Comcast launches rival £22bn Sky takeover bid
Comcast has gatecrashed Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of Sky with a rival £22bn offer, sparking a bidding war for Britain’s biggest pay-TV [...]
April 2018
‘Beyond belief’: Brexit app for EU nationals won’t work on iPhones
A mobile phone app for EU nationals seeking to stay in the UK after Brexit – claimed to be as user-friendly as “an online account at LK Bennett” – will not work on iPhones, Home Office officials have [...]
Ireland expects Apple EU tax appeal to be heard in autumn
The Irish government will begin collecting €13bn (£11bn) in unpaid taxes from Apple, as it confirmed that its joint appeal with the US technology company against an EU ruling demanding the money be paid would be heard in [...]
Macron’s charm offensive on Trump is part of his bid to lead Europe
Can a 40-year-old French president, who gives sweeping speeches about Europe, singlehandedly save the global liberal order – and western democracy with it – by whispering into a the ear of a 71-year-old US president who has only contempt for the European project and the values it is meant to uphold? To ask the [...]
Want to know how far you have run? You might need to ditch your fitness tracker
A report from Which? has claimed that some fitness trackers and apps are so inaccurate that they could measure as many as eight miles too short, or too far, over the London Marathon course. So how can you measure how far you have really [...]
More Brexit defeats for No 10 in Lords amid reports of cabinet split
The government has suffered more significant defeats to its Brexit legislation in the House of Lords as the row over membership of the customs union threatened to split the [...]
EU officials dismiss City minister’s notion of UK sweetheart deal
A claim from the UK’s City minister that the EU is softening its opposition to giving the country’s financial services sector a special Brexit deal has been dismissed in [...]
Dozens dead in bombing at Kabul voter registration centre
A suicide bomber has killed at least 57 people and wounded dozens outside a voter registration centre in Kabul, in an attack claimed by Islamic [...]
City faces corruption crackdown as IMF investigates wealthy countries
The City of London will come under the spotlight of the International Monetary Fund as part of a crackdown on corruption that will investigate whether Britain and other rich countries are taking tough enough action against bribery and money [...]
Bitching about the ethics of giving money to the homeless helps no one
West Midlands police has been censured by the region’s police and crime commissioner, David Jamieson, and told to remove “insensitive” posters. These come with the message “Your kindness could kill” and depict a crime scene body outline, full of coins: giving money to rough sleepers could help them buy drugs [...]