UK firms hiring over-50s to plug labour shortage
ALMOST three-quarters of UK employers are turning to retirees to fill vacant job roles.
According to research by LinkedIn, companies including easyJet, Halfords and McDonald’s...
As everything falls apart, UK tech sector shows resilience
THE UK’S fastest-growing sector, the tech industry, will maintain resilience despite the Covid-19 outbreak.
That optimistic claim follows analysis from recruitment firm Robert Walters. In...
Statement on Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi)
WASHINGTON, October 12, 2017 ‒ The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) donor countries today issued the following statement:
It is with great pleasure that we officially launch...
The easy sell: retail is the best industry for start-ups
RETAIL is — statistically — the best industry in which to start a business in the UK.
Analysis by cloud accounting company Ember shows that...
ECB launches new aid package to soothe effects of pandemic
By HAL WILLIAMS
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has launched a €750bn emergency package to buy government and company debt across the eurozone.
The temporary purchasing scheme...
Mhairi Black: The Baby of the House
In May 2015, newly elected Glasgow MP Mhairi Black travelled to London for only the second time in her life when she and 55...
Jingle of coins and rustle of banknotes: noises of the past?
By Hal Williams
IT’S A CONFUSING time for cash in Britain — maybe even crunch time in the run-up to the Budget.
The roll-out of limited...
Dramatic about-turn on legal cannabis has US states in turmoil and...
The American Green Rush to the newly legalised cannabis industry had barely begun when prohibitionist US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced, just days into...
The original Wolf of Wall Street
He was the man who Americans loved to hate, yet his achievements were revered. Selfish, unfriendly, single-minded and with a merciless desire to beat...
Cash isn’t dead — yet — but report warns that its...
Remember jingling coins in your pocket, and folding crisp banknotes into your wallet or purse? According to a new report, pretty soon all you’ll...
