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Swinney’s response on oil and gas ‘is incoherent’
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The Scottish Government’s stance on oil and gas is “incoherent”, campaigners have claimed. First Minister John Swinney told MSPs on Thursday that his Government wasContinue Reading
Millions can’t afford to follow government’s stockpiling advice, research finds
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in More than three million households in the UK cannot afford the government’s recommended emergency stockpile, new research has found, sparking warnings that ministers are leavingContinue Reading
A quarter of Americans falsely link child vaccines and acetaminophen to autism, survey shows
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Many Americans still hold unproven and false beliefs about risk factors for autism, a large new survey reveals. A quarter of more than 30,000 adultsContinue Reading
Monty Don bids farewell to Gardeners’ World in moving final episode
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Monty Don has hosted his final episode of Gardeners’ World, bringing to a close a run of more than two decades on the BBC programme.Continue Reading
Suzanne Carlson on Running a Trucking Career Like a Business
Based in Oregon, she moved into trucking after working in warehouse operations, retail logistics support and dispatch assistance for a local transportation company, roles that gave her an early, practical understanding of how freight actually moves. That background shaped the way she approached driving once she earned her Commercial Driver’sContinue Reading
Skills Gaps Are Costly. Can a Training Management System Help?
Courses get booked by email, attendance lives in a spreadsheet, and certificates sit in someone’s inbox until an auditor asks for them. When the people who organise training are already stretched, it is often the first thing to slip. That matters more than it used to. A good training managementContinue Reading
Neets with mental health issues or neurodiversity better off in work than on benefits, Pat McFadden says
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Young people with mental health challenges or neurodiversity are better off working than on benefits, the Work and Pensions Secretary has said, as he promisedContinue Reading
Why Authentic Doesn’t Have to Mean Poorly Made
This change has revealed a difficult fact: authenticity is winning. But somewhere in the middle, many marketers adopted a dangerous belief: The fact that the content is authentic means that it must sound and look rough around the edges! The paradox is a disconcerting one because it upsets two conflictingContinue Reading
How UK Small Businesses Can Introduce Conversational AI on Phone Lines and Websites
That is the gap conversational AI is starting to fill for UK SMEs. Agents that can talk on the phone or chat on a website, answer common questions and take simple actions are no longer reserved for banks and big retailers. The trick is introducing them in a way thatContinue Reading
FTSE 100 index falls amid fears of AI slowdown
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in The FTSE 100 index fell by more than 100 points on Friday as investors continued to digest heavy losses on Wall Street. It finished 108.72Continue Reading