Billionaire Larry Goodman Pushes to Reopen Cork Oilfield Amid Ireland’s Fossil Fuel Dependency Larry Goodman, the Irish billionaire, is intensifying efforts to revive oil exploration off the Cork coast through his company Barryroe Transition Energy, reigniting a long-running dispute over…
UK Think Tank Urges Fuel Duty Cut and Speed Limit Reduction to Shield Economy from Iran War Fallout A prominent left-leaning think tank is calling on the UK government to cut fuel duty by 10 pence per litre and reduce…
Thousands of UK benefit recipients face early payments and rate changes in May Hundreds of thousands of UK benefit and state pension recipients will see their payment dates shift in May due to two bank holidays, with some claimants also…
UK Financial Regulator Questions Whether APRs Give Borrowers a True Picture of Credit Costs Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a review of annual percentage rates (APRs), the standard metric used in credit advertising, after its own research found…
Britain’s Fish and Chip Shops Face Mass Closures as Energy, Oil and Fish Costs Spiral Thousands of British fish and chip shops are on the brink of closure as surging fuel, cooking oil and fish prices erode profits and drive…
A quantitative trading firm most people have never heard of generated more revenue last year than some of the world’s largest corporations. Jane Street, the secretive market-making giant, posted $39.6 billion in net trading revenues in 2025—nearly double its $20.4…
President Donald Trump’s new across-the-board US import tariff has taken effect at a rate of 10%, after the Supreme Court struck down a large part of his previous tariff programme last week. The 10% levy began at 12:01 a.m. in…
The European Parliament has paused its ratification process for the EU-US trade deal agreed last July in Scotland, postponing a scheduled vote in its International Trade Committee as uncertainty grows over new US tariffs announced by President Donald Trump. The…
A UK food system “tinderbox” could be pushed into crisis by a single major shock such as extreme weather, a cyber-attack or war, according to a new peer-reviewed analysis that maps how disruptions could cascade into shortages, price spikes and…
Top bank chiefs are being handed pay packets that look increasingly like the pre-2008 era. New disclosures from NatWest and Lloyds in the UK, and Citigroup in the US, show sharp rises in total compensation and bonus payouts. The jump…