HM Revenue & Customs has fired a fresh warning shot at Britain’s flexible workforce, urging an estimated 700,000 umbrella workers, and the agencies and end-clients that engage them, to steer well clear of a rapidly growing scheme that claims, falsely, that personal IOUs can be used to settle a taxContinue Reading
Belgian neurotechnology business ReVision Implant has closed an oversubscribed €4 million funding round, in a deal that pushes one of Europe’s most ambitious brain-interface ventures out of the laboratory and into the early stages of clinical work. The raise, drawn entirely from private investors, attracted both existing backers and aContinue Reading
Goalhanger, the production house behind some of Britain’s most successful podcasts, has formally moved into the venture business. The company has unveiled Goalhanger Ventures, a new investment and partnerships arm designed to back creator-led media businesses with credible plans to scale across video, audio, social, live and commercial channels. TheContinue Reading
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email Oil prices rose again on Tuesday after US military strikes in southern Iran shattered hopes of an imminent peace deal. Positive noises about peace talksContinue Reading
Ask any experienced runner about the moment they found their shoe, and the answer is often the same: everything changed. Not dramatically, not overnight, but in the accumulating way that the right equipment quietly removes friction from something you do repeatedly. Running is a sport of repetition. A recreational runnerContinue Reading
Turkey has become a top global destination for medical tourism pretty quickly, and this is particularly true for cosmetic surgery. It has an outstanding reputation for excellence in cosmetic surgery, and thousands of international patients visit every single year. Currently, one of the most sought-after procedures is breast augmentation, withContinue Reading
Running a children’s home in England means living under a level of scrutiny that most businesses never experience. Ofsted’s oversight is relentless, and rightly so. The stakes are extraordinarily high. Yet despite how central inspection is to the sector, a surprising number of myths persist about how the process actuallyContinue Reading
Food waste isn’t only a sustainability problem anymore. It’s starting to look like one of the more obvious economic leaks in the global food system, and leaks add up fast. Every time food gets tossed, there’s a whole stack of costs buried inside it, land and water, fertilizer and feed,Continue Reading
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