With Morrisons already in a bidding war, UK supermarkets are attracting returns-hungry investorsSainsbury’s could be on the shopping list of private equity outfits as the race to buy Morrisons highlights the attractiveness of the big supermarket chains…
UK economy still faces major challenges despite return to ‘normality’ | Richard Partington
‘Freedom day’ was supposed to bring business as usual but Nando’s is out of chicken and carmakers are low on chipsFirst there were empty supermarket shelves and “pingdemic” staff shortages; now Nando’s is out of chicken and the car industry short of ch…
PCR Covid test firm with links to former minister accused of multiple failures
Exclusive: travellers let down by private providers are being forced to fall back on the taxpayer-funded NHS serviceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Covid-19 testing company co-owned by a former Labour justice minister and …
New owner could cut Channel 4’s Paralympics coverage, says ex chairman
State-owned broadcaster’s plans to cement its dominance ‘won’t add up’ for ‘profit-maximising’ entity• Wider, stronger, longer: Channel 4’s coverage will break Paralympic recordChannel 4’s successful decade-long mission to make the Paralympics a fixtur…
Home delivery and social media: how UK ice-cream sellers survived pandemic
Parlours and vans have survived a hugely difficult couple of years by adding a big scoop of innovationLast July, Filippo Mancini, a fourth-generation ice-cream maker, ran the Belly Banger competition from his shop on the esplanade at Prestwick beach in…
As the UK economy bounces back, do we sceptics need to say we got it wrong? | Willl Hutton
Many of us have been confounded by recent figures, but the British model remains flawedBritish capitalism seems to be on a roll. A million job vacancies were advertised in July, a new monthly record. Early signs are that unwinding the furlough scheme, …
テスラのロボット「Tesla Bot」のデモは、新技術発表にまつわる“真実”を示している
このほどヒト型ロボットの開発を表明したテスラ。発表会では白いボディスーツに身を包んだ人がロボットに扮するパフォーマンスを披露したが、このデモは新技術についての多くのデモにまつわる“真実”を示してもいる。
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Banking chiefs head for the hills in bid to leave cheap money behind
At the Jackson Hole bankers’ summit this week, the talk will be of ending quantitative easing – and this time it will be seriousIt is credited with preventing the worst global recession since at least the second world war from turning into something fa…
Ocado drivers ‘paid less than £5 an hour’
Workers on rapid delivery service see pay slashed as company’s profits skyrocketDrivers delivering groceries for Ocado are earning less than the minimum wage, the Observer can reveal.The drivers, who deliver orders for the online retailer’s rapid deliv…
The party’s over: China clamps down on its tech billionaires
The startling rise to wealth of the nation’s entrepreneurs has been an affront to Beijing’s political philosophy and increasingly, a threat to the communist partyIn a Politburo group study session on 23 November 2015, China’s president, Xi Jinping, rec…