Festivals get longer licences and red tape cut in £45m music plan
The small businesses behind Britain’s live music industry have been handed a rare piece of good news, as the government’s first long-term music strategy promises...
$300 a kilo: space cargo costs falling faster than steam ever did
Sending cargo into orbit is getting cheaper faster than shipping freight did during the steamship revolution of the 1800s, and the cost could fall by...
EU buying record Russian LNG volumes with total ban looming – FT
The bloc absorbed nearly all of the Yamal project’s output months before a 2027 import ban is due to take effect, according to the outlet...
Monzo founder Blomfield joins Anthropic as AI talent war escalates
Tom Blomfield, the entrepreneur who built Monzo into Britain’s best-known digital bank, has been hired by Anthropic, the artificial intelligence group behind the Claude AI...
Scrap National Insurance and the 45p rate, think tank tells Burnham
Andy Burnham should abolish national insurance, stamp duty, inheritance tax and the 45p top rate of income tax if he wants to revive Britain’s stalled...
Scrap green levies to cut energy bills by a fifth, Burnham told
Andy Burnham will walk into Downing Street next week with an in-tray already overflowing, but business has told him exactly where to start: energy bills...