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Ratcliffe fights £18bn burden as vulture funds circle
Sir Jim Ratcliffe is once again fighting for survival at Ineos, as the industrial giant grapples with an £18bn debt mountain and an increasingly hostile debt market. Nervous bondholders have begun dumping Ineos debt at distressed prices amid a deep downturn in the global chemicals industry, opening the door forContinue Reading
The health benefits of swearing
Marat Jolon/Shutterstock.com You stub your toe on the bedpost. Before your brain even registers the pain, a word explodes from your mouth – sharp, loud and oddly satisfying. Far from being a simple slip in manners, swearing is a reflex rooted deep in the structure of the human body, drawingContinue Reading
Stranger Things star addresses ‘secret episode’ rumours as 280,000 fans sign petition over ‘cut scenes’
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent email Get the latest entertainment news with our free newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free newsletter A Stranger Things cast member has addressed rumours of a “secret episode” amid unfounded rumours that the latest episodesContinue Reading
International Personal Finance agrees £543m takeover by US firm
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 Consumer loans company International Personal Finance has agreed to a £543 million takeover by USContinue Reading
salary sacrifice tax raid alarms UK business confidence, CBI warns
A £5 billion tax raid on salary sacrifice pension schemes announced in Rachel Reeves’s Budget has emerged as the single most damaging policy for business confidence, according to new research from the Confederation of British Industry. Almost three-quarters (73%) of companies surveyed by the CBI said the move to levyContinue Reading
‘I celebrated winning Wimbledon title in Infernos and then met the Royal Family’
When you think of Wimbledon, you think of pristine grass, all-white attire, strawberries and cream, and Pimm’s. Not sticky carpets and cheesy pop music. But British duo Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool opted for the latter when they celebrated their historic Wimbledon win this summer. For the first time inContinue Reading
Bottled water drinkers ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles each year, study finds
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to a newContinue Reading
I worry for our rural economy
There’s a particular sound that stays with you once you’ve lived in the English countryside. Not birdsong, that’s too obvious, but the deeper rhythm of things: the tractor coughing into life at dawn, Chameau boots crunching on gravel, the hooves of the horses going out for a hack, the softContinue Reading
Ian Farley Chelmsford on Leadership, Operations, and Building a Career in Regulated Industries
Ian Farley is a Massachusetts-based operations manager with a career rooted in infrastructure, environmental oversight, and field leadership. Raised in Chelmsford, he learned early the value of discipline, teamwork, and accountability through school sports and time spent outdoors. Those foundations continue to shape his professional approach today. Ian began hisContinue Reading
Rejecting Measures That Harm Civilians
The growing comparison between today’s pressure on Venezuela and the 1903 European naval blockade is not rhetorical excess. It is historically and morally precise. What is being imposed on Venezuela today — through financial strangulation, de facto blockades, and sanctions designed to paralyse everyday life — is siege warfare byContinue Reading