The United Kingdom gambling industry has long been viewed as the standard bearer for the sector as a whole. Its success has been built around the fact that people in the UK love to gamble – sports, casino games, bingo, lotteries – you name it, they will wager on it. […]
Top Most Pointers on How to Become Rich with No Money- Wealth Building Tips Anyone Can Do
Making money without having any is one of the greatest (but most basic) financial secrets ever discovered. It’s like making rabbits out of thin air. It seems implausible at first look. But if you take a closer look, you’ll see how simple the method is. What if you wanted […]
‘Mona Lisa’ racing car sells for a record breaking £115m
A rare Mercedes-Benz racing car known as the Mona Lisa of cars has been sold by the company for a record £115 million. The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, one of only two of its kind, is a sister car to racing legend Sir Stirling Moss’s record-breaking open cockpit […]
Concerns surrounding UK Government data skills and technology infrastructure remain
New research has revealed that only one in four civil servants believe their department is following the Government’s National Data Strategy, with skills and technology infrastructure likely to be significant barriers to the strategy’s effectiveness. Eighty-six civil servants from major Government departments including HMRC and the Home Office were surveyed […]
Huge gains of wealthiest Brits should be taxed more to help households with cost of living crisis
As Sunday Times Rich List shows record number of UK billionaires, their gains should be taxed the same as income from work Huge increases in wealth at top during pandemic shows how ‘wealth often begets more wealth’, think tank says Calls for redistribution through higher taxes on income from […]
Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer clash over online tax plans
A battle is shaping up between major retailers over whether the UK should introduce an online sales tax, with Sainsbury’s demanding it to help revive struggling high streets while M&S argues it would have the opposite effect. A day before the government’s three-month consultation on changes to business taxes closes, […]
Executive pay system is broken, says Church of England’s pension board
The system of executive pay is “broken”, the Church of England’s pension board has said, as it challenged more companies to ease the pain of soaring inflation by committing to paying workers the living wage. On the day retailer Next approved a 50% pay rise for its chief executive, Adam […]
Cornish pub receives framed apology from Vogue publisher after name row
A country pub has received a framed apology from a fashion publishing giant after being threatened with legal action unless the landlords changed its name. The Star Inn at Vogue was sent a cease-and-desist letter by Vogue’s publisher, Condé Nast, which claimed a link between the two businesses was “likely […]
Death of the office greatly exaggerated, but will never be as busy again
The boss of one of London’s biggest landlords has conceded that offices will probably never again be as busy as they were before the pandemic. Businesses have changed the way they operate, Toby Courtauld, chief executive of GPE, acknowledged, although he is also adamant that those who predicted the “death […]
UK’s order books are filling up fast, CBI industrial trends survey finds
UK manufacturers have reported the joint-strongest growth in orders since records began and the fastest increase in output since July, according to the latest CBI’s industrial trends survey. The order book index, which measures how much orders are above or below normal, rose to +26 in May from +14 in […]