Thousands of shoppers and football fans were forced back to notes and coins on Tuesday night after a power outage at Worldpay, one of the world’s largest payment processors, knocked out card transactions at pubs, supermarkets and restaurants across the country. The disruption could hardly have come at a worseContinue Reading

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Britain has shed £74 billion of goods exports since Brexit and tilted ever more firmly towards a services-led economy, according to new research that throws cold water on hopes of reindustrialising the country, an ambition recently set out by Andy Burnham. The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, found that someContinue Reading

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The FTSE 100 edged lower on Tuesday, held back by weak miners – while freshContinue Reading

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The Silicon Valley investor John Doerr, an early backer of Google and Amazon, has written the second-largest cheque in a $40 million funding round for Isometric, the London-based industrial certification firm. Doerr, the billionaire chairman of Kleiner Perkins, the California venture capital firm, invested in a personal capacity alongside theContinue Reading

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As governments in high-obesity countries ramp up efforts to improve nutritional health, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are increasingly in the firing line, giving policymakers a highly visible target through which to project resolve. Leading the global anti-UPF movement, US Health Secretary and ‘MAHA’ architect, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revealed earlier thisContinue Reading

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