• April 22 2025
  Business InsightTechnology sector

  Sage needs to scale faster from Newcastle to the world

  The 44-year-old UK software company has regained confidence as it emerges from a turbulent decade

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• April 15 2025
  Business InsightFinancial services

  Millions have been left behind by the payday loans crackdown

  Evlo is relaunching but many subprime lenders have closed after a wave of compensation claims

  
• April 10 2025
  Lloyd's of London

  Lloyd’s of London is Britain’s strangest success

  The inimitable insurance market has to ensure it remains attractive in the face of global competition

  
• April 8 2025
  Business InsightUK universities

  Universities should not be greedy with technology spin-offs

  Letting software and life sciences companies emerge from research has long-term benefits for academic institutions

  
• March 27 2025
  Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc

  Ben & Jerry’s fudge has come back to bite Unilever

  The ice-cream maker’s strange legal agreement with its acquirer 25 years ago was bound to cause trouble

  
• March 25 2025
  Business InsightBritish Airways PLC

  British Airways tries to regain its halo with a new first-class seat

  The UK flag carrier has called again on the London design studio that created a revolutionary product

  
• March 18 2025
  Canary Wharf Group PLC

  Canary Wharf is turning organic in its drive to survive

  The finances of the London Docklands district have stabilised but it needs to transform quickly

  
• March 13 2025
  UK defence

  Industrial strategy turns from green to battleship grey

  Trump’s hard line on Ukraine and Nato poses difficult choices for the UK’s defence industry

  
• March 6 2025
  Thames Water

  Thames Water has to keep borrowing and carry on

  The public water utility cannot avoid a debt refinancing, despite the horrifying expense

  
• March 4 2025
  Business InsightDriverless vehicles

  British start-ups need a new road to driverless vehicles

  Oxa and Wayve are making hard choices in face of well-funded Chinese and US competition

  
• February 25 2025
  Business InsightLondon Stock Exchange Group

  The London Stock Exchange has been left behind by its parent

  While its equities platform suffers an exodus, the LSEG itself is a financial success story — with an identity problem

  
• February 20 2025
  Rail

  Do not let Great British Railways crush competition

  Labour will damage growth and innovation by curbing independent regulation of the rail network

  
• February 18 2025
  Business InsightLegal services

  Paul Weiss’s legal raid on London is a boost for the City

  The UK expansion of the quintessential New York firm is a long-term bet on the importance of English commercial law

  
• February 13 2025
  Drax Group PLC

  Drax’s power is not really green — but Britain needs it

  The UK government’s deal to retain the biomass electricity generating station is a painful but necessary compromise

  
• February 11 2025
  Business InsightSupply chains

  What the UK’s largest freezer tells us about future of food

  Automated stores run by global companies such as NewCold have become critical in keeping supermarkets stocked

  
• February 6 2025
  Competition & Markets Authority

  The CMA should be nudged on antitrust, not bullied

  The flaws of the UK’s competition regulator can be corrected without government interference

  
• February 4 2025
  Business InsightUK retail industry

  Itsu’s self-service lesson for retailers on what robots do best

  Many companies are considering greater automation as employment costs rise, but there are pitfalls

  
• January 29 2025
  Charlotte Tilbury

  Duping is the sincerest form of flattery for Charlotte Tilbury

  The British make-up artist behind the billion-dollar cosmetics brand must live with a wave of imitators

  
• January 24 2025
  Stephen Schwarzman

  Blackstone’s Schwarzman stirs London art market with record purchases

  Private equity chief spends millions on 18th century society portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough

  
• January 23 2025
  BP PLC

  BP is a victim of wishful thinking on fossil fuels

  The UK energy company trails Shell and others in value after years of offering investors false hope

  
• January 21 2025
  Business InsightArtificial intelligence

  Legal AI is reaching deep into the workplace

  Technology allows companies to automate drafting of many contracts rather than relying on lawyers

  
• January 16 2025
  Investment trusts

  Listen to the barbarian at the UK investment trust gate

  Boaz Weinstein’s assault on a historic financial sector reveals an opportunity for other investors

  
• January 14 2025
  Urban planning

  It takes imagination to regenerate a historic city  

  The 20-year transformation of a former Regency naval yard is changing Plymouth

  
• January 9 2025
  Technology sector

  The silent business of digital identity has remade Relx

  Company once known as Reed Elsevier has moved from legal and scientific publishing into AI fraud detection

  
• January 8 2025
  University of York

  Universities need new ways to make their research pay

  Public and private funding are both vital for institutions such as the University of York as international student fees fall