Blue Sky

Thames Estuary, Kate Willard

Thames Estuary plan for green development and jobs in south-east UK

THE UK government is backing the Thames Estuary as Britain’s biggest growth opportunity. With the claimed potential to create 1.5m jobs and add value of...
Real and fake Rolex watches

Phony products are a rip-off — time to get tough

Counterfeiting is getting more common and more sophisticated: what’s a brand to do...? By GEDIMINAS RICKEVIČIUS WHEN it comes to counterfeit goods or IP infringement, we...
Boris Johnson, UK PM, looking serious

The incredible Boris lets his imagination take flight

BV’s JASON AGNEW gives Boris Johnson a poke with a pointy stick, and considers the likely outcomes of Brexit — at this stage… IT’S A...
UK flag, Nvidia graphics card

The takeaway from UK govt’s chip order

THE UK government will spend £100m of taxpayer money to accelerate the production of computer chips. The aim is to build a national AI resource...
Cathay Pacific 747

Cathay Pacific losing altitude

Once held up as a benchmark of luxury long-haul air travel, the company’s determination not to jump on the low fair bandwagon looks like...
Artificial Intelligence

Masayoshi Son: Great Business Visionary, or Deluded Dreamer?

He’s won, lost, then won a fortune again. Now he has amassed the gigantic ‘Vision Fund’ from which to spread investment around the world’s...
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Autumn Statement

Chancellor’s Autumn Statement: What might it hold?

By ROB MORGAN IT’S THAT time of the year again, when policy ideas swirl around the money columns like leaves in the Autumn breeze. How...

International students flock to US university to unlock potential – and...

MIT, with its reputation for academic rigor and innovation, attracts graduate students from around the world. It can be worthwhile, it can be fun,...
Bus fuelled by coffee

Coffee means buses, fire logs, insurance: our new cup of tea

The grounds from your morning cup of go, converted to biofuel, means we get two sips at the cappuccino. JASON AGNEW reports THE announcement that...

Latest trade statistics show sterling not yet narrowing deficit

Responding to the latest official statistics, showing that the UK trade deficit widened from £6.9bn to £8.9bn between February and May 2017, Allie Renison, Head of...