more than one of the sides took a winning record into the fixture. The Vikings are two and one this season with a points [...]
Roc Nation Sport president: ‘Change in rugby needs to happen now’ September 29, 2022 Rugby is at a crossroads between growth and crisis point ahead of next year’s World Cup, according to Michael Yormark, president of Jay-Z’s agency Roc Nation Sports. Amid a series of financial woes threatening the sport – not least in England, where Premiership clubs are fighting for survival – there is a consensus among new [...]
Broadband giants told to do more as eight million homes struggle to pay bills September 29, 2022 The media regulator has called on broadband firms to do more to help struggling households, as more than eight million homes struggle to pay their bills. According to a new Ofcom study, nearly a third (29 per cent) of customers are having problems paying for their phone, broadband, pay-TV and streaming bills, doubling since 2021 to the highest figure [...]
Ed Warner: Reform the FA to avoid the burdens of a sport regulator September 29, 2022 Can you name the new Minister for Sport? Turns out it’s Stuart Andrew, MP for Pudsey. Let’s hope he’s a sports fan as there’s nothing publicly available to say that he is (or indeed isn’t). And so the door to this most junior of ministries revolves again. And at a time when a number of [...]
Truss and Kwarteng face Tory backlash as they refuse to back down over tax plan September 28, 2022 Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss are facing open rebellion from parts of the Tory backbenches as MPs call for the pair to make a dramatic U-turn on their tax plan. Some Conservative MPs are already anonymously briefing to media outlets that the chancellor should be sacked, while one, Simon Hoare, broke cover to say the [...]
Data watchdog takes action against Virgin Media and six public bodies over information request failings September 28, 2022 The UK’s information watchdog has taken action against Virgin Media and six public bodies over their repeated failures to respond to members of the public when asked to hand over personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the seven public and private sector bodies had repeatedly failed to respond to Subject Access Requests (SAR) [...]
Government has a second chance – it can’t fluff its lines yet again September 28, 2022 The UK Economy: Apocalypse Now? Black Wednesday, Mark 2? Not quite. But if social media’s hot takes on the state of the UK economy are wide of the mark, the pressure on Kwasi Kwarteng and the Bank to restore credibility is now immense. The good news is that will not be as difficult as some [...]
Fleet Street giant Tony Gallagher named new editor of The Times September 28, 2022 Fleet Street legend Tony Gallagher has been named the new editor of The Times, taking the reins from veteran John Witherow as the paper pushes forward on both print and digital fronts. After serving as deputy editor since 2020, Gallagher, 58, said this morning that he was “enormously proud” to take up the top spot, adding that the [...]