It was the moment British entrepreneur Rich Pleeth had been dreading, but he knew it was coming, so he was prepared for it. “We’re all in,” the U.S. investor told him. “But we’ll need you to become a Delaware C corp.” Make no mistake: Pleeth, the co-founder of Fin Sustainable Logistics, was thrilled with the...
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Paralympics 2024: GB lose men’s wheelchair basketball final to US
Great Britain take silver as United States retain wheelchair basketball title
Paralympics 2024: Great Britain’s Hannah Cockroft wins T34 800m gold
UK PM Starmer visits Dublin to flesh out ‘reset’ with Ireland, EU
Body Shop’s remaining stores saved after rescue deal struck
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Body Shop’s remaining UK stores saved after rescue deal agreed
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Sicily yacht sinking: live update
UPDATES with more details on the search and coastgard. Divers and an underwater drone searched Wednesday for six people, including a British tech tycoon and international banker, believed trapped when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily. The six people still currently missing following the accident are: British technology tycoon Mike Lynch Hannah Lynch, Mike’s 18-year-old...
Who is Mike Lynch? The British ‘Bill Gates’ missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily
Once dubbed the British “Bill Gates”, tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is among those missing since Monday after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a sudden storm. The sinking came the same day as Lynch’s former close colleague and vice-president of finance at Autonomy, Stephen Chamberlain, also died in a freak coincidence having...
Labour takes governing seats as UK parliament returns – World News
LONDON A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressing MPs as they meet for the first time since Britain’s general election at the House of Commons in London on July 9, 2024 Britain’s new lawmakers excitedly squeezed into parliament Tuesday with Labour sitting on the government‘s side of the chamber...
U.K.’s overflowing prisons present PM Starmer with early crisis
LONDON – The scale of the challenge facing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new government is writ large in Britain’s prisons, which are within weeks of being too full to accept new inmates, leaving the government with unpalatable and costly choices. Britain has western Europe’s highest rate of incarceration, according to the World Prison Brief database...
Labour win in U.K. election would likely mean continuity for Asia
Despite its strong campaign focus on domestic issues, Britain’s opposition Labour Party is unlikely to turn its back on the Indo-Pacific region should it win Thursday’s general election. If polls are correct, the party will win the vote by a thumping margin, putting an end to 14 years of successive Conservative-led governments as the country...
U.K.’s Rwanda migrant plan may never get off ground
LONDON – The controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda may never get off the ground, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that there would be no deportations before a national election in July. After taking office in October 2022, Sunak made the plan to send migrants who...
Ukraine refugees face dwindling job opportunities in the U.K.
Merely weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the British government mobilized to offer asylum to people fleeing the conflict. Now refugees are struggling to find the high-quality jobs that their qualifications deserve. As the Russo-Ukrainian war grinds into its third year, visas issued to first arrivals are approaching expiry just as the U.K. labor...
Big Tech is pouring billions into British AI investments—but the U.K. risks becoming a sidekick to U.S. tech giants
Microsoft’s plan to open a new AI hub in London is a huge endorsement for the U.K. as a world leader in AI. But I do question whether it is wholly good news for the long-term. The U.K. has shown time and again that some of the very best AI expertise in the world lies here. The pool of talent...