For the past few years, the AI revolution has largely depended on one thing that most people rarely think about: the cloud. Ask ChatGPT a question, generate an image or analyse a document and, in most cases, the request travels across the internet to powerful computers in a distant data centre.
A significant change to the relationship between employers and trade unions is coming into force under the Employment Rights Act 2025. From October 2026, trade unions will gain a new statutory right to access workplaces to meet and support workers, represent them, recruit members, organise union activity and help facilitate collective bargaining.
Royal Navy warships and helicopters spent 21 days on operations monitoring Russian activity in UK waters and the North Atlantic throughout July. Maritime operations to monitor Russian activity up 25% across the first seven months of the year.
The Poor Pay More: Is Britain's Discount Economy Becoming Unfair? Tesco is currently offering customers who spend at least £60 in-store a fuel discount of up to around 8p a litre. It is a perfectly normal supermarket promotion but it also highlights a much bigger problem.
A pensioner can find their State Pension added to their wages, private pension or other taxable income. A student can earn money from work while receiving a maintenance grant that is not normally taxable.
For many people now over 50, the route into a career was simple: leave school, get a job, learn the trade and work your way up. Today, young people are increasingly expected to obtain qualifications before they can even get through the employer's front door.
Marriage, relationships and family have traditionally been the main reasons people share a home. But as housing, energy and everyday living costs continue to rise, could a very different form of cohabitation become increasingly common — people living together simply because it makes financial sense? It might sound like an unusual idea.
Britain has spent decades encouraging more young people into universities. Germany has maintained one of the world's best known apprenticeship systems, while China has built an enormous vocational education sector alongside its universities.
Britain has spent two decades trying to repair its public finances, raise more revenue, control spending and manage an ever-growing national debt. Yet the underlying economy has become remarkably weak.
AI as Your Personal University: Could People Build Their Own Education Without Going to College? For centuries, education has largely followed the same pattern: go to school, go to college or university, obtain qualifications and then enter the workforce. Artificial intelligence is beginning to challenge that model.
Over the past 50 years Britain has sent ever more young people into further and higher education. But has the country actually become more skilled or have we simply created a system where a degree is increasingly required to get a job that once needed no degree at all?.
Andy Burnham's latest focus on high streets reflects a growing political consensus: town centres matter, shops are closing, and something must be done. Burnham has spoken about making high streets "the symbols of Britain's renaissance" and has highlighted the need to tackle vacancy and decline.
Defence Secretary on his first visit to Scotland tours Babcock’s Rosyth facility and Service Family Accommodation in Edinburgh. On his first visit to Scotland as Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting has today underlined the nation’s vital role in the UK’s defence.
Another view of Wick town centre for those of you who do not live in Wick. The £2million project to change the surrounding is complete.
Over the past two years, reports of job cuts, restructuring programmes and course closures have become increasingly common across the UK higher education sector. A widespread perception has emerged that universities became overly dependent on international student fees and are now paying the price as overseas recruitment falls.
The new government's plan to devolve employment support could transform the way people out of work are helped but Scotland has already been experimenting with a more local approach. Could Burnham's English reforms eventually put pressure on Scotland to go further? There is an interesting development taking place almost unnoticed beneath the much bigger political stories.
CMA proposes that Aldi and Lidl should be covered by the same land agreement rules as the UK’s largest supermarkets to ensure customers get the best choice of where to shop. CMA proposes to prevent Aldi and Lidl from blocking rival supermarkets opening close to their stores.
"I never go to museums. I don't visit art galleries.
Edinburgh’s festivals provide a “global platform” for Scotland as well as the artists who take part in performances, the Deputy First Minister has said. Jenny Gilruth will attend the opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival – All Rise – tonight along with Public Finance Minister Hannah Mary Goodlad.
When America says a deal is almost done, Iran says there is no deal and everyone is trying to work out which way the oil tankers are going, perhaps it is time to ask the Cheshire Cat for directions. Alice found herself in Wonderland with a rather familiar problem.