In the US, the Authors Guild and 17 individual authors, including Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen, are pursuing a more traditional American form of protest by suing OpenAI and Microsoft for ...

US President Donald Trump has frozen all foreign aid payments, while Elon Musk is putting America’s biggest development agency, USAID, “through the woodchipper”. Meanwhile, the UK government has just ...

Stripe has shot back to a valuation of more than $90bn, in a sign of rebounding fortunes for financial technology businesses that have been boosted by a surge in demand from artificial intelligence ...

UK MP Mike Amesbury has walked free after his prison sentence for punching a constituent was suspended by a judge on Thursday. Amesbury, who represents Runcorn and Helsby as an independent MP after ...

Crystal Palace chair Steve Parish has accused the UK government of putting English football into “complete paralysis” with its plans to introduce a new independent financial regulator.

Labour will use the geopolitical crisis to defy its own members about the new priorities for a rearming economy ...

French energy group Engie has warned it could switch investment from the US to other countries unless it receives clarity on ...

What are the risks of another outbreak of boardroom exuberance? The trigger points are never identical but there are three things to look out for.

The number of asylum seekers housed in hotels has risen sharply since Labour came to power as asylum applications hit a record high in 2024, underscoring the challenge facing the UK government as it ...

Merit’s rise up the corporate agenda has been fuelled by a powerful cheerleader: Donald Trump. As the US president took office, he said he sought to build a “society that is colour blind and ...

When anyone over 30 who’s not dressed as an elven archer wields that term, they mean it pejoratively. Only a child, a ...

The authors suggest one possible culprit: increasing urban incomes. Time is money, and so the opportunity cost of hanging-out rose. Then there’s the smartphone. Our potential companions are no longer ...