Category: Business

Sky UK is squaring up to Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ in the battle for viewers by increasing its number of original British shows by 50% and releasing a new, exclusive film every fortnight, including a Danny Boyle-backed biopic about the Britpop record label Creation Records. Fuelled by Britain’s appetite for bingeing on new shows during […]

Only Frank Underwood could amass as much power in such a short space of time. Nearly eight years after Netflix used House of Cards as the launch of its global empire, the streaming service announced last week that it now had more than 200 million subscribers. The pandemic has hastened the company’s transformation from a […]

Worried about whether the yoghurt, milk and cheese sitting in your fridge is still safe to eat? Rather than rely on the misleading “best by” date stamped on the side, perhaps its time to “sniff and taste” your staple foods. That’s the aim behind a new initiative to fight the UK food-waste mountain, by reducing […]

The cancellation of Glastonbury 2021 is a huge disappointment for the 210,000 music lovers who had booked tickets, and has sent tremors of concern through the events industry. But it is also devastating for hundreds of local businesses, clubs, charities and thousands of individuals who face disastrous losses of income because the extravaganza is not […]

The Labour party has called for the government to invest billions of pounds in the UK car industry to help it recover from the coronavirus pandemic and to push forward the transition towards electric cars. The stimulus for motor manufacturers envisaged by Labour would be on a similar scale to the support given by Germany […]

Elon Musk has made so much money from Tesla that he is now the richest person on the planet. However, the second-biggest winners are investors in an Edinburgh-based investment fund that began backing Musk’s electric car company in 2013. Baillie Gifford’s investments in Tesla have made an extraordinary $29bn (£21bn) for investors including pension funds, […]

The full scale of Britain’s jobs crisis is being underestimated because hundreds of thousands of people are being missed by official unemployment figures, Gordon Brown has warned. At least 300,000 out-of-work people across the UK are being missed by official figures, according to a study backed by the former prime minister. He warned that it […]