June 2024

In this column, former No 10 advisor Giles Kenningham analyses the worst comms screw-ups of the election campaign. So what took the prize for the worst PR gaffe this week?…

Extended tax breaks for former armed services personnel’s employers will be on offer in a new Veterans Bill, the Tories have announced in an election pledge to mark D-Day. Proposals…

Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell group has hit out at the “seriously flawed” procurement process that handed the National Lottery licence to Czech gambling group Allwyn Entertainment, a London court…

Engineering and consulting company John Wood Group has said it is engaging with Sidara after the Dubai-based rival submitted a fourth and “final” bid for the FTSE 250 firm. Sidara offered 230p…

Unseeded Mirra Andreeva, the 17-year-old Russian tennis sensation, sent tremors across Roland Garros yesterday with a brilliant 6-7 6-4 6-4 victory over second seed and two-time Grand Slam winner Aryna…

IT giant Accenture has stepped into the world of Major League Cricket, becoming principle partner of MI New York. The deal will see 2023 MLC champions MI New York feature…

Baillie Gifford, one of the largest asset managers in the UK, has been met with a wave of boycotts over its investments in fossil fuels and firms operating in Israel,…

Jeremy Corbyn has said Keir Starmer should stop “dissing the past” and claimed he would only offer support to a Labour government when it “does something good”. The former Labour…

Scottish Mortgage, the second largest investment trust in the UK, has warned that though the future for AI is bright, companies like Nvidia might not carry on bringing in the…

Lime has taken a page out of the “Uber playbook,” the chief executive of rival Voi has said, as the start-up’s rapid expansion brings it close to a monopoly over…