The trade conflict between Canada and the United States is heating up and has moved beyond rhetoric. After the latest round of negotiations failed, the US imposed 50% tariffs on around C$27.6 billion (£14.68 billion) of Canadian goods on August 22. Canada is responding swiftly with dollar-for-dollar retaliation to take effect on September 8.
Accountants are often portrayed sitting at a desk studying financial reports. alphaspirit.it / ShutterstockWhen asked to think about accounting, most people imagine numbers, calculators, spreadsheets and offices populated by smart-suited bean counters hunched over reports. You most certainly think about money.
Nokia still makes Android mobile phones Andrew SozinovEurope’s relationship with American technology increasingly resembles an addiction. The patient knows it’s bad for them but cannot quite bring themselves to break it, because they don’t not know where to start. And yet everyone agrees that the longer the addict waits, the higher the price of the addiction becomes.
Virgin Trains will start running to Europe from 2030 Alex DanielsBritain’s rail regulator has given Virgin Trains approval to access HS1, the high-speed railway between St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel. This is another step towards Virgin running trains to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam from 2030.
ET Tisomboon/ShutterstockAs climate change makes extreme weather more frequent and intense, floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and storms are increasingly disrupting the roads, railways, airports and waterways.
Protestors have opposed plans to redevelop the former Truman Brewery site in east London. chrisdorneyPlans for a new data centre on the site of a historic former brewery in east London prompted significant local protest.
BearFotos/ShutterstockWhen something breaks down, like a washing machine or television, you might find yourself in a showroom or flicking through 12 browser tabs, trying to choose between “eco-friendly” or “green” replacements. They look and cost the same, yet we currently have no way of knowing which claim, if any, is true.
Sport is the new battleground in the streaming wars. But it’s not action on the field they’re tempting us with.
New prime minister Andy Burnham’s to-do list just keeps growing. In many regards, he has wasted no time in setting out a vision for the government that puts clear distance between himself and his predecessor Keir Starmer. But despite this, amid a summer of record-breaking heat and devastating wildfires, he is still to say anything substantive on the climate issue.
New rights for gig workers are set to be introduced next year. Eder PaisanEmployers in certain sectors will have been concerned to read reports from the UK government that the costs of promised reforms to “zero hours contracts” under the Employment Rights Act 2025 may be anything up to £2.9 billion.
The changes, due to be implemented in early 2027, are designed to redress what are seen as “one-sided” working arrangements under which workers bear all the financial risk of fluctuations in demand for their labour.
