Explainer: Why e-scooters are London’s biggest fire threat March 30, 2023 What’s the biggest fire threat in London? You would think it’s kitchen electricals, cigarette butts still burning, or millennials leaving scented candles on. But you’d be wrong: it’s actually e-scooters and e-bikes’ batteries. The London Fire Brigade has warned the risk of these batteries exploding is the most pressing issue they’re facing in the capital. [...]
Britain’s big government is a winning hand in incentivising green technology March 30, 2023 The US might have the financial heft, but Britain benefits from a centralised government with the ability to make sweeping decisions to incentivise renewable technology across the country, writes Will Cooling.
As help to buy winds down, caps on savings schemes will only hinder home ownership March 30, 2023 Help to Buy, an equity loan scheme, helped hundreds of thousands of first time buyers get on the housing ladder, as it ends, it makes lifting the cap on Lifetime ISAs all the more important, writes Annabelle Williams
Failure after failure at the Serious Fraud Office has made a mockery of its mission March 30, 2023 Fraud cases are getting more complex and hard to deal with, but we can't underestimate another factor: the record of the Serious Fraud Office is far from perfect, writes James Forder
PMQs’ Sketch: Angela Rayner, Kim Possible and Dom Stoppable March 29, 2023 She’s your basic average girl, and she’s here to save the world.
Keir Starmer’s ban on Jeremy Corbyn has all but guaranteed he’ll win again March 29, 2023 Jeremy Corbyn being banned as a candidate for Labour at the next election is the best campaign footing he could have asked for – as an independent. He won the leadership against the odds in 2015 as an outsider within the party. Now he will be an outcast from Labour, but in reality, he’s still [...]
AI like ChatGPT and Bard are erasing women as it shows its developers’ bias March 29, 2023 ChatGPT automates the prejudices of our societies and delivers them with the confidence of a crypto salesman.
Yes, money can buy happiness and our well-being doesn’t plateau as we get richer March 29, 2023 The secret to happiness is...money. Recent studies have finally solved the debate on how to calculate what makes us happy, and indeed, it's having more funds, writes Paul Ormerod
Britain can’t match US green subsidies, but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the running March 29, 2023 We can't beat the US in terms of cash giveaways for green energy and innovation, but we can still use market-based solutions to compete in emerging green markets, writes Tom Thackray
Tax year end: Six ways to invest a £100,000 bonus March 28, 2023 Next week marks the end of the 2022/23 tax year, with midnight on 5 April the deadline for using available tax-free savings and investment allowances. Last December saw city workers awarded bumper bonuses and seven in ten City workers still expect their bonus to be as large as – if not ‘larger’ or ‘significantly larger’ [...]