Have your say on the proposed automated passenger services permitting scheme until 28 September 2025. first taxi-, private-hire- and bus-like services of self-driving vehicles can hit the road from spring 2026, following recent decision to fast-track pilots.
British Army showcase new technology that improves the accuracy of targeting enemies and reduces decision-making time for strikes. A pioneering digital targeting web, called ASGARD, has been showcased this week, following successful trials by British soldiers deployed on NATO's eastern flank.
Hyperinflation is the scare story threatened by those who want to stop government spending. But it's just that: a scare story.
Australia's recent defence changes offer valuable insights for the UK's newly announced Strategic Defence Review. Australia remains one of the UK's closest partners and in an increasingly dangerous world, working with our international partners has never been more important.
The UK and EU will lower the crude Oil Price Cap. UK and EU lower the crude Oil Price Cap, striking at the heart of Putin's oil revenues.
Healthcare workers are starting to get laid off! Worse is coming very soon..
This video is the fourth in our series on wealth — and the second asking a crucial question: Why are the wealthy wealthy? In this episode, I expose the uncomfortable truth: extreme wealth in Britain has not been built on innovation or hard work, but on exploitation. Of land.
More bad data about UK economy this week. How much trouble is economy in?.
On August 1, 2025, the U.S. imposed a 50% tariff on all copper imports—raw copper, cathodes, concentrates and alloys—under a Section 232 national security probe.
Rising levels of disability and unpaid care are concentrated in the poorer half of Britain, and action is needed to both level up the value of unpaid care and reduce the £3,300 income penalty these families face, according to new Resolution Foundation research published this week. Don't forget about us - the fifth report of the Foundation's Unsung Britain project, with support from JPMorganChase - examines how the rising prevalence of disability and unpaid care across Britain affects family incomes, and what can be done to boost their living standards.
The Scottish Housing Market Review collates a range of previously published statistics on the latest trends in the Scottish housing market. Sales Registers of Scotland data recorded the fourth consecutive quarter of annual growth in residential transactions in Q1 2015 (7.0%), which meant that across financial year 2024-25 transactions grew by 7.1%.
Hundreds of high skilled jobs are to be created in Sheffield after Walsin Lihwa (WL) announced a major investment that boosts the UK's steel industry and advanced manufacturing sector. Vote of confidence in UK steel and manufacturing as Taiwanese investor Walsin Lihwa brings new capabilities to the UK and expands its aerospace and energy materials portfolio.
The Government has announced a huge boost to UK industry as it powers ahead with its plan to cut electricity costs. Plans to slash electricity network costs for energy-intensive businesses by 90% are set in motion as Government launches new consultation.
Helen Dickinson, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: "Retail sales heated up in June, with both food and non-food performing well. The soaring temperatures increased sales of electric fans while sports and leisure equipment was boosted by both the weather and the start of Wimbledon.
UK economy and workers have benefited from the export credit agency's highest level of business ever. UK Export Finance provided a record £14.5 billion in new financing last year, helping over 667 UK companies to export and grow.
Almost £20 million funding was invested to help NRS communities grow and thrive in 2024/25. NRS has supported 149 projects to bring positive social change to benefit people living in communities across the UK - from Caithness to the tip of North Wales, down to the Bristol and English Channels.
Strict deadlines for landlords to fix unsafe cladding and over £1 billion allocated to make social tenants safe. New legislation will set strict deadlines for landlords to fix unsafe cladding or face the consequences.
Growth in private rents continued its recent slowdown, with rents rising by 6.7 per cent in the year to June 2025, down from 7 per cent seen in the year to May. However, rents have still grown far faster than wages over the past three years and created an affordability wedge for renters as a result, the Resolution Foundation in response to the latest ONS private rents data.
More people than ever are turning to second-hand products, according to the latest survey data by BRC-Opinium. This is the second year the survey has been conducted, with the proportion of people saying they had either bought or sold second hand items increasing in seven of the ten item categories measured.
CPI inflation exceeded expectations to reach an eighteen-month high of 3.6 per cent in June - 0.2 percentage points higher than expected. While forecasts from the Bank of England have inflation rising further in the autumn, continuing to weigh down on lower-income households struggling to cope with higher prices, according to the Resolution Foundation this week.
