Bussiness

British drivers paying highest diesel prices in Europe – except…

Posted by June 17, 2024

The cost of a litre of diesel in the UK is 8p more than the next-most expensive countries, Finland and Ireland, data collated b

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The EU has just put its car industry on the…

Posted by June 16, 2024

We can argue about whether the Chinese cars are subsidised by the state or are simply manufactured more efficiently by companie

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How the ‘woke capitalist’ gravy train came to a juddering…

Posted by June 16, 2024

McKinsey declared in 2019 that 90pc of America’s 500 biggest companies were now producing an ESG report – reams of paper me

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Asda to outsource staff to Indian company

Posted by June 15, 2024

Following the latest announcement regarding Asda’s outsourcing proposal, bosses are understood to have been inundated with qu

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Evening Standard to axe 150 jobs as it scraps daily…

Posted by June 14, 2024

It blamed the shift to home working and increased WiFi on the London Underground, which has hit the freesheet’s readership an

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Almost one million people claim mental health benefits since lockdown

Posted by June 13, 2024

The data showed that more working-age women are claiming Universal Credit for health reasons than men, though the reverse was t

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Labour is about to give Middle England a simple choice:…

Posted by June 13, 2024

Hiking CGT diminishes the incentive to save, leading to lower long-term growth and, ultimately, lower living standards. Since t

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Fed forecasts just one rate cuts this year as Powell…

Posted by June 12, 2024

The chairman of the US Federal Reserve has warned the battle to tame inflation is not over as policymakers signalled the centra

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Oil company abandons North Sea project over ‘negative political rhetoric’

Posted by June 11, 2024

In April, Harbour Energy, the North Sea’s biggest producer, said it would cut a fifth of its workforce because of the windfa

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Worklessness a ‘threat to growth’ after hitting 13-year high

Posted by June 11, 2024

Economists said the wage pressure reinforced the view that the Bank of England would wait until after the election before cutti

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Trump ally urges Jeremy Hunt to investigate Shein’s ‘slave labour…

Posted by June 11, 2024

The company has switched its focus away from a New York listing in response to fierce political opposition in the US. Mr Rubio

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British company accused of supplying NHS ‘faulty’ Covid tests pays…

Posted by June 11, 2024

Novacyt was paid to deliver 288,000 kits per week to the NHS at the height of the pandemic.However, concerns about the kit were

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